Trisha Torrey

TOC: Your Independent Advocacy or Care Management Practice in a Time of Coronavirus / COVID-19

1 minute of reading / Leave a Comment / By Trisha Torrey / April 13, 2020

Table of Contents Find all COVID-19 / Coronavirus Pandemic posts listed here: …most recent listed first Update #5: For Your Listening and Learning Pleasure? (April 13, 2020) Update #4: Finding Opportunities During this Crisis (April 1, 2020) Update #3: Starter Ideas for Helping Clients During a Pandemic (March 21, 2020) Update #2: Fostering the Right Attitude for Your Clients and Your Practice (March 19, 2020) This is not a time to be waiting for things to change. Act now to help clients and your practice. First post: Patient Advocates and the Coronavirus (March 4, 2020) Let’s see what we can […]

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(Update #5) For Your Listening and Learning Pleasure…

2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment / By Trisha Torrey / April 13, 2020

Covid-19 Update: April 13, 2020 Whether you’re holed up in your home office, or enjoying a nice walk or other exercise, or anything in between, your earpods, or earbuds, or a headset can be your friend and teacher for three podcasts APHA recently recorded and published under the title Crisis Conversations.

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(Update #4) Finding Opportunities During this Crisis

3 minutes of reading / 1 Comment / By Trisha Torrey / April 1, 2020

Covid-19 Update: April 1, 2020 Sadly, but not surprisingly, I know those of you in practice just aren’t hearing much from new business / clients these days. Beyond the fact that everyone still appears to be in shock over this crisis (no surprise – aren’t we all?), I’m sure most people who might have been reaching out for help feel like even advocates would be helpless. After all – we’re all shut in. Even in areas where that’s not the law, smart people – the ones who reach out for private advocates – have taken those steps themselves. During the

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(Update #3) Starter Ideas for Helping Clients During a Pandemic

2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment / By Trisha Torrey / March 21, 2020

Covid-19 Update: March 21, 2020 Responses to my previous post indicate many advocates are beginning to emerge from your “OMG” moments and trying to figure out how to get started, to prepare yourselves for what is to come. GREAT! Here’s a start – a good idea for getting your head into the right space while you help others: Research local pharmacies, their hours, their delivery options, and phone numbers. Do some outreach to current and pending clients (call, text, or email) to ask them about their supply of their regular, daily meds, and to remind them they will need to

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(Update #2) Fostering the Right Attitude for Your Clients and Your Practice

3 minutes of reading / By Trisha Torrey / March 19, 2020

Covid-19 Update: March 19, 2020 During the past week, as the coronavirus / COVID-19 crisis has taken over our lives, I have heard from many advocates who are taking all the steps needed to stay safe, who tell me they are recommending such steps to others, and that (in the words of one) they are “just planning to wait it out until this all blows over.” No NO No No No! That is NOT the right thinking for smart practice owners! In fact, it’s just the opposite of how we should be looking at our world right now, as follows:

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Patient Advocates and the Coronavirus

5 minutes of reading / 1 Comment / By Trisha Torrey / March 4, 2020

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know you can’t turn on the news, read news online or in a newspaper, or attend an event, or go anywhere – in person or online – without seeing or hearing something about the 2019 coronavirus. It’s the only health-related story that can knock the horror of uncontrolled medical bills lower down the list of headlines. And, of course, because its eventual impact is totally unknown, it frightens people in ways only the media knows how to frighten people. Since we all work in the world of health and medical care, and

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Are You the Chicken? or the Pig?

4 minutes of reading / 1 Comment / By Trisha Torrey / February 13, 2020

If you consider a bacon-and-egg breakfast, what is the difference between the chicken and the pig? It’s a question that determines commitment. While the chicken can produce many eggs over a lifetime, the pig can produce bacon only once. The chicken may be involved in the breakfast, but the pig is totally committed. So what does that have to do with independent advocacy?

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