Patient Advocacy: An Emerging Practice for Healthcare Professionals

Patient Advocacy is an emerging practice for healthcare professionals who want to get back to basics. The Healthcare system is challenging regardless of where you work. Patient Advocacy is an emerging practice that allows healthcare professionals to work directly with the patient/family to coordinate care and assist with finding providers and other resources to meet their needs.

Patient Advocates empower patients to understand how the healthcare system works and address challenging issues in an organized manner. Anne Llewellyn, a Board Certified Patient Advocate will share insights into this emerging area for those who want to move into independent practice.

• Define patient advocacy.
• Discuss the various areas of patient advocacy.
• Explain how healthcare professionals can break into these new areas of practice.

• History of Patient Advocacy
• Qualification for patient advocates
• Areas of practice within patient advocacy
• Starting Your Own Business
• Showing your value to your clients

With people having to pay more and more for their health and health care they are realizing they need help to navigate the system for care, insurance challenges, and finding resources to meet their needs.

To meet this need, a new practice is emerging where independent patient/health advocates are helping consumers have a voice in their care, find resources to meet their needs, and address challenges they face in a fragmented and costly system that is foreign to most people.

Healthcare professionals should attend to learn about an emerging practice they can move into and use the skills they have to help people (consumers/caregivers) have a voice in their care and assistance navigating the complex healthcare system.

Seasoned Healthcare Professionals who are ready for a change and to get back to the reason they got into healthcare in the first place.