We are very conscious about COVID in my household. We have a ‘COVID Protection Policy’ on my husband’s website to let clients know the protections he’s taking and why (TonyDuke.ca/covid-protection-policy). I’ve adapted our procedures for more general use and geared them for healthcare settings. Of course they apply for any indoor setting such as schools…
What do you want to know about navigating healthcare? There’s certainly a massive learning curve when you are trying to navigate a health issue. Patients and care partners have an increasing amount of ‘New Work‘ that we are responsible for. The difficult truth is that sometimes you just can’t easily access the care you need…
What is a Patient Navigator? The Patient Navigator helps patients and care partners better understand and navigate our own healthcare situation, to improve our health ‘outcome’. This includes understanding your health issue, and how the system functions so you can more smoothly navigate our healthcare systems. Important note: Given the current state of healthcare systems,…
Or don’t. Healthcare Systems in Canada Are Siloed We think of healthcare in Canada as one system. But it isn’t. Healthcare is organized at the provincial level in Canada, but even provincially there isn’t one system. At all levels of healthcare there are many separate systems disguised as one system. Sometimes they communicate among themselves.…