Excerpts of Media Coverage of the Independence at Home Program

Patient Case Studies and Testimonials

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

Growth Rx: Keep patients away, Crain's Chicago Business, November 2, 2009

House Calls as cost-saver in health care reform? Associated Press, October 28, 2009

The high cost of health in Chicago, ChicagoBusiness.com, September 28, 2009

A Big Day on the Health Care Front, The New York Times, September 8, 2009

Doctors seeing elderly patients at home saves money, improves care, The Kennebec Journal, September 8, 2009

House Calls to the Uninsured, CNN Health, August 27, 2009

Getting cheaper, better health care at home? The Los Angeles Times, August 25, 2009

The Case for Home Health Care, The Health Care Blog, July 25, 2009

PBS Nightly Business Report on Medicare and Medical House Calls, including IAH, July 30, 2009

Why don't we first do what works? Special to Roll Call, July 30, 2009

House Calls are a Healthy Idea: Physician Assistants Visit Patients at Home Across the Treasure Coast, TCPalm, July 2, 2009.

House Calls Work Well for Many DC Residents, NBC Washington, June 5, 2009.

Hospital resurrects practice of making house calls, Akron Beacon Journal, June 1, 2009.

Black bag and Blackberry in hand, this doc makes house calls, CNN Health Minute, May 25, 2009.

Having Almost Become Extinct, House Calls Stage a Welcome Recovery, The Washington Post, March 24, 2009.

Making the House Call, an interview with Dr. Tom Cornwell, aired nationally on K-LOVE radio, March 19 and April 5, 2009.

Scharmaine Lawson-Baker, DNP, FNP-BC, President and CEO of Advanced Clinical Consultants, LLC was featured on NurseTV, February 7, 2009.

Doctor's house calls: Back to the future, Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul, March 7, 2009.

Growing number of doctors making house calls in Central Jersey as demand goes up, My Central Jersey, February 8, 2009.

The Other Medical Home, by Dr. Steven Landers, JAMA, January 7, 2009, Vol. 301, No.1.

Program finds families for veterans, Salt Lake Tribune, December 8, 2008.

Endangered no more, Unique Opportunities magazine, Nov/Dec 2008, pp.22-28.

Alan Kronhaus, MD was featured in Our State magazine, January 2009, pp.78-83.

Doug Ballan, MD was featured in Scotch Plains Suburban News, November 5, 2008, p.18.

House calls bill could mean new referral opportunities for agencies, Home Health Line, September 22, 2008

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