Greetings from all of us at Housecall Providers! Thanks to the continued support of our community, Housecall Providers has had another amazing year of growth. Charitable donations from people like you are helping us achieve our vision to sustainably transform home-based medicine so all homebound adults and those living with serious illness have access to [Read more… ]
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When Housecall Providers joined the CareOregon family in May 2017, we welcomed the CareOregon Advanced Illness Care team into our continuum of home-based medicine. The community-based palliative care team delivers care to approximately 200 seriously ill Medicaid patients a year in the home, clinic or hospital. Unifying these home-based services under one roof makes care [Read more… ]
Long-distance care giver grateful for team-based support
Anne Betsey Lawrence, or “Bets” as she likes to be called (in honor of her maternal grandmother) is a natural storyteller. Sitting in her warm and cozy room at Golden Age Adult Care Home, you can’t help but get caught up in the story of her life – her adventurous childhood exploring the hills and [Read more… ]
Housecall Providers helps solve housing issue for cancer patient
It is hard enough to deal with a serious illness when you have many resources at your disposal. Now, imagine that housing, food, medical support and transportation are not readily available to you. How would you manage? Where would you turn for support? Last February, Tiffany Wicke, 42, faced that hard reality when she was [Read more… ]
Staff Spotlight: Mission driven pharmacist fills her community’s complex needs
Growing up in Klamath Falls, Leah Goeres was disturbed to see that health care wasn’t equally available to everyone. When she faced a dangerous blood clot as a teen, a pharmacist made sure Leah got the care she needed, inspiring her future career. Today, as a clinical pharmacist for the Housecall Providers Advanced Illness Care [Read more… ]
One more classic joy ride
Last year Gillian Beck van Heemstra, RN, orchestrated a virtual reality experience for hospice patient Glenn Morris so he could “swim” with sea turtles and “ride” a roller coaster. Gillian, a Housecall Providers hospice nurse, is always full of good ideas, especially to brighten her patients’ lives. This past summer, she was at it again, [Read more… ]
Independence at Home Demonstration Performance Year 5 Results Fact Sheet
In Performance Year 5 of the Demonstration (October 1, 2016–September 30, 2017), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) found that the actual expenditures for IAH practices’ applicable beneficiaries were approximately 8.4 percent (equating to $33.5 million) below their spending targets, an average reduction of $2,711 per beneficiary. Thirteen out of the 14 IAH [Read more… ]
The impact of home-based primary care on a safety net population
Adult care home owner grateful for the lasting partnership
Adult care home (ACH) owner/operator Erika Covaciu easily recalls her reaction when she first heard about a doctor in Portland who made house calls to people who were homebound. “Is this for real?” she thought. “I had to pinch myself because it seemed too good to be true.” Erika had learned about Doctor Housecalls, the [Read more… ]
Donor Spotlight: Dick and Marsha Yandell
When you feel passionate about a cause close to your heart, there always seems to be a way to talk to friends and family about its merit and benefit to society. Friends of Marsha and Dick Yandell know this firsthand, ever since the duo added a fundraising component three years ago to Marsha’s annual birthday [Read more… ]
