Description
Champion patients’ rights and preferences, helping them navigate care, understand policies and costs, resolve concerns, and make informed healthcare decisions.
- • Explain patients’ rights, policies, procedures, and available services in clear, accessible terms.
- • Coordinate communication among patients, families, clinicians, administrators, payers, and regulators.
- • Receive, investigate, and escalate patient concerns or grievances and track them to resolution.
- • Interview patients and caregivers to identify barriers, unmet needs, or issues in care.
- • Connect patients with appropriate clinical services, social supports, and community resources.
- • Help patients understand costs, coverage, prior authorizations, denials, and financial assistance options.
- • Track and report advocacy themes and systemic issues; recommend process improvements.
- • Create and distribute patient education materials on rights, navigation, and available resources.
- • Provide basic education on care plans and safe use of prescribed home equipment, coordinating clinical training as needed.
- • Share guidance on informed consent, privacy, risk, and quality-of-care standards.
- • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of advocacy best practices, regulations, and patient experience trends.
- • Maintain a current directory of community services, benefits, and support programs.
- • Train staff and volunteers on patient-centered communication, cultural humility, and patients’ rights.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
