Take Charge with HELPcare
Podcast Description
Take Charge with HELPcare is your guide to taking charge of your health and your health care. If you're an employer paying for health insurance, it will help you Take Charge of Your Health Plan. And if you're a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant, it will show you how you can Take Charge of Your Health Care Career.
HELPcare LLC provides management services to HELP practitioners escape the hamster wheel to become owners of a HELPcare Clinic direct primary care (DPC) practice, and metabolic health coaching to help patients prevent or even reverse disease.
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The podcast addresses various topics such as direct primary care models, metabolic health, and the evolution of healthcare communication. Episodes include discussions on the challenges of traditional insurance practices, the importance of patient empowerment through social media, and personal narratives from healthcare professionals like Dr. Dave Strobel, illustrating the critical need for innovative approaches in medicine.

Take Charge with HELPcare is your guide to taking charge of your health and your health care. If you’re an employer paying for health insurance, it will help you Take Charge of Your Health Plan. And if you’re a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant, it will show you how you can Take Charge of Your Health Care Career.
HELPcare LLC provides management services to HELP practitioners escape the hamster wheel to become owners of a HELPcare Clinic direct primary care (DPC) practice, and metabolic health coaching to help patients prevent or even reverse disease.
Why do we wait until people are “sick enough” before helping them get healthy?
In this episode of the Take Charge with HELPcare Podcast, Lee Aase and Dan Hinmon welcome Sara Persinger, DNP, one of HELPcare’s newest nurse practitioners. Sara shares her journey from growing up on a Wisconsin dairy farm to working at Mayo Clinic and ultimately finding her calling in relationship-based primary care.
They talk about the difference between managing disease and pursuing optimal health, why the traditional system often misses early warning signs, and how the HELPcare model allows practitioners to spend the time needed to truly understand and help patients.
Sara also shares a powerful story about how slowing down in a patient visit created space for a conversation that turned out to be far more important than the reason the patient came in.
If you’ve ever felt rushed through a healthcare visit or wondered why prevention often comes too late, this conversation will give you a new perspective.
It’s time to Take Charge of your health.

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