Navigating a confusing health care system.

The Importance of Health Care Advocacy

A mentor for groups and individuals, making a difference in how consumers effectively navigate the complex health care system. Advocacy is essential to high-quality medical services that you can value and appreciate. Our goal is to change the way care is accessed by teaching individuals how to understand their health plans and partner with their providers while reducing dissatisfaction and grievances within the health plan, thus fostering a mutually beneficial environment between health plans and health care consumers.

In today's environment it is vital to partner with your provider to understand your health status, treatment options, and next steps. Learning to understand your offerings and responsibilities and to advocate for yourself or your family enables you to be more assertive and speak up for yourself without discrediting the provider that you respect.

You can learn about resources that promote superior health care delivery without feeling like you are at the mercy of your health care system. You will learn how to select a provider that listens to understand you and not to respond with care plans based on algorithms. You will hear case studies of people that paid attention to a nagging feeling in their gut, which intuitively led to saving their lives.

With increasing numbers of chronic disease and a later aging population, you can learn to become a health agent for your loved ones before not after they need you the most.