With You Every Step of The Way
Our Management Team
Terry Ritter, RN, BSN, CHPN
Manager of Hospice, Palliative, & Quality
Our Board of Directors
Board Officers
Board Chair
Barry Schroeder was born in Ord, Nebraska and moved to Littleton, Colorado in 1983. Barry and his wife Michelle have three girls; twins, Taylor and Avery, age 8 and their youngest, Payton, who is 6. They have been residents of Evergreen since 2006.
Barry received his business degree from Western State College in 1998. He is presently a Senior Vice President and lender for FirstBank, managing three branch locations in Evergreen and Conifer. In his leisure time, Barry enjoys fishing, hunting and golf.
He has previous board involvement with Mountain Resource Center, Bootstraps, Life’s Options Pregnancy Center and the Conifer Chamber of Commerce.
Board Chair-Elect
Bill Slaughter has a BS, Engineering, from the University of Texas, Austin, and an MBA, Finance, from the University of Chicago. His career focus has been on repositioning organizations to better serve changing product sources and markets. He was involved in the start-up of the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA, and was a USA delegate to the International Energy Agency. Bill retired after serving as Executive Vice President of the Duke Energy / ConocoPhillips Midstream partnership, responsible for strategy, M&A, engineering, HR, and public/regulatory affairs.
Bill has served on Boards including TEPPCO (NYSE), Altra Energy Technologies, American Gas Association, Houston Society for the Performing Arts, Spring Branch Educational Foundation, Geneva Glen Camp, and Sculpture Evergreen. He and Carol relocated from Houston and Palo Alto and have many Colorado friends dating from earlier Colorado camp counseling and performing arts days. Mountain climbing, skiing, photography, and community development are their favorite activities.
Past Board Chair
Doug Spencer is the sole proprietor of Spencer Associates, an impact investment management firm in Evergreen. He spent 20 years as a fundraising professional, first with Mile High United Way, then later with Friendship Bridge and Water for People. In between, he co-founded and was Chairman and CEO of a small manufacturing business specializing in custom, single-shot rifles. Currently he is Chairman of Jibuco, a potable water franchise business in East Africa, and on the boards of Yellowstone Forever, the support organization for Yellowstone Park and Guatemalan-based microfinance bank, Namaste Direct. He and his wife, Kathleen, live in Evergreen and have two daughters, one a nurse and the other a teacher.
Board Treasurer
As president of Scripps, Taylor & Associates, P.C., Barb offers over thirty years of experience in public and private accounting.
Prior to launching her own firm, she spent nine years with the “Big 4” firm of KPMG, providing tax and business planning, tax return preparation and accounting services for small to medium-sized businesses. She later worked for one of the 25 largest CPA firms in Denver, where she gained additional comprehensive experience in these areas. She has also served as controller for several start-up businesses.
In 1992, she started her own public accounting firm. Barb graduated cum laude from the University of Colorado and has completed graduate work at Denver University’s Master of Taxation program. She strongly believes in giving back to her community, thus she is a member of the Evergreen Rotary Club and serves, or has served, on the board of directors of various not-for-profit organizations in Evergreen, including Mt. Evans Home Health Care and Hospice, Center for the Arts -Evergreen, Evergreen Country Day School and the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce.
Board Secretary
Leonor McCall-Rodriguez is a bilingual and multicultural consultant whose career spans marketing, development, communications, global initiatives, and research across industries with leading international corporations. Most recently, she has focused on grant development for clinical simulation, science, and virtual reality resources in health programs serving minority students, as well as communications to improve the patient experience. A native of Chicago, she holds a Master of Health Administration, an MBA, and a Baccalaureate degree in Economics. Leonor is Board certified in Healthcare Management and a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE). She is also a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE). She is the author of “Reinventing Yourself in The Face of Change,” and other titles. She resides in Conifer, Colorado with her husband, Dean, and their furry rescues.
Board Members
Jamie Arnold moved from Western New York to Evergreen with his family in 2005 to serve as the first full-time rabbi of Congregation Beth Evergreen (CBE). During his tenure at CBE, the congregation nearly doubled in size, and has become a hub for communal collaborations in town, and in the region. Over the last 16 years, Jamie has come to know and value the noble mission and sacred work of Mt. Evans Hospice in several ways – from CBE members who have volunteered for Mt. Evans Hospice and report their experience, from community leaders and fellow clergy, and in homes at the bedside of dying neighbors, partnering directly with hospice nurses to support families through the processes of death and grief. Such experiences motivate his desire to formalize his involvement on the Hospice Board.
Rabbi Jamie is also a co-founder and past president of AT HOME in Evergreen, an interfaith advocacy group striving to ‘open hearts and minds to the need for affordable housing in Evergreen.’ As an extension of his volunteer work there, he instigated and mobilized creation of the Evergreen Shelter Program (ESP). His leadership on that project helped earn him the Evergreen Chambers’ Leader of the Year Award in 2018.
Jamie is also a volunteer law enforcement chaplain for JeffCo Sheriff’s office, former President of the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado, a writer, and an award-winning educator. Rabbi Arnold is a graduate of Kenyon College (1992) and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (1999), a husband, parent, musician, and avid skier and mountain biker.
Jim Chiddix is a veteran of the cable television and broadband industries and led the development of a number of fundamental technologies in those fields. Jim spent eighteen years as Chief Technology Officer and in other senior posts at Time Warner Cable. He and his team pioneered cable’s use of fiber optics as well as the delivery of streaming video and broadband services. Jim accepted a Technical Emmy Award in 1994 and was inducted into both the Cable Television Pioneers and the Cable Hall of Fame.
Earlier in his career, Jim held a variety of engineering and operating positions with cable companies in Hawaii, where he lived for fifteen years. While there he cofounded CRC Electronics, a start-up that manufactured videotape automation systems. Career-related travels have taken him all over the world, including to Japan and Hong Kong where he served on the boards of two cable companies. Prior to his retirement in 2007, Jim served as Chairman and CEO at OpenTV, a San Francisco-based software company.
Jim serves, or has served, on a number of public and private technology company boards including ARRIS, STARRY, VOBILE, VIRGIN MEDIA, SYMMETRICOM, MAGNUM SEMICONDUCTOR and DYCOM. Most recently he joined the board of Mt. Evans Home Healthcare and Hospice.
Jim lives in Evergreen, Colorado, and San Francisco, with his wife Trudy, an artist who works in ceramics and glass. His interests include woodland trail construction, biking, hiking, travel and model trains. He’s currently building a model of the Oahu Railway based on information gathered during his years in Hawaii. He co-authored and published a history of that railroad, “Next Stop Honolulu.”
Jim and Trudy have owned an historic home in Evergreen for 26 years. Now in retirement they are enjoying the opportunity to become more involved in this special community.
Dr. Hock practiced Optometry in Lakewood and Evergreen for 36 years. Along with his wife, Carolyn, Dr. Hock founded Evergreen Vision clinic in 1966. Dr. Hock served as a consultant to companies developing new equipment for testing eye and vision disorders, and companies developing new contact lens products. Dr. Hock is Past President of the Colorado Optometric Association and an Active Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry – an organization of research doctors, educators, and clinician.
Dr. Hock has a long history with Mount Home Health Care & Hospice. He previously served two six-year terms as a Board Member from 1996-2012 and served as President for a one-year term.
For Dr. Hock, working towards his Eagle Scout rank as a boy scout, community service was a big part of advancing. Thus, he has always had goals for serving his community, including:
An appointment to the United States Draft Board for Jefferson County by President Nixon in the late 196Os. He helped managed the drafting process for young men from Jefferson County until the drafting process was discontinued in the 1970s.
Evergreen Park and Recreation District Board Member and Treasurer
Dr. Hock serve on the organizing committee that formed the district and served as its first board members in 1970. Dr. Hock was then reelected to the slate in 1974. There were no facilities, only a concept. The District had to let bonds and manage an election for raising the money to build the first project: the Wulf swimming pool and administration building. The trail system was also started during this time.
National Sports Center for the Disabled at the Winter Park – Volunteer Ski Instructor
The Winter Park Program is the original ski program for the disabled, and has spread throughout the World.
I taught skiing for children with developmental and acquired disabilities in the 1990s and early 2000s. Because of my profession, I specialized in working with blind and partially sighted individuals. I taught children from the Soviet Union, England and all over the United States.
Shining Stars Foundation – Volunteer Ski Instructor Late 90’s to the present.
The foundation provides a ski camp in Aspen, CO for children with cancer and other life limiting conditions. Since the late 1990s, Dr. Hock has spent a week every year teaching kids to ski in spite of the manifestations from their disease. Dr. Hock has taught several children with brain cancers causing blindness and many other disabilities. For many of these children, it is the last outdoor activity of their life.
Salu’d Y Amistad – Volunteer Eye Doctor -1990 to 2008.
This is a program sponsored by the Arvada Rotary Club to bring eye care to economically disadvantaged people in Mexico and the Tarahumara Indians in the Copper Canyon area of central Mexico. Dr. Hock performed eye examinations and treatments, and opticians would fit glasses. The team brought thousands of used glasses to to fit and distribute. The program had to be canceled because of the drug wars.
Dr. Hock was also a member of the Lakewood and Evergreen Kiwanis Club for nearly two decades.
Alan is a partner in the law firm of Arnall Golden & Gregory, LLP. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and currently resides in Evergreen. Apart from practicing law, Alan has significant health care experience having held clinical, faculty and management positions at major medical centers where he utilized his management skills as well as his background as a registered respiratory therapist and a registered nurse. Alan is a graduate of the Widener University School of Law, Juris Doctorate, and also earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the same university. Alan enjoys hiking, biking, exploring Colorado, traveling and writing a legal column. He has a daughter, Beth who lives in Denver. Alan is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), the American Bar Association (ABA), the American Medical Directors Association – The Society for Post-Acute and Long Term Care Medicine (AMDA), and the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA).
Davis began with Edward Jones in 2011 and took responsibility for the Genesee Branch in 2012. Building a business through volunteerism and community service has always been important to him. He has served on the board of directors for the Conifer Chamber of Commerce, he is a graduate of Leadership Evergreen and past board member, and current board member of the Evergreen Rotary Club. In 2020, He was recognized as the Business of the Year from the Conifer Chamber.
Davis graduated from the University of Iowa in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in business management. While at Iowa he was a member of the Track & Field and Cross Country teams. He has added his CFP®, ChFC®, CLU® and AAMS® designations. In 2019 he completed his master’s degree in financial planning.
Originally from Iowa, he relocated to Colorado in 2008 and immediately began taking advantage of many of our state’s natural resources. An avid camper, hiker, is scuba certified, and has five remaining 14’ers to complete. Next year he anticipates starting work towards the National Parks and his pilots license.
Robert W. Loeffler was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and earned both his BBA in Accounting and JD in Law from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He worked for a private practice law firm in California primarily doing litigation work, becoming a partner. He changed emphasis to a public interest career when he moved to Eagle, Colorado where he served in the Eagle County Attorney’s office, variously as Assistant, Deputy and Acting County Attorney. He then moved to Georgetown, Colorado where he served as the Clear Creek County Attorney until he retired in 2020. He’s been a trustee of the Georgetown Library Association, a Director of the Clear Creek County Library District, the President of Clear Creek Rotary Club, and the Assistant Governor of Rotary District 5450.
Theodore (Ted) C Ning, MD is a semi-retired urologist and a Clinical Professor of Urology at the CU School of Medicine. He trains and operates with residents at Denver Health Hospital. He also works as a part-time urology hospitalist at numerous Denver area hospitals.
Ted graduated from Northwestern University Medical School and completed his urology residency at the University of Colorado. His medical training was interrupted for two years by US Army service. He spent one year as a combat surgeon with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. In 1975, he began private practice in the West side of Denver including the Evergreen community. He and his family moved to Evergreen in 1976.
Ted and his wife, Connie, raised a large family and participated in many community organizations. In 1988, Ted and Connie returned to Vietnam to help in the post-war reconstruction especially in the area of medical and nursing education. They created Friendship Bridge and over a 12 year period sent numerous teams of professionals to create programs throughout Vietnam. Ted left private practice in 1995 to do this work full-time. The project evolved to rural community development with focus on Women at the Center Development coupling it with a new concept of Microcredit- small loans to poor women.
With Nike funding, this became a huge success. In 1998, they began a similar project in rural areas of Guatemala which today serves 25,000 families. In 2007, they began another organization, Starfish One by One (now rebranded as MAIA Impact) to educate young Mayan girls through high school. Another program was created with 45 girls currently at the university.
He was a founding Board Member of the Center of Global Health at CU Medical School.
Ted served 9 years on the Board of the Community First Foundation.
Ted received an Honorary Doctorate from the CU Board of Regents for his international service.
He is the Founding Board President of Evergreen Sustainability Alliance and Resilience 1220.
He has been a member of Evergreen Rotary for 12 years and is active in their grant programs.
Dr. Todd Wisser earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and completed his residency at the Michigan State University Department of Internal Medicine in East Lansing, Michigan. He has been in practice since 2016 and is an active member of the American Osteopathic Association, American Geriatric Society, American College of Physicians, and American Medical Association.
Dr. Wisser is dedicated to his calling as a physician. He takes pride in his work, is fulfilled when helping others, and feels privileged to have the opportunity to practice medicine. He recently moved to Colorado with his wife and three children and is practicing at New West Physicians’ Evergreen Internal Medicine office. He loves spending time with his family, and enjoys any opportunity to immerse himself in mountain activities, including climbing, hiking, and skiing.
Honorary Board Member
Susan served on the Mount Evans Board of Directors for 25 years between 1987 and 2021, including numerous Officer roles and three terms as President in FY1992, FY2000, and FY2008.
Susan was all things to Mount Evans: board member, donor, volunteer, staff member, and lastly, patient. In recognition of all that she gave, the Mount Evans Board of Directors made her an Honorary Board member in 2020.
Susan’s life was defined by sports and charity. While growing up in Ohio, each of her parents encouraged her and her siblings in their own way. “Dad was active, mom was charitable,” she explained. When her mother asked her to help with a Junior League fundraiser she offered to be in the dunk tank. “I sat there for hours and it made an impression on me-that it could be fun to help.”
Susan’s love of skiing led her to choose Colorado State University for college. After graduating, she took a year off and moved to Vail where she worked as a dishwasher and skied. A year of skiing and dishwashing, however, motivated Susan to go to CU Law School. There, she met her husband, Frank.
After moving to Montana, Boulder, and Lakewood, Susan and Frank eventually settled in Evergreen. Susan started her own law practice in Evergreen focused on estate planning and elder law. She shared office space with other local attorneys. In 1987, one of them, Jim Robinson, got her to join the board of Mount Evans Home Health Care & Hospice. She spent 25 years on the board, including three terms as president, and saw the organization grow as a thriving community asset. Most of her time on the board was spent on fundraising events like the Freedom Run 5K and the Annual Benefit Gala.
Her time on the Mount Evans board led to many other connections such as Leadership Evergreen and Kiwanis, as well as introducing her to organizations she likes to support such as Mountain Area Land Trust (MALT), EAS+Y (Evergreen Alliance for Sustainability and YOU), Center for the Arts Evergreen (CAE) and Bootstraps.
When Susan retired from her legal career in 2013, she joined the staff of Mount Evans. The organization was looking for someone to do planned giving, 15-20 hours a week, and Susan’s experience in estate planning and elder law, made her the perfect fit. Susan retired from her position with Mount Evans in 2018 after nearly five years, but continued to give her expertise, time, and attention again as a board member.
Susan passed away January 29, 2021 from ovarian cancer. Her legacy lives on through everyone she touched with her kindness and generosity.
Our Medical Directors
Medical Director
Medical Director
Dr. Todd Wisser earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and completed his residency at the Michigan State University Department of Internal Medicine in East Lansing, Michigan. He has been in practice since 2016 and is an active member of the American Osteopathic Association, American Geriatric Society, American College of Physicians, and American Medical Association.
Dr. Wisser is dedicated to his calling as a physician. He takes pride in his work, is fulfilled when helping others, and feels privileged to have the opportunity to practice medicine. He recently moved to Colorado with his wife and three children and is practicing at New West Physicians’ Evergreen Internal Medicine office. He loves spending time with his family, and enjoys any opportunity to immerse himself in mountain activities.
