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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.

Helping To Ensure Optimal Medical Care For Seniors and
Patients of All Ages.

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. Free initial consultation.
Call Suzanne at 412.478.2762 or click here to send an e-mail.

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seriously?

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Do you know what these precautions are?

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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 my associate, Nurse Sandra Malphurs, 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

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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