We help you navigate the healthcare system.
We are specialists in supporting patients and families as they journey through
injury, serious and complex illness, and end-of-life.
We believe in helping people transform medical
crisis and chaos through communication,
empowerment, knowledge, and education.
Latest Blog Postings
- Effective Healthcare Communication 101: The power of staying logical in doctor’s appointments
- Re-admissions to hospital from the perspective of pre-hospital specialists – Paramedics
- Patients and family members have a role in preventing hospital readmission
- Who is an Empowered Patient?
- Why we need to be Empowered Patients and Caregivers
- Discharge Planning from Acute Care to Home or Residential Care
- Dementia caregivers suffering in silence, feeling isolated: study
- Green Burial 101
- Death Doulas – what is all the talk about?
- Are you an Empowered Patient?
- How to Make a Complaint about
Hospital Care in British Columbia
Our Twitter
2 months ago
Go hear Connie, Joti or Kerry on Advance Care Planning. These women are expert, interesting and passionate. Everyone in your life will be affected by planning you do now. Truth.
In Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Pt Coquitlam.
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Go hear Connie, Joti or Kerry on Advance Care Planning. These women are expert, interesting and passionate. Everyone in your life will be affected by planning you do now. Truth.
In Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Pt Coquitlam.
https://t.co/z2g8HlhiFa
#acp #advancecareplanning
4 months ago
A global investigation found flaws in the way medical devices are approved and monitored.
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A global investigation found flaws in the way medical devices are approved and monitored.
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7 months ago
A great column by the incomparable #JessicaZitter. Words are important.
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A great column by the incomparable #JessicaZitter. Words are important.
https://t.co/VpZD5kTyIY
8 months ago
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They are ready. Are you? Create an ICE form.
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#ICE #empoweredpatient #preparedpatient https://t.co/A9Y0acKORF