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What is Patient Advocacy? 

Peakview Patient Advocacy offers supportive and interpretive services for patients experiencing interaction with healthcare provider systems.  Whether attending a routine MD appointment or experiencing hospitalization with a complex condition, Peakview Patient Advocacy (PPA) will be by your side.  Mary applies 35 years of intensive care nursing experience,  as well as education and quality improvement skills, ensuring your medical care aligns with best published evidence as well as your personal ethical platform.

Peakview Patient Advocacy will help…

  • Ensure you receive the best quality health care.
  • You avoid being the victim of medical error by applying knowledge of the gaps in modern healthcare and working to mitigate caregiver error.
  • You choose the best doctor and treatment options for your condition.
  • You and your family understand your medical condition.
  • Navigate your realtime patient care experience, applying knowledge of direct care experiences, noticing things others may miss with her trained eye.
  • Navigate the bureaucracy of healthcare systems and escalate up the chain of command for solutions when things are not progressing.
  • Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers and home healthcare givers to keep you at the center of the provision of superior care.
  • Work with insurance companies to ensure you receive the maximum benefits to which you are entitled.
  • Apply finely tuned assessment skills to navigate ER or hospitalization experiences.
  • Evaluate the safety of your home and enlist supportive services to help protect you from harm.
  • Assure proper medication management both within and outside the hospital system.

Nurses are natural advocates with a learned, practiced and perfected skill as a career.

Nurses are the most trustworthy profession for over 30 years.

Nurses are passionate about providing the very best for their patients, and

Peakview Patient Advocacy will do all of these things…..

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