Love of people started Columbine Health Systems

FORT COLLINS – One-time Iowa farm boy Bob Wilson turned a love of helping older people and a big dollop of vision and luck into a successful network of elderly services called Columbine Health Systems.

And it’s a formula that’s been chugging along smoothly for 40 years.

“It amazes me it’s been 40 years,” says Wilson, 64, who now sits at the head of a 22-business system that includes nursing homes, assisted-care centers, independent-living centers, home health care and medical equipment, to name just a few.

Wilson said his story started back on the farm in the 1960s, when he would sit on…