What is a Healthcare Advocate?Healthcare Advocacy is a burgeoning field that requires compassion, tenacity, and accountability. Businesses and individuals all over the United States have begun to seek out highly skilled health advocates in order to creatively solve individual and system level issues for patients and organizations. As an expert consultant, a Healthcare Advocate will guide the care of individuals and populations to make healthcare goals become a reality. What is the benefit of having your own Healthcare Advocate? Finally, the buck stops here. We stay with you and your company until resolution is found for your healthcare related challenges.Sarah Jane is a Master’s prepared Registered Nurse and Healthcare Advocate. She is available for contract with companies and individuals. Sarah Jane especially enjoys tackling the challenge of Financial Healthcare Advocacy. It takes an advocate with a rich background in the entire healthcare cycle to tackle the details of medical coding, insurance contracts and payment denials. Fifteen years as a Registered Nurse has taught Sarah Jane many valuable skills. Her time at major, urban, academic medical centers such as Harborview in Seattle and Weil-Cornell Medical Center in New York City, shaped her early career with rich learning environments. Her intensive care specialization gave her advanced training in cardiothoracic resuscitation and neurological emergencies. This scientific base has been a solid foundation upon which to lay disease specific program management experience, hospital quality leadership training, and strategic relationship building skills. Through her career she has earned additional certifications and honors including: 2023 feature in the Washington Post, 2023 featured guest on the Nutrition Edit podcast, 2019 first author medical research publication in the Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Disease, 2018 the Mary McClinton Patient Safety Award, Stroke Certified Registered Nurse (SCRN®), and the Critical Care RN Certification (CCRN®).