Why go it alone if you don't have to?
When you are faced with life-changing and life-saving decisions, please contact me to see if I can help. My services include:
- Adult & Elder Care Advocacy Services
- Assistance Managing Your Personalized Care with a Cancer Diagnosis
- Chronic Conditions
- Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
As your Health Advocate I can...
- Accompany you
or an elderly parent to physician appointments, formulate questions and help follow-up on health recommendations.
- Help review medical bills, appeal unpaid claims, obtain pre-authorization for treatments.
- Coordinate health care procedures, treatments and plans.
- Guide your decision making
when faced with a serious or complex diagnosis.
- Make home or hospital visits
to ill or elderly loved ones.
- Advocate on your behalf
with physicians and hospital staff.
- Assist with obtaining second opinions.
- Review medical records
and explore health treatment options.
- Assist with discharge planning and assessment of needs.
- Help transition a family member from the hospital to a rehabilitation facility.
Linda Winkler Garvin, MSN
Patient Advocate
Linda Winkler Garvin is Founder and President of Patient Advocate Bay Area, Inc., a national healthcare navigation and patient advocacy service that helps you navigate the logistics of the medical maze and guides you to make informed choices about your health care.
Listen To a Podcast with former Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner:
- How to Navigate The Logistics of the Medical Bureaucracy
- How a Health Advocate expert will guide you to make informed choices about your Health Care.
The benefits of working with Linda Winkler Garvin:
- Explore which health care options are right for you.
- Save you valuable work time by coordinating & facilitating your family members health needs
- Help you prevent health crises and unnecessary hospitalizations.
- Research your potential treatment options and help you determine the pros and cons so you can chose the best health option for yourself.
- Proactive education to prevent and protect you from medical mistakes,including hospital acquired infections.
- Communicate your health care needs to medical team and exchange information with family members.
- Allegiance is with you “the client”.
Services include:
Adult & Elder Care
Advocacy Services
- Provide recommendations for long term care planning
- Help you in transitioning your parent from home to the hospital, hospital to rehab, or rehab to home-based services.
- Perform home and hospital visits
Chronic Conditions
- Help you manage your care, especially for clients diagnosed with Autoimmune Disorders, Cancer, Neurodegenerative Conditions, Dementia and Cardiovascular Diseases
- Assistance and Preparation for upcoming surgery, chemotherapy or medical procedures
- Support and Guidance if your loved one is facing End of Life Care
Health Promotion &
Disease Prevention
- Provide Proactive Strategies for your specific health concerns
- Help you Develop a Plan of Action to Prevent Type Two Diabetes, High Cholesterol and Heart Disease
- Anticipate your specific health needs to help you chart a path toward Wellness.
