Escaping the Health Care Hamster Wheel
In this week's episode of Take Charge with HELPcare, Nurse Practitioner Danae Boorsma describes her health care journey that led to a literal journey for herself and her family, leaving her traditional insurance-based practice in southern California to move to southern Minnesota to join HELPcare Clinic.
It felt like you're a hamster in a spinning wheel, but you're not going anywhere. You know, it's just a broken system. And the longer I practiced in that system, the more I could see that as much as I wanted and desired to help these people, it wasn't working.
Danae had first become aware of HELPcare Clinic through her mother, Sandy Roe, who was one of our Founding Members. After following our progress and growth for a couple of years and hearing about her mom's experience, Danae reached out in February 2024 to start a conversation about joining the practice.
By May, Danae and her husband had decided to make the move to Minnesota with their children to be closer to family and for her to become a HELPcare Clinic practitioner. She started with us in October and has been a great addition to the team, playing a major role in helping us serve the new HELPcare Clinic members who joined through employer-based plans such as the Mower County Health Plan.
When we interviewed Danae for the podcast six months into HELPcare Clinic experience, she said it has been just the change she needed:
I would definitely 100% recommend HELPcare as a place to work. It's a wonderful opportunity. I think that being able to trade that rat race kind of a system where you're just churning the patients and not really feeling like you are helping them as well as you could, and you want more.
You know, there's a wonderful experience here at HELPcare in that we have the time with each patient. You know, we have enough time to be able to really dig into their biggest issues and start to formulate a plan and work on that and chip away at it. And we have the freedom to try new things. We have the collaboration already in place.
And then you have Lee and his team who have set up the administrative side so you can start your practice and have a piece of ownership that I personally would have never gone out and done on my own. And I think that if somebody were to come to me and say, you know, “I'm burnt out in the traditional system,” I would say, “Come join us. This is the place to work because you're not going to feel that way. You're going to have time with each patient. You're going to have support that you need. If you need additional resources in some way, they're going to back you up.”
Here's the full interview:
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Danae also is featured along with the other three (so far!) HELPcare Clinic practitioners in this new video that highlights the differences between HELPcare and practicing in the insurance-dominated system:
We're growing and planning expansion, so we're looking for more practitioners who resonate with this approach to primary care and share our GOT LIFE values.
If that's you, we'd love to start a conversation with you as we did with Danae last year about being part of the HELPcare Clinic team. Check out our HELPcare Careers page.
If this type of care is what you've been looking for as a patient, see how our membership approach can work for you.
If you're an employer looking for better care for your employees while keeping health plan costs under control, learn more about Health Insurance with HELPcare.
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