Interim HealthCare of Orem UT

Interim HealthCare of Orem UT Interim HealthCare is focused on optimizing outcomes through personalized care powered by clinical e Interim HealthCare Utah was established in February 2014.

We have helped thousands of people age in their own homes safely with independence. We have also serviced hundreds of thousands of hours worked in health care facilities as a premier health care staffing agency. We serve all health care facilities, schools, correctional facilities, clinics and corporations.

07/23/2025

Stress and Worry. My name is Mike Hawkins, I am a retired, disabled veteran and own Interim HealthCare Utah. I was diagnosed with brain cancer at 49 years old and am writing short stories about my experiences through that challenge. I hope you find this beneficial. I don’t stress or worry about most things for 3 main reasons: First most of the things people worry about never happen. Second–when things do happen it rarely happens the way you thought it would. Finally, I have lived enough life and dealt with enough things that I feel no matter what happens, I can handle it. The one thing I always worry about is if something goes wrong, it better not be because I messed up. My favorite scene of all movies is in the movie The Right Stuff. In it Alan Shepard is about to be the first American launched into space and the likelihood of a catastrophic failure and death was high. He said a short prayer: “Dear Lord, please don’t let me f**k up.” He didn’t care if he blew up and died, just don’t let it be his fault. This is such beautiful ownership.

07/22/2025

Kentucky Derby, BirthDay and a Beautiful Mustache! My name is Mike Hawkins, I am a retired, disabled veteran and own Interim HealthCare Utah. I was diagnosed with brain cancer at 49 years old and am writing short stories about my experiences through that challenge. I hope you find this beneficial. 6 months after my bone marrow transplant, I was still very physically disabled–I was using a wheelchair full time. My 50th birthday happened to be on the same day as the Kentucky Derby so we decided to have a party. Our Derby parties have become a thing we get excited for every year. We dress up, Natalie wore a very cute white and pink dress and big pink hat. I wore a pink suit, pink bow tie and pink derby hat–we were adorable. My buddy Mike Bridges made pimento sandwiches, we had chicken nuggets, deserts and of course mint juleps. Mint Juleps are 100% gross so we had a lemonade version that was much more drinkable. I had a mustache going through chemo, I refused to shave thinking the chemo would kill it. I wanted a mustache for the derby but seeing it gave Natalie some cancer PTSD. So I grew a beard. Before the derby we went to a barber. I told him Michelangelo aid every piece of stone has a statue inside and it’s the artist’s task to discover it. I told my barber the beard has a beautiful mustache inside and his task is to discover it. I said I wanted to look like a Civil War colonel. He did a beautiful job and my mustache was glorious.

07/21/2025

Should I buy a Land Rover Defender? My name is Mike Hawkins, I am a retired, disabled veteran and own Interim HealthCare Utah. I was diagnosed with brain cancer at 49 years old and am writing short stories about my experiences through that challenge. I hope you find this beneficial. I have always loved the look of rugged off road vehicles since I was in college. The first one I bought was a 1977 Toyota Landcruiser FJ40 I bought when I was accepted to Pilot Training in the Air Force as a reward to myself. It looked crappy–spray painted Army green, but it had a Corvette engine and driving around Las Vegas with the doors and top off is one of the coolest experiences of my life. My next one was a 1977 Toyota Landcruiser FJ40 that was beautiful orange, lifted with big tires, a Trans Am engine and automatic conversion, got it as a 40th birthday present to myself, a 40 for 40. I sold it before I got sick. Ever since I saw the Land Rover Defender I loved and wanted one. So laying in the hospital bed bored I decided to look one up. That led to a conversation and agreement with Von Dur Land Rovers in the Netherlands to import one from Spain, restore it and ship it to me. Natalie came into the hospital room where I told her I think I just bought a Defender and we had to wire some money. This was right after my first brain surgery. She thought I just got scammed but I was likely to die anyway so better to die happy and hopeful. Musa the owner of Von Dur sent me periodic updates and 2 years later the Defender arrived at my house. I changed the color several times from white to silver to gold/silver to green to blue to red. It’s red with brown leatherette and red stitching interior. It is a beautiful vehicle. When I registered it we told the guy at the DMV the story and he said the Defender was being restored while I was being restored--cool. Only issue is it is a manual transmission so with my right side disability driving it is possible but not as fun as I’d like it to be. I will convert it to automatic so it is easier and more fun to drive—it’s a big job but there is a very comprehensive kit. Our goal is to load the grandkids into the troop carrier like rear jump seats and go get ice cream.

07/20/2025

Cleared!! My name is Mike Hawkins, I am a retired, disabled veteran and own Interim HealthCare Utah. I was diagnosed with brain cancer at 49 years old and am writing short stories about my experiences through that challenge. I hope you find this beneficial. Although I was cancer free, it definitely left it’s mark. Similar to a stroke, the cancer left me disabled. My right arm and leg are uncoordinated and weak, my speech is impaired and my balance is bad. Before cancer I prided myself on my physical ability. Adjusting to being disabled is redefining who I am. While I did not die from cancer, the person I thought I was did die. I started out patient physical therapy at Neuroworx, a great facility that specializes in neurological injuries, mostly spinal cord with a great physical therapist Emma Buckley. It was inspiring seeing the hard work others were doing and I hope my effort and attitude inspired them too. There was a study on stroke victims that elevating the heart rate to 85% of max for 30 minutes improved the brains ability to learn. So that’s what we did 3x per week–intense work on a Versa Climber, rowing machine, treadmill, or in the exercise pool that had jets and a treadmill. Midway through each workout they would ask me to rate the difficulty on a scale of 0-20 (easy to extremely difficult). 14 was the first number labeled hard. Never once did I say I was ever higher than 13. It became the goal of each therapist I worked with to get me to say it was hard, but I would never give them the satisfaction, even if I felt I might die which I did feel like a few times. I was scheduled for follow up MRIs and visits with my oncologist every 3 months.The week before the first one was an anxious time–the worry and fear of cancer returning is real and scary. They say if you have not had a recurrence in 2 years, odds ae in your favor and each year after that gets better. My physical therapy lasted for a year, then I took it upon myself to stay healthy. Going to the gym is hard with my disability so I now have a rowing machine, sauna and electrical stimulating exercise suit called Katalyst I do at home. I stopped taking all medications after about a year–I was on some nasty stuff, steroids, anti psychotic meds, etc. I now take about 17 supplements and exercise 5-6 days per week

07/19/2025

Nachos and Ice Cream. My name is Mike Hawkins, I am a retired, disabled veteran and own Interim HealthCare Utah. I was diagnosed with brain cancer at 49 years old and am writing short stories about my experiences through that challenge. I hope you find this beneficial. My appetite went way down through my 8 rounds of chemo. I craved hot and spicy food, the hotter the better. A local salsa called Dorado and jalapeno chips were my sitting on the couch snack. But what kept me alive was Costa Vida Nachos and Arctic Circle Reese's peanut butter cup shakes. Natalie and I ate both nachos then ice cream every day for probably 3 months. Then my craving turned to cheese pizza–we ate that every day for probably a month. The rest of the time, I was drinking clear boost. 6 months after my bone marrow transplant we were driving past Costa Vida and decided to stop for nachos. The one guy working had unusually high enthusiasm so we called him over while we ate to tell him how Costa Vida kept me alive. Turns out he was a regional manager named Mike Hopkins–I told him I have been called Mike Hopkins hundreds of times, he said he’s been called Mike Hawkins hundreds of times. He did make a good nacho plate.

07/18/2025

McRibs are gross, but funny (unless you are expecting pancakes). My name is Mike Hawkins, I am a retired, disabled veteran and own Interim HealthCare Utah. I was diagnosed with brain cancer at 49 years old and am writing short stories about my experiences through that challenge. I hope you find this beneficial. The hospital food in Huntsman Cancer Institute was good but with a weak appetite and an impulsive/ anxious brain it sometimes did not hit the mark. For some reason I craved spicy food through the treatment and hospital food is a bit bland. So when I would get a craving, we would jump on it quickly. I used Door Dash a lot, sometimes for me and Natalie, sometimes I would order Donuts for the staff. Due to the floor I was on and the pandemic, the delivery drivers had to leave food at the entrance and I would send staff down to get it for me. One day I had a massive craving for McDonalds breakfast so I ordered it and as so excited waiting for it. I see in the app that it has arrived, I send the nurse to get it, she returns with a McDonalds bag filled with 4 McRib sandwiches–I was devastated wondering how they could be this wrong. Unbeknownst to me, my best buddy Mike Bridges who did a Masters Degree study on the McRib, and was obsessed with the business side of the McRib had coincidentally delivered 4 of them at the exact same time I ordered my breakfast as a joke. The McRib and my breakfast bags were both at the entrance and the nurse grabbed the wrong one. When you rarely have an appetite and only want pancakes, a McRib Sandwich might be the grossest thing you could imagine. I eventually got my breakfast and the staff got the McRibs and we all got a good laugh.

07/18/2025

What is your no-show guarantee? We are very proud of our no-show guarantee. If we cannot cover one of our employee no-shows for a shift within 2 hours, we will deliver a check for $250 to the facility. We are very careful about who we hire and the no-show rate is currently 2.7% which is very low for the industry.

07/18/2025

Mr. Jensen, 85, with Parkinson’s, struggled to manage his daily routine. Our caregiver helped with cooking, cleaning, and companionship, allowing him to stay in his beloved home.

07/17/2025

Bone marrow transplant. My name is Mike Hawkins, I am a retired, disabled veteran and own Interim HealthCare Utah. I was diagnosed with brain cancer at 49 years old and am writing short stories about my experiences through that challenge. I hope you find this beneficial. The final phase in my treatment for brain cancer was a bone marrow transplant which meant at least 30 days in a very secure lock down floor in the hospital–no visitors because patients are so vulnerable. The idea is to give a chemo treatment that activated the bone marrow to leach stem cells into the blood stream, then extract millions of them, then give a very ruthless chemo to kill everything in the body including any remnants of cancer, then infuse the stem cells back in so they could rebuild the body. Natalie is protective and persuasive–despite it being a very isolated floor during the early stages of a pandemic, she talked them into letting her stay with me on the condition she could not leave my room–for a month!! She is amazing! The 8 sessions of chemo was a walk in the park compared to this one, it was brutal. My tongue shed the entire surface (super gross!), I was nauseous and incontinent. The incontinence gave me the most anxiety and stress–it was awful. The chemo drug was so terrible, they told Natalie not to touch me. I was sweaty one night so she rubbed my head with her hand and it burned the skin on her hands. That’s the stuff they infused into my body. A definite scorched earth approach. I had an exercise bike in my room, but despite a lifetime of fitness, exercise was not on my agenda. Even walking the hallway was hard. Natalie created daily goals for me which I now appreciate but then hated. I am so glad Natalie committed to being with me–I was deeply motivated to endure because of her. Without her committing so much to me, I very likely would have given up. One day a bunch of staff barged into the room and started wheeling me out. When challenged by Natalie, they said the chemo had swollen my throat and my airway was shrinking, and was now too narrow to intubate me so they were going to give me a tracheotomy. She objected and I could not speak but wrote No Trach on a white board. She said I was breathing and she was watching me so if needed she would get them but for now, no trach. I am so glad to not have that additional complication. Slowly my markers started improving, the stem cells were working and I was getting stronger. I hated being in the hospital and begged every day to be released. The food at the Hunstman Cancer Institute was pretty good but it got old very fast. With a very low appetite I survived on Clear Boost--the chocolate and vanilla boost were too heavy for me, I threw them up 100% of the time. We had to order cases of clear boost online because you couldn't get it locally. One of our daily goals was to drink 6 boosts per day to get the minimum calories--super gross. So whenever a craving hit, we jumped on it and used Door Dash. Because of where we were and Covid, the delivery driver left my food at the entry and I had to send a nurse to get it. Memorable meals were McDonald's breakfast, Chipotle burrito bowls, Taco Time tacos. I eventually started to order food for the floor, donuts mostly. Finally they told me my body hit the right numbers and we could go home. I rang the cancer free bell and hit the road.

07/17/2025

Can you tell me more about your company? Interim HealthCare is the nation's oldest health care franchise and we have been serving Utah for 20 years. We are a nurse owned company with a focus on quality and service. We are very proud of our no no-show guarantee. No-shows are the #1 reason for shifts going unfilled in our industry. When we can’t cover one of our employee no-shows for a shift within 2 hours, we will deliver a check for $250 to the facility. We are very proud of our service and our reputation and we are confident in our ability to deliver on our promises. We are very proud of our no no-show guarantee. No-shows are the #1 reason for shifts going unfilled in our industry. When we can’t cover one of our employee no-shows for a shift within 2 hours, we will deliver a check for $250 to the facility. We are very proud of our service and our reputation and we are confident in our ability to deliver on our promises. We are very proud of our 2 hour guarantee. If a facility requests help and we have not confirmed a completion within 2 hours, we will deliver a check for $250. When we can’t cover one of our employee no-shows for a shift within 2 hours, we will deliver a check for $250 to the facility. We are very proud of our service and our reputation and we are confident in our ability to deliver on our promises.

07/17/2025

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. The best time to start anything was in the past. The second best time is now.

07/16/2025

Anxiety. My name is Mike Hawkins, I am a retired, disabled veteran and own Interim HealthCare Utah. I was diagnosed with brain cancer at 49 years old and am writing short stories about my experiences through that challenge. I hope you find this beneficial. A combination of brain cancer and steroids made me crazy. I had a weird anxious feeling all of the time. It felt like I was crawling out of my skin–I could not sit still for more than a minute and had to get up and move, which was super hard at the time. I would do laps around our apartment. The only thing that helped me was back tickles and car rides, Natalie and I drove on probably every road in Salt Lake City, we drove for hours and hours, stopping briefly to watch the sun set from the Old Mill Golf Course parking lot. Mid way through treatment they ordered a progress check MRI. I am not claustrophobic and MRIs don’t bother me, I usually just fall asleep, but this one I could not lay still–I was literally freaking out. Natalie was in the waiting room, the MRI team came running in and grabbed her saying she had to come right now! They brought Natalie in and she held my hand and practically climbed in the machine with me, holding my hand which calmed me down enough to finish. Anxiety like this is a terrible feeling! For head MRIs you lay on what is like the back of a helmet, then they add the front part so your head is locked in. If you're lucky your 'helmet' has a mirror so you can see your toes, that helps. I learned to control my anxiety by pretending to be an astronaut all alone in Space. Alan Shephard would not freak out by laying on a bed with a warm blanket inside of a tube. And if he wouldn't, then neither would I. I get MRIs every 3 months now. I am back to normal able to sleep in the tube.

Interim HealthCare joins local Walks to End Alzheimer’s all around the country. Together, we can make a significant cont...
07/07/2025

Interim HealthCare joins local Walks to End Alzheimer’s all around the country. Together, we can make a significant contribution to making a difference and moving closer to a world without Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

Join a team today: alz.org/interimhealthcarewalk

Thank you to the families and care teams who bring heart to every home. Happy Independence Day.❤️🤍💙
07/04/2025

Thank you to the families and care teams who bring heart to every home. Happy Independence Day.
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From heart health to mental health, caring for men means encouraging conversations and regular checkups.
06/27/2025

From heart health to mental health, caring for men means encouraging conversations and regular checkups.

Behind every survivor is a story of strength, struggle, and hope. We celebrate you this .
06/23/2025

Behind every survivor is a story of strength, struggle, and hope. We celebrate you this .

Some wounds are invisible. This PTSD Awareness Day, we stand with those still healing. You are not alone. ❤️
06/19/2025

Some wounds are invisible. This PTSD Awareness Day, we stand with those still healing. You are not alone. ❤️

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