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… ]
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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… ]
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… ]
