Navigate healthcare to your best advantage:

Align care with personal goals and avoid  the ER

– Welcome! This site was originally created in 2014 as a place to stash favorite resources for my own work as a nurse practitioner providing house calls for seniors in the Metro Detroit area.

– Over time, it has become useful to my coworkers, students, patients and their caregivers. 

– Most items focus on advance care planning and palliative care. It can also be useful to primary care physicians, home care nurses, discharge planners and anyone else with a goal to help people age well in place.

My hope is to strengthen partnerships between complex patients and their primary care physician, and help both make the most of neighborhood care services to stay home and reduce time spent in the hospital.

– This is something I use personally for my own practice to provide resources and education.  It is shared freely in case it will help others, and it is never medical advice.  

– The website comes with an automatic prompt to accept cookies, but I do not use or benefit from them. There will never be advertisements and I do not collect or use visitor data.  

– Since this is a library / resource storage site, I do not reply to comments or questions here. You may submit a topic request via the Contact form and if it will be of general interest it may prompt a new post.  Anything posted here is intended to be shared freely. 

– I hope you find something useful here!

About

Donna Westmoreland, FNP-BC is a Family Nurse Practitioner in Southeast Michigan who  has provided house calls for over 20 years: 10 as a visiting nurse and 10+ as a Primary Care, Hospice and Palliative medical provider. She is passionate about educating families and clinicians to navigate a complex healthcare system to their own advantage. 

Donna

Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’  This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 

Matthew 22:37-39