What Does a Patient Advocate / Nurse Navigator Do?
Our Patient Advocate intercedes on behalf of the patient, working as a liaison with the family, physicians, physical therapy, and many other health care agencies and insurance companies, improving communication, accessing information, addressing concerns and assisting in resolving difficulties. Our Patient Advocate works directly for you so we have your best interest at heart providing support, encouragement and assistance. Our Patient Advocate can help coordinate the patient’s health care team for the optimal benefit of the patient. Our Patient Advocate can help create a patient care plan, so that all care givers are working together with the same information towards the same goal. Our Patient Advocate can help empower the patient with organized medical records. Our Patient Advocate may accompany a patient to appointments, and may monitor the patient at the bedside in a hospital Do you feel you have way too much on your plate related to your medical issues, or dealing with elderly par
