Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the community, Hospice of Humboldt has successfully raised the funds needed to expand its Home-Based Palliative Care program, allowing more people living with serious illness to receive specialized care and support where they are most comfortable, at home. Hospice of Humboldt launched Home-Based Palliative Care in 2022 after recognizing […]
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Resolution Care Sells to Healthcare Tech Company in Merger that Could Lead to National Expansion
Resolution Care, Humboldt County’s groundbreaking palliative care company, has been sold to Vynca, an advanced care planning technology company, in a merger that Resolution Care founder Michael Fratkin hopes will ultimately allow for a national expansion of the patient-centered care the company has prided itself on providing. Founded in 2014, Resolution Care’s palliative care teams […]
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Woo-Woo and the Hammer
The weekly staff meeting begins with the ringing of a Tibetan prayer bowl. ResolutionCare’s entire staff — social workers, administrators, nurses, community health workers, clinicians, a chaplain, an “office synergist” and an IT specialist — crowd around a pair of tables pushed together as if a few people showed up unexpectedly for Thanksgiving dinner. Other […]
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Local Healthcare Company Focus of WaPo Story
In case you missed it, The Washington Post recently put a spotlight on local palliative care company ResolutionCare. The Post’s story, which published Dec. 15, uses the story of Hoopa brothers-in-law Gordon Surber and Mark Hailey — both of whom have been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease — to explore the impact of palliative […]
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‘Magical Efficiency’: Update on Local Palliative Care Initiative
Palliative care doctor and founder of ResolutionCare Michael Fratkin was recently interviewed by Telemedicine Magazine, and the Q-and-A reveals some of the inner workings of Fratkin’s operation since it launched last year. The Journal wrote about Fratkin’s startup in 2014, when he was still finding support and funding for his vision to provide in-home end-of-life […]
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UPDATE: Local Palliative Care Outfit Launches Pilot Program
UPDATE: ResolutionCare has launched its education portion, Project ECHO, in a nine-month pilot program, also in conjunction with Partnership HealthPlan of California. Project ECHO uses a hub and spoke model to ” demonopolizes the scarce resource of a palliative care team,” according to a press release (see the illustration below, and read more about it here.) […]