WHO ARE WE?
We are an inspired team of health care professionals who understand that people are more than their bodies, more than their diseases, and more than the challenges they face.
ResolutionCare Network
ResolutionCare is a Palliative Care Team, bringing the best possible control of pain and other symptoms as well as skills, experience, and wisdom to support people in making the best possible choices for themselves on their own terms.
Restoring tradition, the ResolutionCare Team returns the center of care and support to the home by seeing patients only with house calls and virtual house calls.
ResolutionCare is simply an independent rural palliative care team.
ResolutionCare Institute
ResolutionCare Institute uses the same videoconferencing technology and interdisciplinary team (through a rigorously defined Resource Sharing Agreement), and, empowered by our licensed affiliation with the University of New Mexico’s Project ECHO model, our goal is to powerfully enhance the basic palliative care skill set of a diversity of healthcare providers in a diversity of practice settings where people with serious illness receive care, like Medical Oncology practices and Cancer Care programs.
Dr. Michael Fratkin on ResolutionCare
Catch and Release – Finding Life in Death | Dr. Michael Fratkin at TEDxEureka
Models and Strategies to Integrate Palliative Care Principles into Serious Illness Care | The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Dr. Michael Fratkin on the PBS Newshour | Telemedicine connects rural patients facing serious illness.
ResolutionCare Stories
… a mystic | Interview with Jose “‘Tisart” Vilamil
… a silver lining | Interview with Jitka Prokesova
… a smith | Interview with Dick Kersh
RECENT NEWS
November 2019
Hospices, Palliative Providers Innovate to Better Serve Rural Patients
By Jim Parker at Hospice News, 11/21/19 “Rural families have less access to hospice care programs than people in more [...]
June 2019
Telemedicine 3.0: How Video Technology Can Support People With Serious Illness
by Michael Fratkin at the Center to Advance Palliative Care's Palliative in Practice Blog, 6/12/19 "The accelerating pace of technology [...]
April 2019
Resolution Care Network with Dr. Michael Fratkin
An interview with Dr. Michael Fratkin by Sheryl Smith on the engAGING conversations podcast at sherylsmithrn.com. "Technology and advances in medicine [...]
February 2019
Michael Fratkin: Soft Landings
By Stephen Waldron at B-TAC February 28, 2019 "Drawing on experience from palliative care leaders like Center to Advance Palliative Care Founder Diane [...]
10 Ways Great Companies Show Employees They Care
by Jillian Rodriguez at Small Giants Community, 2/4/19 ResolutionCare is featured under "Care for them as a whole person" in [...]
January 2019
Woo-Woo and the Hammer
By Thadeus Greenson in the North Coast Journal, 1/17/19 "Here's how Fratkin describes his approach to new patients: 'I let them know [...]
December 2018
Local Healthcare Company Focus of WaPo Story
by Thadeus Greenson at the North Coast Journal online, Wednesday 12/24/18. "In case you missed it, The Washington Postrecently put a spotlight [...]
November 2018
How California Is Changing Palliative Care
The Next Avenue story featured in Forbes. "Although other Medicaid programs may pay for components of palliative care — such [...]
Why California is a Hotbed for In-Home Palliative Care
By Tim Mullaney at Home Health Care News, November 27, 2018 "A Medicaid program in California is increasing access to palliative [...]
How California Is Changing Palliative Care
by Beth Baker at Next Avenue on November 27, 2018: [California's] Medicaid program takes a novel approach for some with life-threatening diseases. "In January, [...]
ResolutionCare Portrayals in Months to Years
Dr. Michael Fratkin collaborated with a friend, award winning photographer and journalist Justin Maxon, to produce a project in words and pictures they [...]
October 2018
Doctors Wait to See How CMS’ Opioid Changes Play Out for Patients in Pain
A look at concerns about opioid policies for patients on palliative care by Allison Inserro at AJMC, the American Journal [...]
An Interview with Carl Magruder on the This Time I Mean It Podcast
Scott ‘Q’ Marcus interviews ResolutionCare Director of Spiritual Support Services on the This Time I Mean It podcast. "Chaplain Magruder, [...]
Understanding Palliative Care, Dr. Michael Fratkin: Ep. 29
An interview with Dr. Fratkin by Dr. Bob Uslander of the Integrated MD Care podcast. "In this podcast interview, Dr. [...]
The talk: Younger brain cancer patients provide a model for patient empowerment
by Renata Khoshroo Louwers at SCOPE, 10/12/18 “In a 55-second video that is both playful and profound, patient advocates Liz Salmi and [...]
“My mother-in-law, Marie, was diagnosed with AML (acute myeloid leukemia) this past summer and died within 3 months of her diagnosis. … Dr. Fratkin was able to work with her by videoconferencing in spite of the great distance involved. It was amazing how quickly and easily he connected with Marie and her husband Bill at a human level. AML is a deadly disease, especially in the elderly. With Dr. Fratkin’s help, our family was able to help make the most of this painfully short time.”
“The diagnosis of cancer changed Crystal’s life in an instant and turned her into a fighting machine, focused only on fighting until her body would not fight anymore. After exhausting months of different hospitals, doctors and treatments a new specialist was introduced, Dr. Michael Fratkin, a palliative care specialist. Crystal’s life was changed again to a new focus-her fears answered, time to enjoy her days and those closest to her … Palliative care helped Crystal find her way. It made such a difference for her and her family-we all wished she could have started it much sooner. … Palliative care helped us through this difficult journey as a family and made a terrible situation for us the best we could have hoped for. Forever grateful.”
“Facing one’s own mortality is one of the greater challenges in life and asking a parent to face theirs is one of the more painful. … Dr. Fratkin, acting as my father’s Palliative Care doctor, did a masterful job of helping my father come to the realization that he was nearing the end of his life and that he would be best served by accepting Hospice care rather than attempting extreme medical procedures that would only keep him in the hospital for his final months, weeks and days. I’m very appreciative of the role that Dr. Fratkin played in leading my father down the path to what was in the end, a very peaceful death.”
“A compassionate doctor or nurse giving you his or her complete attention, listening and advising you through computer or mobile device while you are comfortably at home can be better than an in person meeting with that same provider in a clinic or hospital where distractions and time pressures weigh on you both. … It is amazing what a difference it can make to patients to feel that they have been heard and their unmet needs acknowledged.”
“When my father passed away, Dr. Fratkin helped guide my family through the experience. His presence and wisdom was invaluable during those difficult days. He and his team are fighting the good fight against the healthcare bureaucracy when it comes to mindful palliative care.”
“Palliative care is incredible because it treats our whole being, not simply our disease. It offers a more holistic and thus honest approach to caring for people.”
“Dr. Fratkin is a truly amazing physician and I am ever grateful for his passion of profession. “
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