“Hopewell House has closed. You should care about that. We believe everyone should care, because its closing highlights a chasm in the continuum of health services needed to prevent people from suffering needlessly before dying.”

Eric Walsh, M.D., Board of Directors, Friends of Hopewell House

Former Hospice Director at Housecall Providers, Hospice Medical Director at Bronx Hospice Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, OHSU.

Ira Byock, M.D., FAAHPM, palliative care physician, author, and public advocate

Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Institute for Human Caring at Providence St. Joseph Health

Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Community & Family Medicine, Darmouth.

The professionals below are among the many leaders who endorse Friends of Hopewell House:

• Brian J. Druker, M.D.

• Woody English, M.D., former Medical Director of Palliative Care, Providence Health & Services

• Angela Kalisiak, M.D., Compass Oncology, retired

• Emily Morgan, M.D., Senior Geriatrics Faculty, OHSU

• Matthew Kern, LCSW, Housecall Providers

• Brian Leese, D.O., Hospice Medical Director

• Jocelyn C. White, M.D., FAAHPM, FACP, FAAPP, Medical Director, Legacy Hopewell House Hospice, retired

• Asher Caldwell, NP, OHSU Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic

• Fernando Serna, Chaplain, OHSU Palliative Care

• Laura Byerly, M.D., Geriatrician

• Sumathi Devarajan M.D., CMD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, OHSU

• Elizabeth Eckstrom M.D., MPH, Professor of Medicine and Chief of Geriatrics at OHSU

• Molly Osborne, M.D., PhD., Pulmonary & Critical Care, Professor Emerita of Medicine, OHSU

• Rev. Deb Mecartea, M.Div., BCC, Chaplain, OHSU

• Tyler Tate, M.D., M.A., Associate  Director of OHSU Center for Ethics in Healthcare

• Eriko Onishi, M.D., MCR, CMD,  Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, OHSU, palliative care physician with Salem Hospital, Signature Home, and Prestige Care & Rehabilitation

• Beth Cavenaugh RN, BSN, CHPN

• Natalie Lanocha, M.D., OHSU Bridges Palliative Care team

• Greg Harpel, LCSW

• Craig Tanner, M.D., former Medical Director of Legacy Hospice and Hopewell House, former Medical Director of Palliative Care at Kaiser Permanente

• Marci Donaldson RN, BSN

• Monica Holland MSN PNP-BC, Nurse Practitioner/Bridges Pediatric Palliative Care 

• Bob Macauley, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.A.H.P.M.

• Maija Mikkelsen, MDiv

• Sarah Taub, M.D., Assistant Professor, OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Bridges Palliative Care Program

• Guy Keplinger, RN Coordinator, OHSU Bridges Pediatric Palliative Care

• Elizabeth Layton, RN, BSN

• Susan Hedlund, LCSW, FAOSW-Director of Patient & Family Services –Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Sciences University

• Lindsay Wooster-Halberg, LCSW, APHSW-C, Social Worker, Bridges Pediatric Palliative Care Team