Patient Navigation
If you, or someone you love, is diagnosed with a serious condition or experiencing a chronic condition, you may feel lost and overwhelmed navigating the options for care.
A navigator works with patients and families to guide them through the healthcare maze by assisting with research, referrals, advocacy, problem solving, and integrative care solutions. Together we create a map and the unique route to your healthiest self. Navigators help patients put together a map of the big picture, assisting them in clarifying their needs and priorities, identifying existing support, and helping direct them to other resources to fill in the gaps. The Navigator makes things cohesive; the various clinicians and practitioners work with patients on the details, whether in medicine, physical therapy, psychotherapy or accupuncture. She designed the program to be, non-agenda based, respecting and focusing on the patient's agenda.  |
How Can Navigation Help? Advocate Educate Integrate 1. Connect: call or email for a free consultation 2. Gather Ideas: assessment 3. Make a Plan: Resources & Referrals 4. Take Action: care solutions & 5. Let Go: trust your new direction **Referrals to local (Ithaca, NY) practitioners for integrative services such as 8-week Mindfulness Classes, acupuncture, Tai Chi, Qigong, cranial sacral therapy, massage and/or yoga classes. (please see 'referral page' for ongoing updates) Useful link: www.wellnessproposals.com(Wellness Programs for the World's leading Wellness Companies). This site offers a free wellness library ( the largest in the world) containing more than 15,000 free health and wellness related handouts, posters, presentations, newsletters and more.  |