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
3 months ago
A great column by the incomparable #JessicaZitter. Words are important.
https://t.co/VpZD5kTyIY
A great column by the incomparable #JessicaZitter. Words are important.
https://t.co/VpZD5kTyIY
4 months ago
They are ready. Are you? Create an ICE form.
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They are ready. Are you? Create an ICE form.
https://t.co/NIcX2QKlNj
#ICE #empoweredpatient #preparedpatient https://t.co/A9Y0acKORF
4 months ago
Ready for a medical emergency? Create an ICE medical form.
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#empoweredpatient #advancecareplanning #empoweredcaregiver #preparedpatient https://t.co/ZU2c5kLfOm
Ready for a medical emergency? Create an ICE medical form.
https://t.co/NIcX2QKlNj
#empoweredpatient #advancecareplanning #empoweredcaregiver #preparedpatient https://t.co/ZU2c5kLfOm
4 months ago
Lawyer living with cystic fibrosis files lawsuit on behalf of thousands of patients over lack of public funding for new $250,000 drug: https://t.co/qDLOQ70XE6 https://t.co/1uugdCeYWO
Lawyer living with cystic fibrosis files lawsuit on behalf of thousands of patients over lack of public funding for new $250,000 drug: https://t.co/qDLOQ70XE6 https://t.co/1uugdCeYWO
4 months ago
Our government's strategy for Canadian patients - unless they invoke the former BC NDP Ministry of Health COO, Thea Vakil's approach (on Canadians going to the US for MRI's) - "If I could stop them at the border, I would"! https://t.co/Ka3XOXabxm
Our government's strategy for Canadian patients - unless they invoke the former BC NDP Ministry of Health COO, Thea Vakil's approach (on Canadians going to the US for MRI's) - "If I could stop them at the border, I would"! https://t.co/Ka3XOXabxm