National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants – Present at the Creation
The National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants sets professional goals and provides a clear voice and reasoned opinions on health care policy matters.
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Radio Show -What Does A Navigator Do?
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“Advocates Help Patients Navigate Health Care Maze”
On June 22, NPR reporter Richard Knox aired this story during the “Morning Edition” broadcast. It was an excellent piece profiling efforts by an individual and a volunteer organization to help patients and families get the care they need to navigate our health care and elder care systems. Each time the media does a piece on…
Patient Navigators Guide Us Through the Medical Maze
The March 29, 2009 edition of Parade magazine featured an article about the new specialty of patient navigation. The article highlights some of what navigators can do. For now, the National Cancer Institute has undertaken several pilot projects to train and deploy navigators in medically underserved areas. But as the article also correctly points out, patient navigators…
How Can a Patient Navigator Help You?
If you had your own patient advocate to guide you through illness and aging, what would you want to ask them?