Nurse Makes House Calls To Low-Income Patients

THORNTON, CO - FEBRUARY 24: Registered nurse Susan Eager (L) helps up Jane Awise, who suffers from severe diabetes, while performing a home health care visit on February 24, 2010 in Thornton, Colorado. Awise has health insurance but says she pays about $400 each month in co-pays to treat her chronic disease. Eager works for the Dominican Sisters Home Health Agency, a non-profit that performs some 25,000 home visits each year in the Denver area. It provides free home nursing care to patients with chronic diseases, helps them to better manage their disabling illnesses and provides custodial services with the aim of keeping patients in their homes and out of more expensive nursing home care. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)