Catherine Callahan

Your Healthcare Advocate

I Can Help You with Your Health

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Catherine Callahan | Healthcare Advocate

Catherine Callahan

I am passionate about helping you with health advocacy issues.

  • Access effective healthcare
  • Improve quality of medical care
  • Get more control in managing your health challenges
  • Navigate your healthcare system

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Two ladies meeting across table | example of Healthcare Advocate

My Company

ICareHealthCare is a healthcare patient advocacy business. Goals? Be heard by your doctors, control your healthcare, and get better medical treatment. Member of the Alliance of Patient Health Advocates.
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Catherine Chronicles
The Catherine Chronicles

A few of my favorite thoughts, hopes, and suggestions, for you reading enjoyment.

Wish of the Month
Wish of the Month

Let’s Let’s learn, grow and be kind with one another.

Periods of Practice
Periods of Practicing

Life often gifts me an extended period during which I practice new ways of thinking, different ways of relating, connecting with others. Sheer dogged persistence has served me well. I have been most happily surprised by how much more flexible my life has become. Every day finds new and robust challenges to face, options for changing my approach, priorities and other beliefs that no longer serve.

Things End
Things End …

Things end. And while people think of our deaths as hardest to accept, I want to challenge that. I sometimes think that old people like me forget we can always learn and grow. The ways in which I enjoy my life now are very different from what I used to do that gave me pleasure. Difficult as it may be physically with health problems, this is hands down the best time of my life.

Difficult to Accept
Difficult to Accept …

One more “most difficult to accept” issue for me? To be gifted with life wisdom and to know bone-deep that we all must find our own ways. I’m happy to share but grateful to respect the incredible competence of people who are younger than I. To do them the courtesy of checking in before sharing.

One Strong Regret
One Strong Regret…

And one strong regret: no old person in my own life EVER told me old age could be so good. They must have known…

Psychology Today

What Is Authentic To You In A Medical Decision?

Huffington Post

11 Truths Only People With High-Functioning Depression Will Understand

A Place for Mom

Patient Advocates: What They Are And How to Use Them

This Book Helps

This book is a practical guide to healthcare advocacy tools and strategies. Use it to improve your healthcare, get need-to-know information, create effective healthcare relationships. Reviewed by doctors, nurses, therapists, and patients.

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Educate

Yourself & Loved Ones
  • Get very clear on what you want and need.
  • Take time to get familiar with the issue.
  • Gather information about your situation and the process you will use to make a decision.
  • Work out strategies.

Empower

Yourself & Loved Ones
  • Set your goal.
  • Assess your skill levels.
  • Pick two strategies to achieve your goal.
  • Set a brief timeline for task completion.
  • Post a joke to mark the transition to the Excel step.

Excel

Yourself & Loved Ones
  • Identify the advocacy skills you used to create and resolve the situation.
  • Explore which strategy worked best for you.
  • Restate the Empower goal using your most successful strategy.
  • Create a mission statement for yourself that will support and promote quality of life for yourself,  a family member or friend.
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