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Hands On Medicine Staff: Introductions

"It is my mission to make health accessible and sustainable for families living in N/NE Portland. It is my dream to provide primary care to families in the city I grew up in, in my neighborhood, for the duration of my career. It's about quality of life. I love walking to work and look forward to practicing here until I am an old woman." Shelda R. Holmes Family Nurse Practitioner, Owner Meet Shelda .
Chip Shields, MSW Hands On Medicine Business Manager		Jodi Dauphinais, CMA Certified Medical Assistant	Jacob Aiello Accounts Manager

Health Care Reform Brief

We at Hands On Medicine full-heartedly support health care reform. We believe health care should be a right. Health care access should be granted equally to everyone. We believe each of us should responsibly use the health care system and treat our bodies, families, and environment with care so that health is attainable. Unfortunately in the United States health care is not a right. Health care is provided and managed largely in a for-profit model. Hands On Medicine is doing the best we can to advocate for our patients, create a better health care system and improve the public health infrastructure. We are simultaneously attempting to provide health for our staff, families and selves through our work as health care providers and clinic owners.

Primary care providers are among the hardest working and most dedicated medical professionals. Many, like us, could have chosen to enter a more lucrative field of medicine. Our love for our work far exceeds the financial benefits we may have received by taking another road. Owner Shelda Holmes is fond of saying "I do it for the quality of life, not the money. I want to contribute to my family and community in ways I cannot in other practices." Her husband, Chip Shields, is fond of stating "Hands On Medicine is a non-profit, but not by design.." Regardless, we have faith that the state of health care management in our country will change for the better and thereby the health of communities will also improve.

Environmental Commitment

We use reusable cloth gowns (imagine no uncomfortable paper gowns). We do laundry and clean using the least hazardous materials possible. We sterilize the equipment we can for reuse via an autoclave. We cycle! We recycle we use an electronic medical record system instead of paper charts. We are always thinking about how we can reduce our contribution to medical waste. For more information regarding this unfortunate side-effect of medical advances: www.hercenter.org/wastereduction/overview.cfm.