Our Team
A native Oregonian, Dr. Neal grew up on a small farm in rural Boring, Oregon. His passion for medicine began in High School while serving on several medical mission trips to Africa with his father, Dr. Bruce Douglas. After completing his studies at Oregon State, he attended Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) and completed his residency at Providence Oregon Family Medicine.
In 2014, Dr. Neal and his family moved to the beautiful Hood River Valley and quickly fell in love with the close knit community, independent businesses, and small town charm that reminded him of his own home town. Recognizing the medical care crisis of ever rising insurance prices, rushed medical visits, and overall rocketing healthcare prices, Dr. Neal established Heritage Family Medicine as the first Direct Primary Care clinic in the Gorge with a focus on affordable yet quality medical care.
Enter Heritage Family Medicine. With his full spectrum Family Medical skills and passion for independent business, in 2017 Dr. Neal set out to bring health care to Hood River as never seen before. Providing specialized, convenient, and compassionate care to his growing base of members is his passion. Adopting a Direct Primary Care model has made it all possible.
In between providing this innovative care, Dr. Neal can be found enjoying time with his beautiful wife (Kristi) and five children (Hudson, Gretchen, Adeline, Leroy, and Willa Mae). They are an active family who enjoy skiing, mountain biking, hiking and all the activities of the Gorge. They are also actively involved members of their church with Dr. Neal serving as a High School Youth volunteer and on the worship team. A true renaissance man, Dr. Neal is an accomplished pianist and vocalist, an Eagle Scout, an avid gardener and aquarist, has scaled mountains, served in missions in Africa, an avid connoisseur of American History, acts as family chef, and maintains his great grandfather’s 1965 Ford pickup.
With an extensive background in cardiac nursing, post-operative management, and intensive care, Sarah provides an amazing skillset to the Heritage team. With a passion for serving others and a profound and contagious joy, she ensures that each and every person is heard and cared for to the highest of standards.
Sarah specializes in ensuring that every detail of your care plan is attended to with the utmost compassion and care all while providing phlebotomy, IV services, and other minor procedures with incredible precision. Her desire to learn and ability to attend to the smallest of details has made her the perfect compliment to Dr. Neal’s comprehensive style of care.
Although she would never admit it, Sarah spends much of her vacation time volunteering for the underserved in remote areas of Thailand. Her compassion, joy, and smile truly shine through.
When not serving her patients, Sarah enjoys mountain biking, snowboarding, gardening, traveling, dancing to live music, chasing her crazy cats, and exploring the vast wilderness of the Pacific Northwest and Hyrule.