The Center for Patient Partnerships
People involved with the Center for Patient Partnerships
Clients
Individuals and families facing life-threatening and serious chronic illnesses contact the Center for assistance:
- understanding diagnosis and treatment options;
- offering hope, guidance, and information to inform medical decision making;
- support discussing illness with loved ones, friends, and colleagues;
- help applying for public and private disability, income continuation, benefits or health insurance; and
- ensuring coverage for care; and related employment issues.
Over 70% of our clients are from Wisconsin, but we assist persons from anywhere in the world, as modern technology and our resources permit.
Staff
Center staff provide experience and training in law, medicine, health policy, nursing, counseling and psychology, management, anatomy and cell biology, and engineering. They supervise student advocates from a variety of professional backgrounds and mentor cancer survivors training to be patient advocates through the Komen Advocates Training Program. Staff also teach graduate courses, oversee community projects such as the Latino and Hmong health initiative, collaborate with local and national organizations, and work towards innovation in our health care system.
Founders and Affiliated Staff
Our founders and affiliated staff had the vision to anticipate a growing consumer health advocacy movement. Because of their dedication and forethought the Center for Patient Partnerships has emerged as an international leader in health advocacy education and the patient-centered care movement.
Students
Students come to study at the Center from a variety of professional and graduate programs within the University of Wisconsin-Madison and from other universities. The Center fosters collaboration among students of law, medicine, nursing, health policy, health systems engineering, pharmacy, social work and other disciplines.
Volunteer Advocates
Through funding from the Madison Affiliate Chapter of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Center for Patient Partnerships recently launched the Komen Advocates Training Program, a new initiative to train breast cancer survivors as patient advocates. These women have volunteered to become the first "class" of Komen Advocates and are currently completing a series of workshops and readings to support their practical case management experience.
Want to Help?
As the Center for Patient Partnerships grows, you can help educate, advocate and innovate to make health systems more consumer-centered. Though we do not charge for our advocacy services, we welcome contributions to the Center. Please join the mission by contributing!
