Non-Profit Provides Home Health Care For Underinsured And Uninsured

Registered nurse Susan Eager (L) takes the blood pressure of Duroyaiye David, 63, during a home visit on November 4, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. David, a former market research analyst, said he lost his health insurance after suffering a heart attack and having to leave his job. Although he receives Social Security disability payments, he said medical co-pays have driven him into fiscal insolvecy. He receives home visits from the Dominican Sisters Home Health Agency. The non-profit agency performs some 25,000 home visits annually in the Denver area. It provides free home nursing care to patients with chronic diseases, helps them to better manage their disabling illnesses and provides custodial services with the aim of keeping patients in their homes and out of more expensive nursing home care.
Registered nurse Susan Eager (L) takes the blood pressure of Duroyaiye David, 63, during a home visit on November 4, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. David, a former market research analyst, said he lost his health insurance after suffering a heart attack and having to leave his job. Although he receives Social Security disability payments, he said medical co-pays have driven him into fiscal insolvecy. He receives home visits from the Dominican Sisters Home Health Agency. The non-profit agency performs some 25,000 home visits annually in the Denver area. It provides free home nursing care to patients with chronic diseases, helps them to better manage their disabling illnesses and provides custodial services with the aim of keeping patients in their homes and out of more expensive nursing home care.
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Anthony Blea, 61, recalls how he lost his health insurance on November 4, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. A custodial worker, he said he lost his health insurance months before when his company was bought out by another firm that cut employee benefits. Blea suffers from diabetes and receives home visits from the Dominican Sisters Home Health Agency, which sends a nurse each week to help him organize his medications. The non-profit agency performs some 25,000 home visits each year in the Denver area. It provides free home nursing care to patients with chronic diseases, helps them to better manage their disabling illnesses and provides custodial services with the aim of keeping patients in their homes and out of more expensive nursing home care. Registered nurse Susan Eager (L) checks on Jane Awise, who suffers from severe diabetes, while performing a home visit on November 4, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. Awise has health insurance but says she pays about $400 each month in co-pays to treat her chronic disease. Eager works for the Dominican Sisters Home Health Agency, a non-profit that performs some 25,000 home visits each year in the Denver area. It provides free home nursing care to patients with chronic diseases, helps them to better manage their disabling illnesses and provides custodial services with the aim of keeping patients in their homes and out of more expensive nursing home care. Duroyaiye David, 63, is treated by a nurse during a visit to his home on November 4, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. David, a former market research analyst, said he lost his health insurance after suffering a heart attack and having to leave his job. Although he receives Social Security disability payments, he said medical co-pays have driven him into fiscal insolvecy. He receives home visits from the Dominican Sisters Home Health Agency. The non-profit agency performs some 25,000 home visits annually in the Denver area. It provides free home nursing care to patients with chronic diseases, helps them to better manage their disabling illnesses and provides custodial services with the aim of keeping patients in their homes and out of more expensive nursing home care. Registered Nurse Susan Eager carries a patient's medications while performing a home visit on November 4, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. Eager works for the Dominican Sisters Home Health Agency, a non-profit that performs some 25,000 home visits each year in the Denver area. It provides free home nursing care to patients with chronic diseases, helps them to better manage their disabling illnesses and provides custodial services with the aim of keeping patients in their homes and out of more expensive nursing home care.
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