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	NPR : A Doctor at the Door: House Calls Make Comeback
		Some physicians are affiliated with house calls programs begun in recent years by hospitals such as the Washington Hospital Center, which Joseph Shapiro profiles in a related report.
		House calls were the norm for physicians until the end of the 19th century, when the rise of hospitals and health insurance and improved transportation led to a shift to the office-based practice.
		For example, a 2004 study of a house call program in Las Vegas found a 62-percent drop in hospital stays among 91 elderly patients, resulting in a net savings of $261,225 per year.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5059072 (1155 words)

	Physicians Practice Digest -- House Calls Make a Comeback New Twists to an Old Custom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But the picture is becoming brighter: In 1998, physician reimbursement from Medicare for house calls increased from $40 to $60 per visit to $60 to $140 per visit, depending on the complexity of the case.
		Not only does the house call business present financial opportunities and a change from the usual routine, there are physicians who think making house calls improves the quality of the care they give - in effect, they become better doctors.
		Of all his house calls, Boal's first sticks most clearly in his mind: an older, slightly demented woman in East Harlem, essentially trapped in her second floor apartment.
	www.shands.org /professional/ppd/practice_article.asp?ID=93 (1779 words)

	MedicalPost.com: Doctors who make house calls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		House calls were once considered part and parcel of understanding the dynamics of the patient.
		The death of the house call is one thing that demonstrates the shift in traditional practise of family medicine in Canada, says Steve Slade, a consultant on physician databases at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).
		Collectively, they maintained house calls are an important component to their practice particularly with respect to frail, elderly patients, palliative care, the disabled and chronic illness.
	www.medicalpost.com /mpcontent/article.jsp?content=20050613_194855_5428 (1177 words)

	House Calls Counseling
		House Calls Counseling, Chicagoland’s premier provider of psychotherapy in the comfort of the home, is a human services organization dedicated to promoting the emotional and mental health of children, teenagers, adults, couples, and families.
		In our focus on improving the lives of children, youth and their families, we are proud of our service to young people living with foster and adoptive families, to their families, and to the professionals who work with them.
		House Calls Counseling provides all of its clients with a diverse team of friendly, professional psychotherapists.
	housecallscounseling.com (281 words)

	House Calls \| Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		House Calls provide a view of the animal in its environment that is often optimal for gaining the most information about the animal's medical and husbandry care.
		A House Call averages 45 minutes, whereas a trip to a clinic can take an average of two and-a-half hours or more.
		Veterinary House Calls are considerably less stressful for your pet than visits to a pet clinic.
	verizonsupersite.com /wholeworldpetcom/door (357 words)

	House calls return
		Call it the old-fashioned house call with a modern twist.
		Regular primary care physicians do make house calls on occasion to their frail elderly patients, but it's difficult for them to get out of the office, where they're seeing 20 to 30 patients a day.
		Most patients receive a house call within 24 to 72 hours of requesting a visit, and doctors see an average of 10 to 12 patients a day.
	www.post-gazette.com /healthscience/20021119hvisit3.asp (1069 words)

	For MDHOME, house calls no longer a thing of the past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The four doctors are making about 625 house calls per month, including some in the Harrisburg area, he says.
		The house calls generally involve routine care — such as blood work, wounds or prescriptions — normally provided by a family doctor.
		House calls are on the rise nationally, with Medicare paying for more than 2 million visits in 2004, up from about 1.5 million in 2000, according the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
	www.dailyitem.com /archive/2006/0108/biz/stories/01biz.htm (717 words)

	97.1 FM TALK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		House Calls is St. Louis's new information source for health, fitness, and well-being.
		Call the doctors live at (314) 969-9797 or toll free at (866) 455-9797.
		House Calls host Jean Jackson is an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, who grew up in Oklahoma, but has called St. Louis home for the last 17 years.
	www.971talk.com /weekends/house_calls.aspx (227 words)

	House Calls by 'Doctors' Ensure Quality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Often compared to a doctor for houses, Zhang is a private surveyor hired by home buyers to inspect for defects and survey houses they are going to purchase.
		With technicians' know-how, homebuyers will find it easier to negotiate with housing developers for better settlements, which is part of reason that surveying is a growing profession, Ding Bo, founder of what is considered the first group of private housing surveyors in China, was quoted as saying by Xinhua News Agency.
		She added that although hiring a property surveyor may cost a little bit, living in a house with problems means being stuck with repair bills in the thousands of yuan in the future.
	www.china.org.cn /english/Life/175218.htm (1413 words)

	1996 House Roll Calls
		SB 876 (05/15/1996): House 3rd read of bill to require board members appointed by the governor to be Missouri residents.
		HCS SB 904 (05/07/1996): House adoption of HCS for state regulation of development in flood plains.
		HA 1 SB 858 (04/30/1996): House amendment to allow person to seek court order for HIV test of another with whom the person had contact.
	www.mdn.org /1996/INDEX/HVOTE.HTM (595 words)

	PC House Calls, Inc.
		PC House Calls can set up internet connection sharing that is safe, secure, and hassle-free while still offering all the advantages of file and printer sharing.
		PC House Calls can install and configure virtually any software for you and resolve the vast majority of conflicts that may arise in the process.
		PC House Calls, Inc. has developed a computer service plan that is designed to meet your business system needs giving you a high level of flexible coverage at a cost that is very affordable.
	www.pchousecallsinc.com /services.html (763 words)

	Back to Basics: Doctors Making House Calls Again
		A convergence of factors may play a role in the resurgence of doctor house calls, from doctor and patient dissatisfaction with managed care insurance companies to the rapid aging of the population.
		Calling the resurgence of doctor house calls "a very positive trend," Joanne Schwartzberg, MD, director of aging and community health at the AMA in Chicago, predicts that there will be even more house calls in the future.
		Another company, the Call Doctor Company in San Diego, Calif., has 10 physicians in Riverside, San Diego, and San Bernadino, Calif., and plans to expand, explains Hank Fanelli, CEO of the Call Doctor Company.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/21/1728_55028.htm (710 words)

	House calls - Investment - Money - Business - Home - smh.com.au
		St George's head of margin lending, Andrew Black, says the product was a response to anecdotal evidence that people are drawing on their home equity to invest in one or two blue chip stocks, then using these as collateral for a margin loan, a practice he describes as double gearing.
		In the event of a margin call, the first option is to sell shares to meet the call.
		Black says there have been only four cases in the past five years when margin calls resulted in customers dipping into their home equity; all were people with only one high-risk stock.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Investment/House-calls/2004/12/07/1102182288846.html?from=moreStories (979 words)

	Doctors Who Make House Calls
		House calls were common a generation ago, but the impracticality of traveling long distances from patient to patient drove them to near extinction.
		A house call for which he would be reimbursed $139.12 this year will be worth $129.38 in 2005.
		House calls are still knocking at the door of mainstream medicine, but it may be the doctors themselves who change that: Despite a myriad of challenges, a growing number of physicians are finding the rewards well worth the sacrifices.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/dec2004/nf20041210_3699_db037.htm (1363 words)

	House Calls for Temporary Storage of Nuclear Waste at Federal Sites
		It calls on the energy secretary to produce a plan for interim storage four months after the bill becomes law and begin accepting waste before the end of next year.
		The bill calls for spending $62 million for oil and gas research, programs the administration had wanted phased out, arguing that the highly profitable industry already "has the financial incentives and resources" to develop new technologies without taxpayer subsidies.
		House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, whose district is home to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, refused to bring that bill to the floor and forced negotiators to restore the cuts when assembling a $388 billion catchall spending bill last November.
	www.truthout.org /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/34/11417 (929 words)

	House Calls
		Many of our calls were to distant parts of the country, at times taking two or three days to make them.
		Then too, a call to one patient usually resulted in a neighborhood affair, for they all knew when a doctor was sent for and bunched their complaints.
		Upon reaching home, I found a call awaiting me to go in the opposite direction more than thirty miles to see a case of pneumonia in a small town on the railroad and I could go and return by train which I did before midnight.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/rural/calls.html (886 words)

	Doctor Makes House Calls
		The doctor may be in, or out - on a house call - or, perhaps a barn call.
		One of the things she wanted to offer was house calls, for owners who couldn't get out to bring their pets to an office, or for pets who didn't like visits to the vet's.
		She has gotten good response from pet owners who like the idea of house calls, but much of this has come from owners of larger animals.
	wiscassetnewspaper.maine.com /2005-05-26/new_veterinarian.html (611 words)

	Questions & Answers About House Calls, Inc. - Home Plans for Maine & New England
		Depending on the particulars of the house plan and the modifications that you may want, it is generally an inexpensive process and can usually be completed quite quickly.
		If the house is to the right of the garage, breezeway, or side entry it is right hand plan.
		If you contact us with your number and a time to call, we will try to return your call at a time convenient for you.
	www.housecallsinc.com /qa-house-plans.asp (2042 words)

	Big Brother House Calls Video - Big Brother 7: All-Stars on CBS
		If you are on an older computer or using an obscure or outdated browser, you may have to upgrade to watch the show.
		This is set up by your network administrator and is not related to the House Calls webcast.
		All the episodes of House Calls are available on the Big Brother website in the House Calls Archive video section.
	www.cbs.com /primetime/bigbrother7/housecalls/faq.shtml (293 words)

	USATODAY.com - These people do make house calls and business is good (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As time becomes an increasingly precious commodity, a number of businesses are going mobile — taking their services on the road to make house calls.
		In the Seattle area, residents can hire a plant expert who makes horticultural house calls, coming to homes to help prune a plant or perk up a lawn.
		He makes house calls to sharpen such tools as scissors, barber tools, saw blades and anything else that can get rusty or dull.
	www.usatoday.com /money/workplace/2005-01-16-house-calls_x.htm?csp=34 (1047 words)

	Cherrydale@Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cherrydale Veterinary Clinic is pleased to announce the launch of “Cherrydale@Home”, a house call extension of our standing clinic near the Ballston area of Arlington, Virginia.
		CVC was founded in 1972 and in celebrating the clinic’s 30th anniversary, we brainstormed to find new ways of serving the Arlington pet-owning community.
		Cherrydale@Home will offer house calls for a variety of needs: examinations for sick pets and routine check-ups with vaccinations for healthy pets, as well as elective dental or surgical procedures.....right at the client’s doorstep.
	www.cherrydalevet.com /housecalls (287 words)

	House Calls by Oncologists: A Home-Visit Primer -- Karnad 20 (17): 3745 -- Journal of Clinical Oncology
		House Calls by Oncologists: A Home-Visit Primer -- Karnad 20 (17): 3745 -- Journal of Clinical Oncology
		In conclusion, house calls embody the spirit of one of a physician’s
		Meyers GS, Gibbons RV: House calls to the elderly: A vanishing practice among physicians.
	www.jco.org /cgi/content/full/20/17/3745 (1187 words)

	House calls return - By JOHN DARLING - for the Mail Tribune - July 3, 2006
		He always said he'd be there as soon as he could — and he was, always on the same day, sometimes in the evening," she said.
		Practitioners making house calls take in the patient's home environment and lifestyle, looking at what's in the patient's kitchen, whether there are hazards in the home, etc.
		Triune prefers to limit house calls to patients who've already undergone an exam in its clinic at 916 Town Centre Drive.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2006/0703/local/stories/housecalls-jd.htm (656 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- House calls are back
		She is part of a Medicare experiment testing whether house calls can improve recipients' health and save taxpayers money.
		Beatty is part of a Medicare experiment to see if old-fashioned house calls can improve the health of some of the agency's sickest beneficiaries while saving taxpayers money.
		House call doctors travel with miniaturized versions of X-ray machines and other high-tech hospital devices.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20061008-9999-lz1b8house.html (1689 words)

	The American Geriatrics Society - Position Statement: Ambulatory Geriatric Care (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Considerations of time and economy require that house calls should be planned to produce maximum efficiency and effectiveness (4).
		Many academic institutions are bereft of adequate clinical role models and potential educators for house calls due to inattention to the rapid advances in the technological capabilities available in the home care setting and because of inadequate remuneration for the primary service, let alone the added expense of instructing trainees.
		Practitioners providing house calls cannot possibly see the same number of patients they cover in the office due to travel time between patients.
	www.americangeriatrics.org /products/positionpapers/housecallPF.shtml (1112 words)

	In the home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		House Calls are available for Santa Clara County residents.
		House Calls are available weekdays and Saturdays during daylight hours to suit your schedule.
		If you are interested, call (800) 548-1882 to schedule an appointment, or click here to submit an online Water-wise House Call request.
	www.valleywater.org /Water/Water_conservation/In_the_home/index.shtm (329 words)

	AlterNet: Election 2004: House Calls
		In the past, Koch told the canvassers on his bus, all these organizations would concentrate their resources on key voter areas without coordinating their efforts, sending volunteers to the same doors, leaving reams of literature on everything from clean water to gun control to reproductive rights.
		The next voter mobilization wave will consist of phone calls to voters based on the information Johanna’s group and previous “waves” collected – calls to those who are leaning toward or are strongly for Kerry to assist them in the registration process and to let them know where they can vote.
		One of Santiago's first houses had a flag waving by the door and a pot full of nearly perfect purple daisies on the steps leading up to it.
	www.alternet.org /election04/19952 (2520 words)

	CNN.com - Small-town rallies to keep doctor who makes house calls - July 31, 2000
		They are raising money for a clinic for the doctor known for making house calls on his son's bike if his car isn't available.
		The community is accustomed to Davis' personalized brand of medicine, from making house calls to standing by at soccer, football and baseball games in case of medical emergencies.
		I called Dr. Davis and he came right down on a Saturday to take the Play-doh out," said Debra Ramos, the editor of the weekly Winters Express and a patient of Davis' since 1986.
	www.cnn.com /2000/HEALTH/07/31/house.calls.ap/index.html (983 words)

	USATODAY.com - House committee calls NCAA hearing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing Sept. 14 into the way the NCAA governs college sports, Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., announced Wednesday.
		Bachus said the hearing before the House Judiciary Committee will concern actions taken by the NCAA in its investigations of university programs.
		Bachus has said his call for a hearing was not prompted by a specific case, but the NCAA has drawn criticism in his state for its probes of Alabama and Auburn in recent years.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/college/2004-09-08-congress-hearing_x.htm (275 words)

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