Pam Keith Celebrates Recovery After Receiving Specialized Care from The Denver Hospice and Support of Family

Pam Keith was born and raised in Denver.  In 1983, Pam joined the Army and was deployed from Fort Bragg to Iraq where she served in operation Desert Storm.

Pam remained in the Army until 1992.  Following her military service, Pam started a program with the Veterans Administration – helping veterans transition back into life following service and attaining employment.

She helped veterans with mental illness, substance abuse and those with disabilities and, in the course of her time with the VA became a “life coach”.

In March of 2022, Pam became gravely ill, with a damaged liver, gall bladder infection and kidney failure.  In August, doctors were preparing Pam to go home with hospice care.

Hospice care was something Pam was aware of as she had become familiar when an uncle needed hospice care and she toured The Denver Hospice’s inpatient care center.  She found the inpatient care center peaceful and calming

When she was referred to hospice herself, she transferred from the VA hospital, in Aurora, to The Denver Hospice inpatient care center

With the help of her husband of 30 years, Sean, and family, Pam began to show signs of improvement and was allowed to go home.  Her husband and family would not let her “give up” and helped her to exercise when possible.

Within three months she was walking again, eating on her own and learning to take care of herself.  Within months of being referred to the inpatient care center at The Denver Hospice, Pam was discharged from hospice care – no longer needing end-of-life care.

It took a team of family members to bring her back to where she is and she “finally felt loved” and “in control of her life”.