The cost of inclusion By: Craig Dresang, CEO, YoloCares For nearly 50 years, our organization has provided individualized end-of-life care and unparalleled support –without bias and without condition –to every person regardless of political affiliation, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical or mental ability, background, personal ideology, or even citizenship. Period. Moreover, the […]
What the doctor didn’t say
What the doctor didn’t say By: Craig Dresang, CEO, YoloCares Warning: This story is personal. A friend of mine who I have known for nearly 40 years recently died in a Sacramento hospital. We met while attending graduate school in Chicago during the late 1980s. Chuck grew up in San Mateo but ventured […]
There is always more we can do
There is always more we can do By: Craig Dresang, CEO, YoloCares At the end of every patient visit, YoloCares clinicians are trained to ask the patient/family a single question: “Is there anything more I can do for you? I have time.” It is simple, almost trite, but the answer to this question […]
A Season of Ofrendas
A Season of Ofrendas By: Craig Dresang, CEO, YoloCares In her 1995 book, “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World,” poet and author Linda Hogan writes: “Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there is smoke […]
What it takes to be in the top 1%
What it takes to be in the top 1% By: Craig Dresang, CEO, YoloCares Davis and Sacramento are now home to one of the highest quality end-of-life care providers, and employers, in the nation. In August, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), released their quarterly quality-of-patient-care scores, clearly showing that YoloCares […]
A Caring Coalition for California
A Caring Coalition for California By: Craig Dresang, CEO, YoloCares I n his closing remarks at a 2016 stakeholder meeting, hosted by the National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Victor Dzau (academy president) said, “We need a coalition, a movement, a critical mass. We need to work together so that the whole is greater than […]
