The Center for Patient Partnerships
Educate
At the Center, future health care providers, attorneys, health policy experts, social workers and health systems engineers work with patients to become effective advocates. Through coursework, practical advocacy experience, and independent study, students collaborate to understand and address problems in the health care system.
Training and Graduate Student Courses
Traning Programs for Volunteers and Employers
The Komen Advocates Training Program
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.
Baldwin Grant Trainings for EAP and HR Professionals
The Center in affiliation with the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment is now offering professional training courses. The first of these is called "Strategies to Help Employees Navigate the Health Care System". As health care systems grow more complex, employees and their families face many challenges as they attempt to access quality care. At the same time, employers' investments in health care benefit packages climb, and managers want to ensure employees are getting the most from their premium dollars. Faculty from the Center for Patient Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin will guide participants as they examine key challenges and strategies that Human Resource (HR) managers and Employee Assistance Professionals (EAP) can use to help employees help themselves.
Courses for Graduate Students
In graduate-level courses, students meet regularly with staff and guest experts from a range of disciplines to explore aspects of patient-centered care. They examine health system financing and delivery, barriers to health care access, the legal rights of patients and alternatives for health care reform. In the Center's learning program, students provide free advocacy services to patients with life-threatening and serious chronic illnesses. By working directly with clients, as well as students and faculty from a variety of disciplines, students learn the skills they need to advocate for individual patients and for system-wide transformation.
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!
