A Clearer Path: Hospice of Redmond Evolves into ClearPath Healthcare, Launching In-Home Primary Care
For decades, we have been known as Hospice of Redmond, faithfully serving Central Oregon with compassionate end-of-life care. We are expanding our commitment to community healthcare by launching a new in-home primary care program to serve older adults who have difficulty accessing their primary care physician.
For homebound seniors, primary care services can be difficult to access. Driven by this reality, we are launching our in-home primary care program, with services beginning in April of 2026. Anyone interested can reach out and sign up now. By leveraging our decades of expertise in high-quality, in-home medical care, we will bring our clinicians to patients, ensuring stable, accessible healthcare for our most vulnerable neighbors.
This expansion required a new identity to match our broader mission. In December 2025, we officially rebranded as ClearPath Healthcare.
While our name has changed and our services have expanded, our commitment to meeting a critical community need and ensuring everyone in Central Oregon has a clear path to the care they deserve, right where they live, remains the same.
Why the Name Change?
The decision to change our name came as we reassessed our current reality and future offerings. Admittedly, the name Hospice of Redmond implied that our organization offered only hospice and served only the city limits of Redmond. This is not true.
- We have served all of Central Oregon since 1979.
- In addition to the hospice care we have been providing, we also offer:
- Transitions – a free case management program for people diagnosed with a serious illness.
- Free community bereavement support to those grieving the loss of a loved one, as well as a three-day overnight grief camp for grieving children called Camp Sunrise.
- Spiritual Care, honoring all faiths and beliefs, to support the needs of the individual.
- Pet Peace of Mind, the only program of its kind in Central Oregon, enables hospice patients to keep their pets at home throughout the end-of-life journey.
- We Honor Veterans Partner: Our Level 5 designation, the highest in the program, reflects our deep commitment, advanced training, and excellence in caring for veterans and their families.
With the addition of in-home primary care, we knew we needed a name that better reflected the full range of services we offer our community. As Executive Director, Jane McGuire stated, “We want to walk alongside the patient and provide a clear path for their healthcare with them. This could look like in-home primary care, transitions, or hospice care.”
The new name, ClearPath Healthcare, better reflects the full spectrum of services we offer our community.
Why In-Home Primary Care?
We have identified a need in our community, and our long history of providing high-quality in-home services uniquely qualifies us to address it with our new in-home primary care service.
Bringing Care to the Patient
Our in-home primary care service is exciting because people often struggle getting in to see their primary care provider—whether that is due to:
- Challenges of physically leaving their home: This is especially true for seniors who no longer drive or those managing serious conditions like dementia. Transportation to appointments can become inconvenient and costly.
- Caring for a loved one: Caregiving can lead to burnout, often causing both the patient and caregiver to neglect their own health. In-home primary care can be provided to both the patient and the caregiver.
- Living alone: Many Central Oregonians live alone, have limited mobility, and lack local family to provide support.
By visiting patients in their homes, we make it easier for them to be seen, serving patients from the southern end of Bend up to Madras, east to Prineville, and west to Camp Sherman, and everything in between.
Our patients may include seniors 55 and older, medically complex patients, veterans with behavioral health needs, patients recently discharged from the hospital, family caregivers overwhelmed by 24/7 care, and adults in group homes or supported-living settings.
Our Model
Our goal is not to compete with existing primary care clinics, but to provide high-quality, unhurried care in a patient’s home, whether that be a physical home or facility. Our goal is to support our primary care clinics by seeing patients who cannot attend their appointments and are not receiving care. The program will offer:
- Long Visits: Each visit lasts approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour, allowing our clinician to spend time with the patient and help them understand their care plan.
- Membership: To cover travel time costs, our in-home primary care is offered as a membership plan. We will bill insurance for medical services received, as a traditional clinic would.
- The membership covers as many visits as needed to ensure the patient receives the care they require, whether once per month or more frequently due to changes in their health status.
- Proactive Care: We aim to ensure prompt, dependable access to care, reserving same-day appointments for urgent concerns.
Our team-led approach integrates home visits, telehealth check-ins, chronic care management, remote patient monitoring, caregiver engagement, and advanced care planning — all tailored to the patient’s daily reality.
“Our heart is to serve the people who cannot access the clinic, and to give them a clear path to better health.”
-Jane McGuire, Executive Director, ClearPath Healthcare
We encourage anyone interested in our in-home primary care program to sign up on our new website at clearpathhealthcare.org. For questions about our primary care, call 541-323-0853.
