Patient Advocate: Your Daughter's In Town
AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE PLANNING AND PROBLEM SOLVING FOR PATIENTS AND FAMILIES. Frustrated and frightened because your concerns and questions aren't being taken seriously? Do you know something's wrong but don't know what to do about it? Want to plan a less stressful, more productive hospitalization and recovery? Your Daughter's In Town: Health Advocacy for Elders.
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Helping To Ensure Optimal Medical Care For Seniors and Patients of All Ages. Medical consultation is provided by registered nurse Sandra Malphurs, RN, BSN. Effective and affordable phone and on-line assistance to patients and their families anywhere in the U.S. Hands-on advocacy in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County and Southwestern PA.
Call Suzanne at 412.478.2762 or click here to send an e-mail.
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The surgeon is impatient with questions about the procedure and follow-up and
leaves you and your family in the dark about the need and recovery. Mom and Dad
don't feel comfortable asking too many questions. How do you get answers?
Do you know how to get medical staff to take you and your concerns seriously?
There are steps you can take to avoid a hospital-acquired infection. Do you know
what these precautions are?
Not all rehabilitation facilities are equal. How do you choose a facility that will offer
appropriate care for your or your husband's needs? What questions do you ask
when you’re making a choice?
Why Every Patient Needs an Advocate
Hospitalizations are difficult under the best of circumstances and too much can and
does go wrong.
Are you or someone you love truly prepared to be hospitalized? Do you have all the
information you need to make good decisions and take appropriate precautions?
And will you know what to do if something goes wrong?
The Patient Advocates
I am an organizer and a health advocate with a lot of experience getting answers
and results in a hospital setting and Sandra has extensive medical/surgical
experience and we may be exactly what you need right now. Information is available
but sometimes not easily available; you need to know how to get it. Cooperation is
achievable but you need to know how to get that, too. And organization is essential
to successful, less stressful oversight.
If work, distance or family obligations make it hard for you to tend to a loved one’s
well-being or if you need help preparing yourself or anyone for a hospital stay or if
the worst has happened and you aren't getting the answers or cooperation you
need, let's talk about how we can help.
For more information about clients I've assisted and how I may be of service to you
and your family, please click on the FAQ link below.
Suzanne Steidl Founder/Patient Advocate Your Daughter's In Town
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Suzanne Steidl knows that you can't
depend on doctors, nurses and social
workers to have the time to explain or
even know all the details involved in
achieving error-free hospitalizations
and rehabilitation. Excellent patient
care doesn't just happen.
Patients and their families need
organized, trustworthy information to
make good decisions and the safe-
guards in place to avoid errors and
complications. And they need to know
what to do when problems arise.
Suzanne knows essential questions to
ask that no one will think to volunteer
the answers to. She knows steps you
can take to avoid errors and she knows
how to get answers and quick cooper-
ation when you suspect something's
wrong. She will facilitate as much
communication and planning as you
feel you need to help ensure appro-
priate care and successful outcomes.
Her specialized and unique knowledge
comes from caring for her own friends
and family and, for more than five years,
through working with her clients.
Suzanne has been an effective
advocate for more than thirty years.
She has worked on behalf of a variety of
people including those with disabilities
and abused and neglected youth. She
has represented consumers before
regulatory agencies and elected
officials.
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To discuss your specific health
advocacy needs and fees for
service tailored to your needs,
call 412.478.2762 or
click here to send an e-mail.
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