Carena is the first to offer house calls as part of a company health plan.
Another solution is relocating nurses from central clinics to rural villages and having them make house calls.
Much of the current marketing campaign is being conducted on foot, with salesmen and other workers making house calls.
House calls from doctors--a throwback to folksier times--is a new perk for employees.
Then Harding remembered a health benefit that Microsoft had just announced: house calls.
Their marketing plan: selling through retail outlets, on the one hand, and sales reps who make house calls, on the other.
Nurses treated patients at the house in the morning, and then took to their mopeds in the afternoons to make house calls.
By then Bhavarlal's sons had joined the family trade and were involved with him in grassroots marketing, making house calls on farmers.
By partnering with faith-based organizations, local businesses and other nonprofits, the group can call upon hundreds of volunteers to make house calls.
Doctors are sending assistants to make house calls on their behalf, sending back instant video streams from their mobile phones for consultation.
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Staffers educate patients about managing their disease and medications and make house calls if necessary to check on patients and troubleshoot problems.
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Then he suavely juggled two genres: romantic comedy (A New Leaf, House Calls) and 32 years of grumpy-buddy movies with Jack Lemmon.
The University of California, San Francisco, offers house calls and a special program for heart-failure patients, who have the highest rates of re-hospitalization.
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White House calls for a ban on assault weapons and a limit on the capacity of ammunition magazines have not gained traction in Congress.
However both he and Exum added that though they appreciated the White House calls, they were already staunch supporters of stricter gun control legislation.
We can't hope that consumers will accept a whole new cottage industry designed to remotely manage the home network and make round-the-clock house calls when needed.
Like the monarch in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Lafley often makes house calls incognito to find out what's on the minds of his subjects.
While there, I set up a small medical team and went to the villages in the evenings after clinic, making house calls on patients too ill to get to the clinic site.
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To qualify even for these usurious loans, customers must pass inspection with an Elektra manager who checks reported salaries and an inspector who makes house calls to verify addresses and inventory possessions.
"Not many people do house calls, " she says on her way to a checkup on a 2-week old boy -- a visit she is making by car rather than bicycle because it's raining.
Others make house calls to comfort the elderly.
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On the other end of the spectrum, Medicare is experimenting with using house calls as a cheap way to provide care to old people with chronic illnesses rather than putting them in expensive nursing homes.
The new Sony stores will also offer the tech equivalent of house calls, dispatching a Sony employee to a customer's home in order to assess his or her needs, as well as recommend devices that fit their homes.
Some DPC providers such as WhiteGlove Health and Organic Medicine Now take it a step further and make house calls that harken back to the days of your family doctor stopping by your house just a few decades ago.
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The type of care provided by doctors who follow the concierge model is more like the medical care of the past: doctors have fewer patients and build personal relationships, make house calls, and in many cases, earn a better living than they would when dealing with insurance companies.
Bush's radio address is part of what the White House calls its summer strategy, having the president focus on what aides call "compassionate" issues, such as education, a plan to allow religious groups to obtain federal tax dollars to provide social services and the president's ideas for a patients' bill of rights.
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The House proposal calls for an increase of one-tenth of one percent over the same period.
The House bill calls upon schools to certify their students are proficient in English after they have logged at least three years in U.S. classrooms.
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