Our Sponsors & Partners
We are proud to announce WASHAA's latest Sponsors and Partner Members!
* A Better Way Professional Health Advocacy, LLC *
* Acadia Healthcare *
* Alliance of Professional Health Advocates *
* A Sacred Passing *
* Assumption University *
* Banister Advisors *
* Beacon Advocates *
* Beverly's Daughter *
* Bridge Health Advocates *
* CampaignZERO *
* Care Excellence Institute *
* CarePartners Senior Living *
* Eldergrow *
* EndBrainCancer Initiative | Chris Elliot Fund *
* End of Life Washington *
* Era Living *
* Everybody Needs a Nurse *
* Family Resource Home Care *
* Final Roadmap *
* Greater National Advocates *
* Guardian Nurses Healthcare Advocates *
* MedWise Insurance Advocacy *
* MyCare Alliance *
* My Junna Software *
* National Association of Healthcare Advocacy *
* North Shore Patient Advocates *
* Patient Advocate Certification Board *
* Patient Care Partners, LLC *
* PinnacleCare *
* RN Patient Advocates of Puget Sound *
* Sound *
* WE Trust Company *
* With a Little Help *
* A Better Way Professional Health Advocacy, LLC *
* Acadia Healthcare *
* Alliance of Professional Health Advocates *
* A Sacred Passing *
* Assumption University *
* Banister Advisors *
* Beacon Advocates *
* Beverly's Daughter *
* Bridge Health Advocates *
* CampaignZERO *
* Care Excellence Institute *
* CarePartners Senior Living *
* Eldergrow *
* EndBrainCancer Initiative | Chris Elliot Fund *
* End of Life Washington *
* Era Living *
* Everybody Needs a Nurse *
* Family Resource Home Care *
* Final Roadmap *
* Greater National Advocates *
* Guardian Nurses Healthcare Advocates *
* MedWise Insurance Advocacy *
* MyCare Alliance *
* My Junna Software *
* National Association of Healthcare Advocacy *
* North Shore Patient Advocates *
* Patient Advocate Certification Board *
* Patient Care Partners, LLC *
* PinnacleCare *
* RN Patient Advocates of Puget Sound *
* Sound *
* WE Trust Company *
* With a Little Help *
A Better Way Professional Health Advocacy, LLC
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Contact A Better Way Professional Health Advocacy, LLC
Email: abetterwayadvocacy@gmail.com Phone: 608-333-2522 |
Christine Van Haren is a Pharmacist, Board Certified Patient Advocate, and founder of A Better Way Professional Health Advocacy LLC, providing personalized services to patients, their families, and their caregivers.
Her passion lies in walking alongside clients on their health care journeys, pulling together the fragmented pieces of our health care system to provide them with a greater understanding of their health, their care, and their options.
Christine also has expertise in medical billing and denied claim appeals, as well as assisting those living with mental health and substance use disorders to navigate the behavioral health system.
A Better Way Professional Health Advocacy LLC provides Continuing Education courses approved by the PACB through A Better Way Advocacy Training. See abetterwayadvocacy.org for more details.
Her passion lies in walking alongside clients on their health care journeys, pulling together the fragmented pieces of our health care system to provide them with a greater understanding of their health, their care, and their options.
Christine also has expertise in medical billing and denied claim appeals, as well as assisting those living with mental health and substance use disorders to navigate the behavioral health system.
A Better Way Professional Health Advocacy LLC provides Continuing Education courses approved by the PACB through A Better Way Advocacy Training. See abetterwayadvocacy.org for more details.
Acadia Healthcare
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Acadia Healthcare’s behavioral health treatment facilities are specialized in helping children, teenagers, and adults suffering from mental health disorders and/or alcohol and drug addiction. Our expertise in behavioral health allows us to provide the highest standard of treatment allowing recovery for the individual and their families. Our dedicated clinical teams across the country are passionate about every single one of their patients and their individual recovery.
Our experienced, highly skilled behavioral health clinical teams which include psychiatrists, physicians, nurses, social workers and addiction professionals, are changing lives every day and in many cases saving lives everyday.
Our experienced, highly skilled behavioral health clinical teams which include psychiatrists, physicians, nurses, social workers and addiction professionals, are changing lives every day and in many cases saving lives everyday.
To Learn More, Visit Their Website:
Alliance of Professional Health Advocates
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The goal of the Alliance is to help private, independent advocates start and grow successful practices, to help them maximize their reach, and therefore improve patient outcomes. It is based on the recognition that many of those people with the very best of advocacy skills don’t always have the necessary business skills which are vital to that success. We help them balance their skills between advocacy and business.
A Sacred Passing
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A Sacred Passing offers death and dying education, planning, and practical care guidance to individuals, community associations, and medical organizations. Together we work as supportive companions to guide and assist people towards a more conscious dying experience, while honoring individual autonomy.
A Sacred Passing Crew works to create and sustain anti-racist environments and gender inclusivity in our classrooms, education material, and community partnerships. In community, we work to actively dismantle systems of power and oppression, as they present in death and dying through education, care and advocacy.
A Sacred Passing Crew works to create and sustain anti-racist environments and gender inclusivity in our classrooms, education material, and community partnerships. In community, we work to actively dismantle systems of power and oppression, as they present in death and dying through education, care and advocacy.
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Assumption University
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Join a New Generation of Professionals who Help People Navigate the Healthcare System
Assumption University's fully online Health Advocacy program imparts the knowledge, skills, competencies and habits of mind necessary for aspiring and established healthcare professionals to pursue careers in case management and health advocacy. Our program integrates key elements of ethics, policy, economics, technologies, disease/disabilities and relational dynamics with an emphasis on individual-level case management.
Graduates from the Health Advocacy program will operate from strengths-based, culturally sensitive frameworks that value, respect and empower clients/patients and enhances healthcare organizations and systems.
Assumption University's fully online Health Advocacy program imparts the knowledge, skills, competencies and habits of mind necessary for aspiring and established healthcare professionals to pursue careers in case management and health advocacy. Our program integrates key elements of ethics, policy, economics, technologies, disease/disabilities and relational dynamics with an emphasis on individual-level case management.
Graduates from the Health Advocacy program will operate from strengths-based, culturally sensitive frameworks that value, respect and empower clients/patients and enhances healthcare organizations and systems.
Banister Advisors
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Banister Advisors, LLC is a professional services firm that helps clients gracefully navigate some of life’s most overwhelming circumstances. Our focus includes health crisis, complex eldercare, end-of-life, and bereavement. Banister’s team of professionals is dedicated to ensuring that client concerns are addressed discreetly, efficiently, and appropriately. Our backgrounds span client services, clinical social work, strategy consulting, law, licensed mental health, mediation, pastoral care, and hospitality. We collaborate with world-class partners to deliver outcomes for clients using a compassionate, team-based approach. With offices in Seattle and Portland, we serve clients around the world using remote, in-person, and hybrid models.
Beacon Advocates
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Our MISSION is to improve the cancer care experience by eliminating barriers to excellent care through our professional navigation and advocacy services for people affected by cancer.
OUR INTERNAL COMPASS DRIVES OUR CORE VALUES:
OUR INTERNAL COMPASS DRIVES OUR CORE VALUES:
- Patient-values first
- Compassionate
- Collaborative
- Results-Oriented
Beverly's Daughter
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Beverly’s Daughter is a company founded by Laura Berry on the principles of empathy, trust, and openness. Laura chose the company name in honor of her mother, Beverly. She recognized that she was looking for information in the final stages of her mother’s life, not on how to be a better caregiver, but how best to be a caring daughter to her aging mother. Laura and her family strove to care for her mother as she journeyed through the struggles of physical and mental changes and found that there were many needs unmet. Our offerings come from the realization that information, quality products, and trusted professionals are still difficult to find in our world, and we would like to make it easier to take care of your loved ones without research and worry about what is best for them.
Bridge Health Advocates
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The Bridge Health Advocates provides unparalleled health advocacy and business training
while supporting a dynamic community of professional health advocates.
while supporting a dynamic community of professional health advocates.
CampaignZERO
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Our mission is for patients, their families, and care providers to be on the same page for patient safety using CampaignZERO’s checklists and tools. This collaboration will ensure:
- Patients are spared preventable harm during hospital stays
- Every patient is fully supported in recovery at home
Care Excellence Institute
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Improving Healthcare Quality
Care Excellence Institute believes that all people should receive person-centered high-quality healthcare. To this aim, we provided education, coaching and consulting for healthcare practitioners and organizations for the benefit of patients, their families and caregivers.
Care Excellence Institute believes that all people should receive person-centered high-quality healthcare. To this aim, we provided education, coaching and consulting for healthcare practitioners and organizations for the benefit of patients, their families and caregivers.
CarePartners Senior Living
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CarePartners Senior Living was established in 1998 and is a Western Washington located and owned management company exclusively serving its commonly-owned Senior Care Communities. CarePartners operates 15 Communities from Lacey to Marysville in Western WA., and Spokane in Eastern Washington. Our approach has been to concentrate our Communities in geographically close locations to be extremely responsive to the needs of our Communities and our Residents. Locally focused and close to our Communities means we can connect to our Residents and Families in a meaningful and personal way, without the large corporate red tape and far-away distance.
Eldergrow
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Eldergrow brings nature indoors to residential and long-term care settings. We provide residents with a meaningful connection to nature through two innovative, therapeutic horticulture programs that feature our mobile, indoor gardens. The full-service therapeutic horticultural program comes with onsite Educators and maintenance, while our new DIY culinary herb garden program brings 'farm to fork' into senior living communities!
EndBrainCancer Initiative | Chris Elliot Fund
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Everything we do is directed towards our ultimate mission, which is to End Brain Cancer within our lifetimes. We are unique in the one-on-one personalized support we offer to brain tumor patients and their families.
Additionally, we:
- Provide patients with IMMEDIATE ACCESS to advanced treatment options, specialists, and comprehensive support programs.
- Provide support and guidance concerning the DAY-TO-DAY needs of patients and their caregivers.
- Educate the general public on matters related to brain tumors and brain cancer.
- Advocate on issues of national public health policy impacting the lives and welfare of brain tumor patients/brain cancer patients.
Our ultimate goal is to put ourselves out of business when a cure is found for brain cancer and our services are no longer needed.
End of Life Washington
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We envision a world where people understand their end-of-life choices and can die on their own terms, without barriers.
End of Life Washington is a statewide organization that supports people preparing for their final days. We advocate for the right to a peaceful death. There is never a fee for our services.
End of Life Washington is a statewide organization that supports people preparing for their final days. We advocate for the right to a peaceful death. There is never a fee for our services.
ERA Living
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Senior Independent Living and Assisted Living Communities in the Greater Seattle Area
Era Living offers eight premier retirement communities in the Seattle and greater Seattle area. Enjoy a warm and vibrant lifestyle, a vast array of amenities, elegant dining rooms with in-house chefs, rich programming, and compassionate Independent Living and Assisted Living care, as well as Skilled Nursing and Memory Care at select communities.
Everybody Needs A Nurse
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Our mission is to support seniors and their families as they transition through complex medical situations, keeping them out of the hospital, the ER and rehab.
Our RN patient advocates support seniors and their families in the Triangle area of NC as they navigate complex medical situations. We are passionate about caring for our clients and making their aging process less stressful for them and their families.
Our proven program involves weekly home visits, medication management, accompanying our clients to their doctor visits and coordinating services.
After each visit to the home or the doctor we send a descriptive Family Report, containing our observations and thoughts, making sure everyone has all the information they need to make informed decisions. These reports are like having a second pair of eyes and ears and provide a picture of how our client is doing week-to-week.
Our company was founded in 2007 by Diane Halloran, RN, MPH after a 40-year career as a nurse. Diane saw the opportunity to keep our clients from suffering unnecessarily by offering the insight of a registered nurse to help people through life's changes.
Our RN patient advocates support seniors and their families in the Triangle area of NC as they navigate complex medical situations. We are passionate about caring for our clients and making their aging process less stressful for them and their families.
Our proven program involves weekly home visits, medication management, accompanying our clients to their doctor visits and coordinating services.
After each visit to the home or the doctor we send a descriptive Family Report, containing our observations and thoughts, making sure everyone has all the information they need to make informed decisions. These reports are like having a second pair of eyes and ears and provide a picture of how our client is doing week-to-week.
Our company was founded in 2007 by Diane Halloran, RN, MPH after a 40-year career as a nurse. Diane saw the opportunity to keep our clients from suffering unnecessarily by offering the insight of a registered nurse to help people through life's changes.
Family Resource Home Care
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Contact Family Resource Home Care
Locations: King, Pierce, Snohomish counties, Eastern Washington & Idaho Phone: 206-545-1092 |
We support families in our community and each other by providing home care services that increase the quality of life for our clients. We are recognized leaders in home care and are guided by our core values: respect, kindness, commitment and integrity.
ADL's to adults and those in need of hands-on physical help. We provide care within the privacy of one's own home, maintaining all the comforts and familiarity of a lifetime of memories. ARNP on staff as COO, RN Client Care Manager, MSW Client Care Manager serving the Puget Sound area.
ADL's to adults and those in need of hands-on physical help. We provide care within the privacy of one's own home, maintaining all the comforts and familiarity of a lifetime of memories. ARNP on staff as COO, RN Client Care Manager, MSW Client Care Manager serving the Puget Sound area.
Final Roadmap
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Final Roadmap believes passionately that every individual should receive the medical treatment they desire and to be prepared when they are unable to speak for themselves. To that end we have created a service that allows one to consider, document and communicate those wishes and instructions. We help guide conversations with advocates to ensure wishes are followed.
Recently a report came out by The Institute of Medicine that says, “A lack of an end of life plan, created well in advance, typically leads to prolonged hospitalization, soaring medical bills and unnecessary pain and suffering for everyone.”
Final Roadmap is a secure, comprehensive online guide and toolkit for all end of life issues. Final Roadmap works as a web-based toolkit, is secure, discreet and amazingly user friendly. It is straightforward as well as comprehensive. A person buys Final Roadmap once and keeps it forever, changing it as much and often as he or she desires and communicating instructions securely with family, loved ones, advisors and providers.
Recently a report came out by The Institute of Medicine that says, “A lack of an end of life plan, created well in advance, typically leads to prolonged hospitalization, soaring medical bills and unnecessary pain and suffering for everyone.”
Final Roadmap is a secure, comprehensive online guide and toolkit for all end of life issues. Final Roadmap works as a web-based toolkit, is secure, discreet and amazingly user friendly. It is straightforward as well as comprehensive. A person buys Final Roadmap once and keeps it forever, changing it as much and often as he or she desires and communicating instructions securely with family, loved ones, advisors and providers.
Greater National Advocates
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Caring Professionals Ready to Help
Our mission is to wake up the nation to the lifesaving benefits of Independent Patient Advocacy and provide patients and loved ones with immediate online access to a trusted network of qualified practitioners. We use fact-based media to spread awareness and steer patients and their loved ones to GNANOW.org where they can learn more about Independent Patient Advocacy and find the professional support they need.
Our mission is to wake up the nation to the lifesaving benefits of Independent Patient Advocacy and provide patients and loved ones with immediate online access to a trusted network of qualified practitioners. We use fact-based media to spread awareness and steer patients and their loved ones to GNANOW.org where they can learn more about Independent Patient Advocacy and find the professional support they need.
Guardian Nurses | Healthcare Advocates
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Our team of Registered Nurses has one goal: To make the healthcare system work for patients and families
When you enter the healthcare system, it’s often because you or someone you love is ill or injured, sick, or in need of long term care. You have questions and you need help. But what you often find is a confusing maze of tests and treatments, opinions and options, endless forms, unfamiliar terms, hard choices to make and large bills to pay. You may not know which way to turn.
When you turn to Guardian Nurses, you get answers to your questions and a nurse advocate to help you navigate the healthcare system so that it works for you. A registered nurse gets to know you, your situation and your needs. Your nurse gathers the best available information and explains it in plain language so that you can make the best possible decisions for yourself or a loved one. Then your nurse becomes your personal guide and champion, advocating for you with doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, nursing homes, equipment suppliers, community services — anyone and everyone involved in your care. She’ll even go with you to your doctors’ appointments!
With a nurse advocate lighting your way, you see everything more clearly. Peace of mind replaces stress, frustration and fear. You know you’re going to have the best possible healthcare experience because a caring, competent, professional nurse is on your side and by your side, every step of the way.
When you enter the healthcare system, it’s often because you or someone you love is ill or injured, sick, or in need of long term care. You have questions and you need help. But what you often find is a confusing maze of tests and treatments, opinions and options, endless forms, unfamiliar terms, hard choices to make and large bills to pay. You may not know which way to turn.
When you turn to Guardian Nurses, you get answers to your questions and a nurse advocate to help you navigate the healthcare system so that it works for you. A registered nurse gets to know you, your situation and your needs. Your nurse gathers the best available information and explains it in plain language so that you can make the best possible decisions for yourself or a loved one. Then your nurse becomes your personal guide and champion, advocating for you with doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, nursing homes, equipment suppliers, community services — anyone and everyone involved in your care. She’ll even go with you to your doctors’ appointments!
With a nurse advocate lighting your way, you see everything more clearly. Peace of mind replaces stress, frustration and fear. You know you’re going to have the best possible healthcare experience because a caring, competent, professional nurse is on your side and by your side, every step of the way.
MedWise Insurance Advocacy
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MedWise Insurance Advocacy is a nationwide medical healthcare insurance advocacy. We support individuals and their families, elder law and personal injury attorneys on medical claim matters by examining, inspecting, evaluating, auditing, analyzing and resolving denied medical bills, liens, insurance pre-authorizations, denied health insurance claims, denied medical claims, letters of appeal, understanding explanation of benefits, long term care claims and more.
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MyCare Alliance
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My Care Alliance supports advocates with comprehensive business solutions that deliver highly personalized and valued services to those in need. Our solutions are part of an integrated, cloud-based platform. They operate in a real time through a mobile application that manages your clients, workflows, schedules, and billing seamlessly. Designed for ease of use so you can focus on the patients needs, not on managing technology.
Whether you are just starting out as a solo practitioner or part of an established practice, we have affordable solutions that are easily customized. Not only to meet your specific needs, but most importantly to meet the needs of those that rely on you - your patients.
Whether you are just starting out as a solo practitioner or part of an established practice, we have affordable solutions that are easily customized. Not only to meet your specific needs, but most importantly to meet the needs of those that rely on you - your patients.
My Junna Software
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We provide a cloud based client management software system for advocates. Our system has everything an advocacy business needs to run smoothly: case notes, billing, organize community resources, calendar tasks, custom forms and more. 100% HIPAA compliant. We pride ourselves in being the one system an advocate needs while being cost effective for even the single user!
National Association of Healthcare Advocacy
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The National Association of Healthcare Advocacy is the professional healthcare advocacy organization; we are dedicated to the improvement of patient outcomes through continuing education, promotion of national standards of practice, and active pursuit of policy changes, leading to a high standard of person-centered healthcare.
We promote rigorous standards for the practice of advocacy including ethical considerations and codes of conduct when providing medical decision-making support.
We educate consumers and healthcare professionals on research and current trends in patient-centered navigation, advocacy and decision-making support.
We partner with individual advocates and other grassroots organizations to collaborate on patient-centered reforms that maximize use of the healthcare system, protect consumer choice and improve access to high quality, affordable care.
We promote rigorous standards for the practice of advocacy including ethical considerations and codes of conduct when providing medical decision-making support.
We educate consumers and healthcare professionals on research and current trends in patient-centered navigation, advocacy and decision-making support.
We partner with individual advocates and other grassroots organizations to collaborate on patient-centered reforms that maximize use of the healthcare system, protect consumer choice and improve access to high quality, affordable care.
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North Shore Patient Advocates
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We provide you with an experienced private professional health advocate to guide you through the complex world of modern healthcare. We advocate for individuals of all ages throughout the Chicagoland area, providing expertise and reassurance. We help our clients make the wisest healthcare decisions. As many have told us, “It’s like having a nurse in your family!”
Patient Advocate Certification Board
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The Patient Advocate Certification Board works to manage and maintain a universally recognized certification for patient/health advocates; establish and maintain relevant knowledge domains, skills, ethical standards and best practices for advocates; collaborate with healthcare consumers to achieve patient and family centered care; establish professional development for certified advocates; and promote and professionalize patient advocacy.
Patient Care Partners, LLC
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Patient Care Partners is a team of experienced professional advocates who work with private clients to navigate healthcare and insurance systems. Our team includesnursing advocacy support, case management support and medical billing support all focused on improved patient outcomes. We take difficult situations and assist in resolving them to the benefit of the patient. We give a voice to those who feel like the system is not listening. We help families and caregivers who are exhausted and feel guilty about not meeting all the needs of their loved ones.
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PinnacleCare
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PinnacleCare helps you navigate the complexities of the health care system by championing your individual needs. PinnacleCare was founded based on the need for an objective, unbiased resource to help guide individuals and their families through a logical, thorough and informed decision-making process in all matters related to their health.
PinnacleCare brings the peace of mind that comes with having 24×7 access to a universal medical record and a health advisory team to coordinate leading health experts, world-renowned specialists, and evidence-based treatment options – wherever and whenever they should be needed.
PinnacleCare brings the peace of mind that comes with having 24×7 access to a universal medical record and a health advisory team to coordinate leading health experts, world-renowned specialists, and evidence-based treatment options – wherever and whenever they should be needed.
RN Patient Advocates of Puget Sound
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Sound
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Founded in 1966, Sound is one of King County’s most comprehensive providers of quality mental health and addiction treatment services, supporting 26,000 of our region’s most vulnerable populations through 17 locations and expanded telehealth services. A central tenet of our work is Reaching Recovery, an evidence-based clinical care model that promotes high levels of client engagement, improves health care outcomes and enables providers to better measure a client’s recovery. Our award-winning and innovative programs help our clients reach lives of recovery, reconnect with their families and re-engage with their communities. As a healthcare organization, we work with primary care and other partners to support the holistic well-being of our clients.
WE Trust Company
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WE Trust Company provides professional fiduciary services: Personal bookkeeping and estate execution services. We take care of paperwork for individuals who want or need to use their time for other things. In business for over twenty years, and now a certified trust company in the State of Washington.
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With a Little Help
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With a Little Help provides loving and supportive home care to seniors and others with special needs with the goal of helping seniors stay active and engaged in life.
We believe excellent home care accomplishes daily tasks, creates bonds that nurture the soul and provides peace of mind to seniors and their families. The special focus we place on building rewarding relationships between seniors and our mature, dependable caregivers forms the heart of our home care company. Our caregivers happily assist with everything from meals, light housekeeping and transportation to personal care and bathing on an hourly, daily or overnight customized schedule.
With a Little Help is an award-winning, locally-owned Washington State licensed home care company proud to be serving communities in King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties since 1999.
We believe excellent home care accomplishes daily tasks, creates bonds that nurture the soul and provides peace of mind to seniors and their families. The special focus we place on building rewarding relationships between seniors and our mature, dependable caregivers forms the heart of our home care company. Our caregivers happily assist with everything from meals, light housekeeping and transportation to personal care and bathing on an hourly, daily or overnight customized schedule.
With a Little Help is an award-winning, locally-owned Washington State licensed home care company proud to be serving communities in King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties since 1999.
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