Sevadar Foundation serves residents of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities and their families, veterans, neighbors experiencing homelessness, and people on long-term opioid therapy.
Four populations, reached through four divisions. They have one thing in common: each is easy to stop looking at.
Residents of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities
A person in a nursing home has, by definition, lost the ability to leave and describe what is happening to them. Their family visits on a schedule. Their facility’s owner may be two states away. Between those two points is a building where the specific, physical details of daily life — whether the call light reaches the bed, whether the handrail runs the full corridor — determine whether the person gets hurt.
CareGuard serves that resident indirectly, by serving the people who can act: families, staff and ownership. CareGuard →
Families of those residents
Families are the most common people to notice a problem and the least likely to know where to take it. They are also, reliably, afraid that raising it will make things worse for their relative. That fear is the reason a confidential reporting channel exists at all. Confidentiality and retaliation.
Veterans
Veterans appear on both sides of this foundation’s work. They are served by Valor Medica — medical care, PTSD and trauma care, recovery support, vocational training. They also do the facility reviews for CareGuard. Keeping those two roles distinct is deliberate: nobody is asked to work in exchange for care. Veterans in this work →
Neighbors experiencing homelessness
Medicine assumes an address, a phone and a way to get to an appointment. A person sleeping in a car has none of the three and therefore does not exist to most of the health system — not because anyone decided to exclude them, but because every process quietly requires things they do not have.
Read more: You cannot treat someone you cannot find.
People on long-term opioid therapy
There is a population for whom opioid therapy is appropriate, for whom it is working, and for whom abrupt discontinuation is itself a serious harm. The last fifteen years of policy have served that population badly by treating the medication as the only variable. IntellaRx works on the other variable: whether anyone is actually monitoring. IntellaRx →
Who we do not serve
The foundation does not accept patients, does not take referrals and does not run a helpline. If you need care, the division is the door. If you need a regulator, the state survey agency and the long-term care ombudsman are the door. What we are not →
Questions
Who does Sevadar Foundation serve?
Sevadar Foundation serves four populations that are easy to stop looking at: residents of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities and their families, veterans, neighbors experiencing homelessness, and people on long-term opioid therapy. CareGuard works on behalf of nursing home residents and their families, Valor Medica serves veterans, and IntellaRx works on monitoring for people on long-term opioid therapy.
Can I get medical care or a referral from Sevadar Foundation?
No. The foundation itself does not accept patients, does not take referrals and does not run a helpline. If you need care, go through the division that serves your situation, such as Valor Medica for veterans. If you need a regulator, contact your state survey agency or the long-term care ombudsman.
How does Sevadar Foundation help veterans?
Veterans are served by Valor Medica, which offers medical care, PTSD and trauma care, recovery support and vocational training. Veterans also carry out facility reviews for CareGuard. The foundation keeps those two roles separate on purpose: nobody is ever asked to work in exchange for care.
What can a family do about a problem in a nursing home?
Families are often the first to notice a problem and the least sure where to take it, usually because they fear that raising it will make things worse for their relative. CareGuard offers a confidential reporting channel for exactly that reason. For a regulatory complaint, the state survey agency and the long-term care ombudsman are the right door.