HCCI Blog
What Brought a Resident Back to House Calls
Date: 4|25|2024 Dr. Paul Chiang Dr. Dillon Karst Increasingly recognized for the significant role it plays in providing quality, patient-centered care for homebound or home-limited patients, home-based primary care (HBPC) offers providers a unique opportunity to deliver medical care to patients where they live. The approach...
April 25th, 2024
The Power of Three Plus One: The John A. Hartford Foundation Expands Collaborative Grant Effort to Advance Home-Based Primary Care
Date: 4|11|2024 Building on two previous phases of an ongoing initiative to advance home-based primary care in the U.S., The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) has launched Moving and Scaling Home-Based Primary Care Phase III: Quality, Training, Advocacy, and Policy. This most recent grant phase supports JAHF’s overall mission...
April 11th, 2024
The Transformative Impact of House Calls: Part II
Date: 4|4|2024 Blair Findlay, HCCI Development Associate, rode along with Dr. Paul Chiang, HCCI’s Senior Medical and Practice Advisor, for a day of house calls. Dr. Chiang also serves as Medical Director for Northwestern Medicine HomeCare Physicians. In this series, Findlay shares her...
April 4th, 2024
The Transformative Impact of House Calls: Part I
Date: 3|6|2024 Blair Findlay, HCCI Development Associate, rode along with Dr. Paul Chiang, HCCI’s Senior Medical and Practice Advisor, for a day of house calls. Dr. Chiang also serves as Medical Director for Northwestern Medicine HomeCare Physicians (HCP), a suburban Chicago practice focused on delivering care to medically...
March 6th, 2024
Why Home-Centered Care Practices Need Data and Where to Find It
Date: 2|26|2024 Home-centered care practices and organizations live in a data-driven world. And whether your practice is just getting started, looking to grow, or already well-established, having the right data is essential for making informed decisions, solving problems, and guiding continuous quality improvements. But where do you find the “right”...
February 26th, 2024
How to Best Retain House Call Staff
In September, Dr. Paul Chiang, Senior Medical and Practice Advisor, HCCI, and Medical Director, Northwestern Medicine HomeCare Physicians, and Rebecca Ramsay, MPH, BSN, Chief Executive Officer, Housecall Providers, presented on The Intersection of Home-Based Primary Care and Palliative Care for a group of...
November 28th, 2023
Take Charge of Your Practice’s Financial Health
Date: 8|25|2023 Are you a home-based medical care provider or practice administrator feeling overwhelmed with the complexities of Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)? Do you find it challenging to understand RCM, including how to effectively delegate tasks to your staff? Kera Holmes, HCCI, Manager of Practice Development, can help you unravel...
August 25th, 2023
Help the Next Generation of House Call Providers
Date: 8|23|2023 Are you an HCCInsider? For only $15 a month, your donation (which will be doubled by a generous HCCI donor) will cover the cost to provide early career online training in home-based primary care for a medical resident or trainee and accomplish the following: Offer vital...
August 21st, 2023
37,000 Visits and Counting: A Physician’s Journey into House Call Medicine
Date: 7|6|2023 As Senior Medical and Practice Advisor at HCCI and Medical Director for Northwestern Medicine HomeCare Physicians in suburban Chicago, Dr. Paul Chiang has made over 37,000 house calls to more than 3,600 patients during his 23-year career. We talked to Dr. Chiang about his...
July 6th, 2023
AGS Meeting Participants Take Home-Based Care Adventure
Date: 6|1|2023 At the annual Scientific Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society, May 4-6 in Long Beach, California, Dr. Paul Chiang, Senior Medical and Practice Advisor, HCCI, and Medical Director, Northwestern Medicine HomeCare Physicians, was among the presenters of the Choose Your Own Adventure: Navigating the Home-Based...
June 1st, 2023