White Valley Care is a medical innovation crafted as Ghana’s most reliable Chronic Disease Management Center. Our mission is to assist you improve the quality of life lived upon diagnosis of a chronic illness; encouraging independence, respect, dignity and compassion under the highest clinical and ethical standards of healthcare practices. Since inception, we have created multiple products and service lines based on client’s request and a passionate heart to develop innovative ideas that match up our clientele needs; structured by direct impartation of 20 year-chronic-healthcare-management experience and a dedicated research team that continuously test our solution to serve their purpose. Our concept is spiced by a seasoned business strategist’s insights and the passion of a human rights activist who ensures that we are in good standing ethically and legally.
There is a significant need for quality health care within the country for people who have been diagnosed with life-limiting/threatening illness in the past few years which has not been met as expected. Palliative medicine is a medical specialty that helps patients, who are faced with a potentially life-threatening illness, and their families live as fully as possible until death and beyond. Palliative care aims to alleviate suffering and promote quality of life, and addresses physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. Palliative care requires an excellent knowledge of disease process and symptom management, high-level nursing care, psychological, social, and spiritual support and compassion. Therefore, it is best delivered using a multi-disciplinary team approach.
In reality the concept of specific chronic care solutions is non-existing in Ghana. We have so far, as a country, not particularly embraced any specifically tailored solution specifically designed towards meeting chronic care needs. The largest healthcare model, employer, and policy creator& implementer- Ghana Health Service (GHS) depends on its Non-Communicable Disease Division (NCD) Program to manage chronic conditions in its structure. By its name, definition and mandate the NCD automatically finds solutions for non-infectious conditions commonly hypertension, diabetes, and the relating CVA or you know as strokes.
The WHO however defines chronic care around any medical condition that is expected to span around a time frame of 6 months to a life time. The world body goes ahead to expand the circle towards conditions like Chronic Pain, Ulcer/Wound, HIV/AIDS, Renal conditions, Cancers, Sickle cell, Depression, Alzheimer’s Disease etc. with prevalence factors that can run up to 70-75% by race, blood group, gender and DNA composition; not to even consider the predisposing factors such as obesity, lack of exercise and stress that we live our life through daily. This makes it clear that chronic care is within the infectious and non-infectious scope.
Now, the truth be told, life happens, and when it does, we get directly or indirectly affected by chronic conditions unexpectedly; as to how we completely recover or we run the rest of our race with it, for whatever time left for us to attempt fulfilling purpose, is based on practical solutions we don’t specifically find in a chronic care model scope in Ghana until White Valley Care came into existence.
The recent population census counted over 8.3 million households in Ghana. Records from WHO and MOH suggests that about 77 – 80% of our population households are hit by a chronic condition in a direct or indirect way yearly. Permit me to ask what is the exact tailored solution to this most unexpected and mostly inevitable life’s slap on our faces? What exactly do we have planned for that amazing banker, the corporate mother, the dedicated daughter and the concerned son to be able to meet up these demands of life places on them and still stand a chance to hit their maximum productivity levels?
Some other solutions out there aim to solve your chronic care situations with acute care models. White Valley Care is built on palliative care principles. Palliative Medicine by WHO definition is medical specialty that helps patients with their significant others to live as fully as possible until death and beyond in the face of serious, chronic and potentially life-threatening illnesses in a carefully planned holistic care concept. Palliative care aims to alleviate suffering and promote quality of life, and addresses physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. Palliative care requires an excellent knowledge of disease process and symptom management, high-level nursing care admits all other needed special areas with spirituality, cultural and ethical considerations. Therefore, it is best delivered using a multi-disciplinary team approach.
We, at White Valley Care have researched thoroughly to provide this multi-disciplinary approach system in one stop. We build our solutions with patient-and-significant-others-first approach, providing care in homelike environment (preferred setting), giving you a stress-free life and championing positive change.
In the past two years, we have tirelessly responded to over 700 hundred home calls, seen hundreds of households repeatedly in major cities all over Ghana; and have provided unique solutions tailored with holistic care to meet the individual needs of the calls with have received. We have successfully raised an income near 250,000$ tapping into just 0.0001% of the potential over 1.8 billion dollar market out there.
It’s time that we wake up as a country to pull in plans for Chronic Care Management and to meet up the needs of people who need palliative care. W.H.O. says that only 14% of the world’s palliative care needs are actually met. It is this serious people!!! Join hands with White Valley Care, to make our germane chronic care solutions accessible, affordable and timely to all corners of this country; replicating our planned Chronic Care Center around the country to ease our teaching and regional hospitals off unnecessary pressure that is tearing them down from structure to concept. Always bear in mind, if it is chronic care, it must be White Valley’s; the germane solution.
who is from a highly valued and respected nursing practice background in Chronic care over two decades of experience in Ghana and USA. With passion to revolutionalise the systems and policies with the best in healthcare practices; she meets up in a life-time opportunity, as excellent business strategist on the Ghanaian market.
is a hardworking businessman who has thrived hard to mature multiple business lines successfully but humbly prefers to always be the silent face in majority of his A class innovations.
Our concepts the got cultivated through the hands of the astute Esq. Michelle Owusu-Ansah, a Ghanaian born in Canada, who is a human rights activist , a philanthropist and entrepreneur joted in multiple NGOs mostly recognised by the United Nations.