We offer patient advocacy and end-of-life services to all! Please read below for details & let us know how we can help.
Patient Advocacy
We’re in your corner while you navigate the healthcare industry.
Being a patient in the healthcare system can be absolutely overwhelming. Suddenly you are being flooded with paperwork, jargon, lingo, a list of acronyms, and a swarm of new people. You are dealing with family, doctors, insurance companies, specialists, and more. With all of this, it may be scary to ask questions. It can be very confusing and lonely without someone to walk through the process at your side.
It helps to have an advocate to walk you through your journey. A Patient Advocate is a supporter, facilitator, backer, and translator for yourself and/or your family. We want you to feel as confident as you can be during this uneasy time.
What we do:
LA Patient Advocates offers concierge advocacy service.
As your advocates, we will:
Come with you to doctor's offices.
Help decipher medical lingo & assist with asking the right questions.
Help you understand and make your own difficult medical decisions & support your choices.
Help the patient understand the processes and options for care within the facility they are considering.
Make sure your choices are carried out.
Obtain medical records, ask targeted questions, keep notes.
Be at the bedside for hospitalized patients and ensure all correct treatments and testing are done.
Unravel the tangle of medical records or insurance company issues.
Review and negotiate medical bills.
Pricing is highly individualized. Please contact us for a complimentary 20-minute phone consultation where we can discuss your needs. Then we can give you a quote based on your specific circumstances.
End-of-Life
We are here to help you reach the end on your terms.
In plain language:
Either you or a loved one has been diagnosed with a terminal illness or you have suffered a chronic illness and are now having questions about end-of-life options & quality of life. It’s not easy. Everyone is giving you attention but you may still feel a little lost, alone, unheard, and invisible. We’ve often found that the patient wants to discuss these issues but the doctor and even their family dismiss these topics. This is NOT an easy experience. It’s emotional. It’s scary, frustrating, confusing, and a lot to handle.
Furthermore: Do you really know if you’ve heard all your options from all these professionals? And you may not fully understand your options. How do you keep up and still enjoy the remaining life and health you do have during all this chaos? Should you choose palliative care or hospice ? Which one? Or perhaps you’re in hospice and your needs aren’t being met?
It’s exhausting and daunting for someone to handle when they were recently diagnosed with a terminal illness or they’re facing the end of their life.
This is where L.A. Patient Advocates step in.
We’re in your corner. We will bridge the gap.
The Details.
Our team provides advocacy and support for clients whose wishes are not being met or who are not getting adequate pain or symptom management.
We meet with families to help facilitate discussions about the patient’s end-of-life wishes.
We provide support and reassurance to the client as they navigate their way through the process of accessing medical aid in dying.
End-of-life advocacy when necessary: we’ll help the client find physicians willing to prescribe & we’ll facilitate a conversation with a physician or hospice to help clients get needed services, including (but not limited to) adequate pain control.
Other things we can help you with:
Weigh the benefits of palliative and hospice care.
Evaluate hospices.
Complete advanced directives.
Teach friends and family members how they can advocate for their loved ones.
Ensure patients are receiving effective pain control and symptom management.
Be present to provide support for patient or family at Medical Aid in Dying for terminally ill, mentally capable adults.
Discuss other methods for attaining a peaceful death, such as:
voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED)
refusing unwanted medical treatment or discontinuing life-sustaining treatment
Compassionate, patient-centered end-of-life care.
Accompany a dying person, their family, and their friends through the spiritually transformative experience of dying.
Educate the dying and their family about what to expect throughout the process.
Death and dying can be difficult subjects. We are comfortable having these conversations. We are free from judgment, honoring all individuals regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, culture, ethnicity, or any other factor. We offer language interpreter services. . We are not a religious organization, nor do we promote any one ethical perspective or belief system. And we offer pointers on opening the dialogue between family-and-patient and patient-and-physician so that you can be sure that your voice and wishes will be honored and your death will be on your terms.
We’re steadfast & reliable. Your rock in unsteady times.
You are not alone.
My consultants provide information on all of the options available today in California for end-of-life care, facing terminal illness, and navigating medical environments.
L.A. Patient Advocates does not endorse or encourage any one particular end-of-life plan or option. Our goal is to educate people on all of the choices available, including how to access and understand each plan. It is each individual’s choice to either implement a long term plan concerning their wishes, or make an end-of-life decision.
We aim to help facilitate choices that reflect the wishes and values of the patient living with the disease. We provide information, advocacy, and support regarding all end-of-life choices and options.
We believe that if individuals do not have complete information about the pros and cons of various options, they will not be able to make an informed decision about death and dying.
We can help with effective ways to communicate with health care providers, as well as family members who may have difficulty accepting the patient’s end-of-life choices.
