Rachael Bickels, RN, MSN

Casper, WY- Rachael Bickels, M.S.N., R.N., is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Lifetime Achiever as in the field of Healthcare as an Entrepreneur, Founder, CEO, and Chief Nursing Officer of Intermountain Home Companions, Inc.            

Intermountain Home Companions is a home-health agency serving patients in numerous Wyoming counties. Serving adults 18 years or older, Intermountain Home Companions specializes in the care of people afflicted with dementia, with a particular focus on patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Through skilled nursing, care giving, companionship, meal preparation, housecleaning, hobbies and activities, transportation, and general care practices, Intermountain Home Companions provides patients elite expertise and quality care, which results in an overall improvement of life. Bickels’ mission and vision is to bring medicine back to the bedside, providing all medical, non-medical, and hospice services. Ms. Bickels’ agency strives to keep patients in their home settings, even through the end of their lives. Ms. Bickels and her staff are sometimes the last hands that a hospice patient holds. Ms. Bickels refuses to let patients age by themselves and will never let a patient pass away alone. This requires Bickels and her staff to be vigilant and available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week.
 
Ms. Bickels brings over twenty-five years of experience in the home healthcare field. She has unwavering dedication to the people who she serves. She has extensive experience in geriatrics, offering services related to home health care, mental health, nursing, geriatrics, and nursing management. Passionate about treating each patient holistically, she provides services aimed to promote physical and mental health.  She also teaches medical professionals and the public about chronic disease management and dementia. She offers dementia support groups for her patients and families. She states, “As a nursing leader, we must teach and improve the health of our patients, families, and communities”.

Beginning her education as a student at the University of Northern Colorado, Ms. Bickels focused on a psychology degree in 1992. She moved to Wyoming where she then went on to attend Casper College for an Associate of Science in Registered Nursing. Furthering her education, she earned a Master of Science in Nursing, with a Minor in Nursing Leadership and Management in 2016 at Walden University.
In acknowledgment of her contributions to the field, Ms. Bickels has been recognized as a member of the National Association of Leadership and Success, National Association of Professional Women, and Sigma Theta Tau International for Excellence in Nursing.

Ms. Bickels honors her late father Bernard Bickels, a Marine and entrepreneur, by caring for military veterans and all patient care. She owes her entrepreneur spirit to her father. His tragic death in 2015 taught her to reach for her dreams and act on them, as we never know when our time is up on this earth.

 In her free time, Ms. Bickels enjoys baking and spending time with family and friends.

For more information, please visit www.intermountainhome.com.