PATHS training can help anyone navigate the health care system, regardless of life stage or health. Rare is the individual untouched by a terminal or chronic illness — self, spouse, child, parent, sibling, or friend. Doctors tell us patients with advocates do better. When the patient and advocate are a trained team they have a more successful medical journey.

      However, PATHS training is not only for situations involving terminal or long-term chronic disease, though that is an important audience. This training also provides benefits during pediatric wellness visits or routine physicals. Even during a wellness check up a patient or parent must advocate for themselves or their child and that requires learned skills, which PATHS offers. Our seminar teaches skills that can be applied immediately and can benefit even a healthy person.

1. Why is Patient Advocacy Training needed? Rare is the individual that has not been touched by chronic illness — spouse, child, parent, sibling, or friend. Doctors tell us that patients with advocates do better. When the patient and an advocate form a team and are trained, they have a more successful medical journey. But even during a wellness check up, a patient or parent must advocate for themselves or their child and that requires learned skills, which PATHS offers. Our seminat teaches skills that can be applied immediately and can benefit even the healthy person.
2. Have you found yourself or a loved one with several medical conditions and multiple doctors? These all need coordination to provide the best unified care plan for the patient.
3. I’m doing fine right now, can’t I wait? No, don’t wait until you are in an acute situation.  Make the time now when things are relatively smooth to learn and plan.

      PATHS teaches patient and their advocates to be proactive in improving medical care. Remember "knowledge is power".