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Navigating Your Healthcare Journey: Lessons Learned to Get the Care you Need and Deserve
By Charlene Rothkopf, MA and Z. Colette Edwards, MD, MBA
Navigating the healthcare system can be one of the most difficult and complicated journeys you can take. If you are facing an acute illness or living with a chronic condition and finding it difficult to make your way through the healthcare system—not sure of the right type of doctor you need, or the right place to go for help, or perhaps you are uncertain about how your health insurance works—this book can help you, the patient or caregiver, gain the knowledge and confidence to advocate for yourself (and your loved ones) and obtain the care you deserve throughout your unique healthcare journey. We offer no medical advice, nor do we promote one type of treatment, clinician, or institution over another; we provide you with information and further resources to guide you through the process.
Book Details
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Patient empowerment
Navigating healthcare systems
Advocacy and informed decision-making
Caregiver support
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"The personal stories and lessons learned in Navigating Your Healthcare Journey highlight the importance of taking ownership of your health and of being your own advocate. It shares personal experiences of what can go wrong in this complicated, fragmented health care ecosystem when information isn't readily available to get the right care at the right time in the right place. Navigating Your Healthcare Journey is a wake-up call for patients and caregivers to proactively seek out resources to help understand treatment options and where to go for care." -Brian Marcotte past CEO and president, Business Group on Health; former Honeywell executive
"Everyone needs a navigator for our $4 trillion, impossibly com- plicated healthcare system. Sadly, most patients never get the personal attention they so deserve. Enter Edwards and Rothkopf with the best navigation system I have ever seen. Everyone will be a patient, and everyone needs to read this book." -David Nash, MD, MBA founding dean emeritus, Jefferson University College of Population Health; Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N Grandon Professor; editor-in-chief, American Journal of Medical Quality and Population Health
"The book is excellent, and I say that with the highest praise. It is easy to read, clear, and understandable. I liked the format- filled with enough information and great stories which are engaging and thought-provoking. I can't tell you which chapter I liked the best because they are all great." -Carol Oravec, RN
"Navigating Your Healthcare Journey is the go-to practical guide for patients and their families traversing the often tortuous terrain known as the U.S. healthcare experience." -Saria (Carter) Saccocio, MD, MHA, FAAFP chief medical officer, CareMore Health, East Region
"Navigating Your Healthcare Journey is filled with useful and understandable information about how our healthcare system works. This practical guide should be required reading for healthcare management students and medical, nursing, and other health professional students. It is refreshing to see things from the view of the patient and understand in human terms the challenges they face with our healthcare system each and every day!" -Amanda Hopkins Tirrell, MBA, FACHE president and founder, Hopkins Tirrell & Associates, LLC
"Navigating Your Healthcare Journey is a compilation of the expertise, compassion, care, and the lived experience of these passionate authors. Their years in the service of others at all levels of our healthcare system delivers a skillful meshing of science, storytelling, education and empowerment.
Both comprehensive and concise, this well researched guide is the ideal companion as one journeys, as patient and advocate, through the morass that is healthcare in this country today. It provides the tools to be in action in addressing healthcare decisions with awareness, focus and confidence. You will refer to this guide often as a trusted resource-its format is readable, informative and actionable." -Magda Barini-Garcia, MD, MPH health policy physician; former senior medical advisor on minority health and health disparities and quality, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Center for Quality; captain, United States Public Health Service (Retired)