Patient caregiver activist, Nikki Montgomery, brings voices to healthcare Board of Directors for safety, access, and equity. Orientation, dashboards, mentorship
Chronic pain, medical choices, tech, & health equity converge in a free-wheeling conversation with the Patient-Family Advisor Network chronic pain task force.
Engage academia and hospitals with patient family advisors. Not rocket science, not window dressing. Basic stuff, yet a challenge. With James Harrison at UCSF.
Careful what you wish for. Health equity and participatory medicine depend on the widespread meaningful use of patient family advisors. The trickle of such advisors should be a stream. Unfortunately, even if the supply could meet demand, health care administrators, researchers, entrepreneurs lack skill in making good use of patient family advisors. Libby Hoy leads Patient Family-Centered Care Partners, a small organization with a large vision for improving the quality, safety, and experience of healthcare through the development of authentic partnerships from the bedside caregiving relationship to the boardroom.