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… ]
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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… ]
In lieu of flowers: family remembers Housecall Providers
Elaine Landriau was a woman of many talents – loving mother, devoted wife, dedicated educator, skilled seamstress – and right up to the end of her life – a conscientious hostess. As Elaine’s daughter remembers, “When nurses and other people would come over to the house to care for mom, she would pull me over [Read more… ]
Thanks for the memories
One of the many benefits our clinicians and volunteers receive from providing care to the Greatest Generation is the pleasure of listening to stories that may never be heard again. Sit down next to Clint Nordquist, 99, and you’ll be in for a treat. He will likely tell you about his experiences playing bass with [Read more… ]
Positive attitude and team-based support key to patient’s resilient spirit
CareOregon member and Housecall Providers patient Stephen Dedman often gets asked the same question: “How do you manage to keep your upbeat attitude?” Dedman, 59, who has been battling COPD for nearly 20 years responds the same every time: “I tell them that I have come to terms with my disease and with who I [Read more… ]
Think of us this holiday season
Every one of us has had the experience of caring for someone. You understand the value in being there for a loved one during their time of need, but also how demanding providing that care can be. That is why we are asking for your help. In the coming years, our country will have the largest [Read more… ]
Farewell to a house call champion
It’s a handful of people across America who have worked tirelessly within the last two decades to bring the house call back from near extinction. Among the members of that elite group: Terri Hobbs. The former executive director of Housecall Providers gave her blood, sweat and tears the last 16 years to ensure that, above [Read more… ]
Another member added to the “Dream Team”
Hospice Chaplain Sam Aylor, M.Div, was selected to the Oregon Hospice Association’s Dream Team last month at its annual conference. Aylor is Housecall Providers’ fourth member to join the team, following in the footsteps of Volunteer Coordinator Todd Lawrence (‘13), Certified Nursing Assistant Yana Kasim (‘14) and Medical Director Dr. Nancy Cloak, HMDC (’16). “There [Read more… ]
Emerson House and Housecall Providers: trusted partners in care
For over a decade, Housecall Providers has been offering the residents of Emerson House home-based primary care and hospice services. Memory care communities, like Emerson House in SE Portland, were created solely to serve the needs of people with Alzheimer’s disease and other medical dementias. In addition to those diagnoses, many of their residents suffer [Read more… ]
The best care starts with strong relationships
by Mary Finn, development coordinator As a child, Kristi Youngs, BSN, RN, CHPN, knew that when she grew up she either wanted to be a nurse or a ballerina. While she would have made a great ballerina – tall and graceful, with a sunny personality that belies a surprising competitive streak – ultimately, it was [Read more… ]
