Meet the Lookout Coalition Providers
Methow At Home’s Lookout Coalition program serves the community through house calls, providing clinical and social support to those who are facing difficult health challenges, connecting community members with the resources they need.
Our professional volunteers have diverse clinical expertise, including end of life support, and all live in the Methow community.
All services are free of charge. Anyone in the Methow Valley can receive support from the Lookout Coalition.
Call us to get started: (509) 996-5844
Betsy Weiss, MD
Betsy Weiss is a retired internist who began her professional career in the Indian Health Service in Bethel Alaska. After 4 years she and her husband and two children then moved to far northern Maine with their sled dog team.
In addition to internal medicine practice, Betsy volunteered as medical director for 2 rural hospices and as the medical director of a women’s health center. During a sabbatical year, Betsy served in a clinic in South Sudan and in a teaching hospital in Moshi Tanzania.
She and her husband moved to Winthrop full time in 2012. She was fortunate to find the Lookout Coalition shortly after she arrived.
An adjacent interest in senior living options, led her to be part of the founding leadership for Methow At Home.
Raleigh Bowden, MD
Raleigh Bowden is a physician with specialty training in Pediatrics, Oncology, Infectious Disease and Palliative care/end of life. She is a graduate of the University of Washington (UW) Medical School with specialty training at the University of Colorado. She was on faculty at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the UW for 16 years.
In 2023-2029 Raleigh founded and led a non-profit focusing on End of Life access and education in the Seattle African American community. In 2010, she helped fund The Lookout Coalition in the Methow Valley. In 2019-2023, she received several HRSA grants and a Robert Woods Johnson Clinical Scholar award to start a Palliative care program across Okanogan County. In 2021, she helped secure a HRSA grant to start the Eldercare Network in the Methow Valley.
Raleigh has been on the WA State Hospice and Palliative Care Board, and the WA Department of Health Palliative Care Initiative and has in depth training in end of life communication, hospice support, and engaging in difficult conversations.
Polly Fabian, MD
Polly Fabian is a retired family medicine physician who is a half time resident of the Methow Valley. She spent over 30 years working and teaching in Community Health Centers in Seattle, and two years in a travel medicine clinic in Kathmandu, Nepal. She and her husband live in a yurt outside Winthrop. They have two grown children and enjoy hiking, biking and skiing around the valley.
Laura Yon, M.A., Chaplain
Laura Yon holds a Master's Degree from San Diego State University and graduated as a Chaplain from the Upaya Zen Center’s Chaplaincy Training.
Laura worked with oncology and organ transplant patients at the University of Washington Medical Center for 15 years, teaching them breathing and mindfulness techniques to help them find ease while moving through their experience of illness.
Currently, Laura works with those who are in hospice, palliative care or are grieving a loss, as part of the spiritual care team for Methow At Home’s Lookout Coalition program in Winthrop, WA, as well as Swedish-Edmonds Medical Center and Bailey-Boushay House, in Seattle.
Leslie Tregillus, MD
Leslie Tregillus is a family physician who has worked with the Lookout coalition for 6 years. She practiced medicine in Seattle for 32 years before moving full time to the Methow Valley in 2019 with her husband. She was a provider with Okanogan Palliative Care from 2022 until 2025 and appreciated to opportunity to continue to provide supportive care to Valley residents.
Patty Spencer, RN
Sheila Brandenburg, RN
Sheila Brandenburg brings 39 years of experience as a Registered Nurse, with her expertise deeply rooted in specialized areas such as long-term care, the intricate management of adult family homes, the compassionate delivery of Hospice services, and the vital field of Palliative Care. Sheila provides ongoing educational programs specifically tailored for community members who are navigating the challenges of living with and managing Dementia
Sheila was involved a collaborative effort with a local non-profit organization to establish two independent Greenhouse Adult Family Homes and has been actively engaged in supporting the growth and expansion of this impactful community service.
Jerome Mueller, MD
The Methow Valley Elder Care Coordination Network (the Network) is a coalition of social and medical service providers and volunteers working to better serve our age 65+ community members. The Network’s mission is to develop and sustain rurally relevant practices, programs, facilities, and the workforce needed to implement a community-based model of long-term care coordination for elders in the Methow Valley. Some Methow At Home events are funded in part by a network development grant awarded by the Health Resource & Service Administration (HRSA) as part of an award totaling $300,000 with 0% financed with non-governmental funds. To learn more about HRSA funding, go to HRSA.gov.
“The Guardian Angel program has been a lifeline between myself and the community. The fact that someone comes to my home every week has kept me from feeling isolated. It means a lot to know that someone cares about me.”
— Gerry E. Methow At Home Member