As a home-based primary care nurse practitioner, I’m honored to be invited into the lives of my patients and their families – to see their family photos, meet their pets, and hear their stories. Every patient’s story is different, but they share a common problem: they are seriously ill and/or homebound, and they’re having trouble [Read more… ]
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From the CEO
With all the uncertainty surrounding our health care system, we are more committed than ever to providing home-based medicine to those who need it most. Your investment in our mission is critical as we work to build a sustainable model of care. While we are serving more primary care patients now than we ever have [Read more… ]
Thank you for your Gifts of Gratitude
On behalf of the entire Housecall Providers team, we want to say THANK YOU for the tremendous outpouring of support we have received from patients, family members and caregivers since launching our Gifts of Gratitude program earlier this year. We are truly honored and affected by the many thoughtful notes and generous donations that continue [Read more… ]
A heart full of gratitude
Like many of our family members who care for loved ones who are chronically ill, Alinda Lord had arrived at the realization that taking her mother, Virginia Flovette, to her primary care medical appointments was getting to be too difficult. “I was doing everything myself to get her to an appointment, and it became an [Read more… ]
Music on Tap event a great success
Last Thursday evening, over 90 people gathered at the Lagunitas Community Room in Northeast Portland to celebrate the incredible benefits that music can have for people with serious and chronic illness, and to raise funds to support the Housecall Providers Bringing Music Home program. Through a program that wove heartfelt storytelling with live music performed [Read more… ]
In-home medical care key to patient’s turnaround
Angela Paterson was seemingly out of care options for her husband David Staley when a staff member at OHSU’s Richmond Clinic recommended Housecall Providers. Staley, who suffered from a traumatic brain injury during a rollover car accident in 2013, struggled to control his emotions when in a public setting. “David’s aggravation at that point toward [Read more… ]
Hospice veteran returns to his roots
This summer, Housecall Providers welcomed Dr. Eric Walsh as its new Hospice Medical Director. Joining the Housecall Providers team is a homecoming of sorts for a provider who spent his early career in the south Bronx working at a full-service family clinic serving the poorest congressional district in the country. “We were a big clinic [Read more… ]
CareOregon, Housecall Providers celebrate one year together
May 31 is the first anniversary of Housecall Providers joining the CareOregon health care family. The two organizations have in many ways become one, but Housecall Providers has retained its unique offering of home-based primary, palliative and hospice care. “Much has happened in the past 12 months since we became a member of the CareOregon [Read more… ]
April 2018 – CEO Update
Much has happened in the last 10 months since Housecall Providers became a member of the CareOregon family. We instituted process improvements that have generated quick wins across all departments. We’ve charted a course that we believe will lead the organization to becoming a thriving, sustainable business model within the next couple of years. The [Read more… ]
Partner Spotlight – The Bloom Project
Housecall Providers is excited to announce a new partnership with The Bloom Project, a Portland-area nonprofit whose mission it is to donate fresh bouquets of flowers to hospice and palliative care patients. Each Wednesday, a Bloom Project volunteer drops off flower arrangements to Housecall Providers so team members can deliver bouquets to the patients they [Read more… ]
