Patient Care Example: IAH vs. Usual Care

Independence at Home Summary

The Case for Home Care Medicine

Recent Medicare Payment History

Number of Medicare House Calls Made

House Call Fact Sheet

News Articles and Interviews

House call is mighty comforting to patients, Belleville News-Democrat, July 29, 2008.

New medical provider goes old school: Nurse practitioner makes house calls to aid the weak and weary, Capital City Weekly, August 20, 2008.

Good Age: A Canton doctor who makes house calls, The Patriot Ledger, May 13, 2008.

Medical Care System not Ready for Mass of Aging Baby Bommers, Study Says, Associated Press Online, April 14, 2008.

New twist on the old house call, The Boston Globe, April 14, 2008.

Dr. Elizabeth Landsverk found her calling in the murky world of Alzheimer's, San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 2008, P4.

Doctors make house calls to elderly, The Plain Dealer, October 28, 2007, B5.

Yes, he makes house calls, Crain's Chicago Business, September 24, 2007

New Orleans' Health Care Is Ailing — Academy member and House Call Practitioner of the Year Scharmaine Lawson interview, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, aired August 30, 2007

Academy member Tom Cornwell, MD interview, ABC7 Chicago, February 28, 2007.

Doctors come to patients to help them feel at home, The Des Moines Register, February 25, 2007.

Finding Doctors Who Will Make House Calls, The Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2007; B1.

Doctors at Your Door, The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, December 31, 2006.

Is a Senior Safety Net Worth $9,000 a Year, Boston Globe, December 1, 2006.

More House Calls, Diversity are Doctors' Goals, The Boston Globe, October 15, 2006.

House Calls are Back, Medicare Hopes to Save Money in Treating its Sickest Beneficiaries, San Diego Union-Tribune, October 8, 2006.

A Doctor in the House, TIME, Generations Bonus Section, October 2006; F5.

House Call Doctors Make a Comeback in D.C.

D.C. Program Brings Health Care to Homes of Elderly, NPR - December 19, 2005

Medicine goes mobile: The house call returns, USA Today, April 4, 2006; cover story

Portland Hospital Gives Acutely Ill a Homecare Option, The Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2006; Page A1