Medical Champion Advocacy Services

Health and Physical Review - Wellness Assessment
- A complete evaluation of an individual's health status

Medical Preparation & Wellness Planning
- Provide a prevention plan for disease
- Manage an acute disease or chronic illness

Health Care Record Organization
- Organize an individual's health care records, lab results, and any tangible report or diagnosis that can be attained which has been conducted

Research
Research new technologies, procedures, protocols, hospitals and medication

Awareness/ Learning Forums
Creation and management of awareness events for any audience, forum  or medical purpose.

Accessibility
- 24/7/365 Access to your records on-line
- 24/7/365 Access to your Medical Care advocate

As all clients will be specifically evaluated and customized approaches designed, these are just a few of the services that we offer.

For More Information, contact Connie Ramos to set up an appointment:  email cramos@medicalchampion.com or phone 813-944-2558.

 

Questions and Answers with Connie Ramos, ARNP about Health Care Advocacy and her company, Medical Champion.

·         Describe your target client whom would best be served by this service.

Everyone!  From individuals with complicated health related issues to simply wanting to better understand prevention.  No matter if my client is completely healthy seeking advice with prevention or clients whom are dealing with a chronic illness or an acute problem; having a medical advocate look out for their best interest, will be helpful.  I will help my clients create easy tools, like a medical folder compiling various records, x-rays and lab results along with charts to offer guidance with the medications that they are on, and a comprehensive health and medical document illustrating family history and past medical issues that they have had; for the benefit of my client’s doctors to truly understand their patients. 

To narrow down the most immediate clients that this service would be helpful, would be: (1) Baby boomers getting ready to retire, (2) Young professionals trying to take care of themselves and (3) Mothers to be

·         What is the most concerning situation that your target client faces as they get older and potentially sick?

The most concerning situation for these individuals is the difficulty with navigating through the health care system, understanding options, planning, and getting most out of a visit with a doctor.  Stream lining multiple drugs that one may be taking is a clear need for building an overall plan.  A good acronym to the health management need could be similar to a financial advisor creating a budget; knowing how to organize health related issues and plan for prevention of them is paramount to success with health management.

·         How can you help?

Medical Champion will help individuals by providing organization, research and education.

·         Why your service is different than any other?

Do not know of existing local services.

·         What is your goal and future challenges offering this service?

Our Goal at Medical Champion is to help a person understand how to be a consumer of health care and prevent, decrease or remove personal error for those who use our service.

Our Challenge with making the Goal a success is to provide “amazing” direction and organized information to those seeking healthcare solutions.  The number 1 challenge is to remain true to our goal, offering consistent care.  We will strive to be as specific as our clients require, only taking on a manageable number of clients.

·         What is needed, wanted or wished?

There is a clear need and desire for individuals to approach health care with a strategy and be in control of each and every decision.  We wish to seek people who need help with medical advocacy and desire quality healthcare. 

·         What should people BE?

People should be willing to open up their health history, be vulnerable to share information, be ready to travel or make tough choices in changing doctors, locations and open to this idea.

·         What should people KNOW?

People should KNOW healthcare is not equal and doctors and systems are not created the same.

·         What should people FEEL?

Informed, in control, educated on options, protected and empowered.

·         What should people HAVE?

Open mind, willingness to spend money on something they might not be able to touch or see.

·         What should people DO?

Begin to look at their healthcare and their families and adapting to how their life works; do they travel, do they live in more than one location; therefore making managing one’s own healthcare more difficult.

·         How should success LOOK, FEEL, and SOUND?

By avoiding ER visits, having elective surgeries, as opposed to emergent.  And most importantly, by fitting into a healthy profile.

·         What criteria should be used to evaluate success?

Referral from one client to the next.  I plan to survey my clients and get direct feedback.

·         What might be changed or improved?

Regards to healthcare, the first would be prevention of disease.  If you have a ‘disease management’ of the disease by current up to date and well research treatments, a Medical Champion will adopt a prevention model, and an intervention model for disease states.

·         If the sky is the limit, what might be possible?

A way to put all the persons medical records on a electronic form that they can carry with them on travel and a way to manage keeping it up to date!!  We have partnered with Microsoft to create a system that can do this.  The system is a secure intranet website, where clients, family members and their doctors can view, edit, and update information.

·         What seems impossible, but if it could happen might improve the situation(s)?

Getting all the records together, organizing, and doing all the research to up to date medicines, procedures, etc  (trying to stay as current as possible).

·         What might be fun, humorous or crazy ideas?

Fun is being in control, prepared and to feel like you know more than your doctor prior to your visit.

·         What might other people approach or change the situation(s)?

They may want more!!  Meaning my clients might see the long term value in just having someone to bounce questions off of, they might understand prevention.

·         What metaphors, analogies or similes might relate to the situation(s)?

Not sure - maybe like a medical case manager in the 80’s

·         If people had unlimited money and resources, what might be done?

Fly in private jets for best care, stay in luxury hospitals and get VIP service while having health care.  Given VIP office visits with no waiting.  Yet obviously this may not be realistic to everyone…but what is realistic is to conduct proper due diligence and research required to find the protocols, procedures, doctors and medication that may be available to each individual client.

Connie, please provide your thoughts to these Quotes.

·         “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution; it is that they can’t see the problem.”

Most people do not realize how reactive our healthcare system is and more likely than not promote health but rather react to crisis.  While in a crisis, clients feel they are getting quality treatment and never second guess their treatment.  My point is that people research, shop, negotiate almost all other purchases in their life except their healthcare.

·         “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

Agree!!!!!!  If you don’t know of other treatment options, doctors, new advances, facilities then you seem quite content with your present situation.

·         “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”

Clients need guidance and tools to ask good questions, to challenge those who are taking care of them.

·         “A problem is a chance to do your best.”

During difficult situations you are challenged to make changes and work on researching new options or avenues to change.

·         “If you want to think outside the box, don’t put your brain in a box.”

If you want to see changes in our health care system or have better treatment then you have to do something radical and different.

·         “If you always think what you always thought, you will always get what you always got.”

If you don’t try it and show people that health care can be managed better and that they do have options, then they will never know.

·         “Life is great big canvas and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”

For my concept I think this says, you should know all options, you should think outside your doctor’s office or your zip code, and think of all the possibilities.