Mayor Steve Bach presented the Palisades at Broadmoor Park with a Spirit of the Springs Award Monday afternoon in recognition of the groundbreaking partnership between the privately owned senior housing facility and UCCS.
The Spirit of the Springs Celebration Award is intended to recognize noteworthy achievement that has brought great honor and pride to the City of Colorado Springs or has been distinguished at a state, national or international level.
Bach presented the award to Jeff Dunn, principal, Dunn and Associates, Inc.; Toby Gannett, executive director, Palisades; Sara Qualls, Kraemer Family Professor of Aging Studies; Amy Silva Smith, associate professor, Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences; and Mary Ann Kluge, associate professor, Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences. The award recognized the eight-year partnership between Dunn and Associates and UCCS to develop an integrated model of fitness and wellness promotion for seniors.
The unique collaboration was recently described in “The Gerontologist” published by Oxford University Press.
In February, Palisades was recognized by the National Home Builder’s Association with a gold award for its integration of technology into the senior living community and a silver award for its fitness and wellness program. The Palisades won the Colorado Springs Gazette’s “Best Senior Housing” award the past three years as well the paper’s “Best Chef in Colorado Springs” award in 2012. The Palisades also received the Gazette’s silver medal for “Best Place to Work” in 2011 as well as the Intergenerational Foundation’s grand award for Colorado. Since its opening, the Palisades has won 31 awards, a feat Gannett attributes to the senior housing facility’s partnership with UCCS.
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