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After spending his entire career serving the Tillamook community as an internist and hospitalist, Dr. Calvin Hill knows there鈥檚 no place like home. That reality took on deeper meaning last spring when this retired doctor became a patient.

After volunteering for 10 days with a youth camp building project in the central Oregon Cascades, Dr. Hill headed down a winding mountain highway on his way home to Tillamook. Suddenly there was horrendous bang. Bags were hanging all around him, and white powder filled the air. 鈥淚 looked out of the windshield and saw this very big tree in the hood,鈥� Dr. Hill recalls. 鈥淚 hurt. My chest and my foot hurt terribly.鈥�

Rushed to St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon, Dr. Hill was diagnosed with a fractured spine, 15 fractured ribs, bruised lungs and his right foot completely crushed by the car鈥檚 engine. After two weeks and spine surgery in Bend, plus several days in Portland and foot reconstruction surgery at Oregon Health & Sciences University hospital, Dr. Hill was discharged.

But he wasn鈥檛 ready to be home. 鈥淭here was no way I could go home at that point,鈥� he explains. He couldn鈥檛 bear weight on his right foot and could only sit up for short periods.

Dr. Hill鈥檚 care coordinators made arrangements with 网曝门事件 Health Tillamook for skilled transitional nursing care right in his local medical center. Through this special program, patients done with acute hospital care but not ready to be home can get the nursing care they need right on the Oregon coast.

鈥淕etting home to Tillamook was so nice,鈥� Dr. Hill says. 鈥淚 was coming home to my friends.鈥� 网曝门事件 Health Tillamook鈥檚 skilled nursing program meant Dr. Hill could have his physical and occupational therapy provided in-house by providers who knew him personally.

Even when Dr. Hill was ready to leave skilled nursing after eight days, the 网曝门事件 Health team helped him adjust to recovering at home. They instructed Dr. Hill and his wife how to keep him safe and avoid falls by adding ramps and bars to their home.

鈥淚鈥檓 now a very experienced patient,鈥� Dr. Hill says. 鈥淲hen you鈥檙e flat on your back, too weak to move and can鈥檛 even move your arms to feed yourself, you realize how important it is to have very kind, gentle and competent people taking care of you.鈥�

Though Dr. Hill is still recovering from his injuries and subsequent months in bed, he now aims to walk at least 10,000 steps each day. He鈥檚 able to drive again, and he鈥檚 looking forward to a bird-watching trip to Ecuador. Fitted with BiPAP nighttime breathing support, he won鈥檛 be falling asleep at the wheel, and he鈥檚 more motivated than ever to be an active part of his community.

鈥淧rayer saved my life. Expert care put me back together again,鈥� he says.