National Psoriasis Foundation's Patient Navigation Center is ready for you!
Are you a patient with psoriatic disease? Have a child with psoriatic disease? Want to get moving in the right direction with your health care? Want help setting your and achieving your psoriatic New Year’s resolutions? Are you ready to take control?
It doesn’t matter if you’re newly diagnosed or have been living with psoriatic disease for years, the National Psoriasis Foundation’s Patient Navigation Center is a fantastic resource to help you take control of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis! And guess what? It’s free!
Personalized Support
The Patient Navigation Center is the world’s first personalized support center for people impacted by psoriatic disease. Whether you’ve been newly diagnosed or have lived with your condition for years, patient navigators will work with you one-on-one to get the best care, treatment and support needed to manage your disease. They help you to expect more from and feel better about your health care, your medicines and your future with psoriatic disease. Whether you have one question or a thousand, the Patient Navigation Center is there for you short-term and long-term.
Team of Trained Professionals
Staffed by a team of specially-trained patient navigators, the Patient Navigation Center provides free guidance to all people affected by psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis - patients, families, caregivers, health care providers. They are there to answer specific disease-related questions, offer personalized guidance on access-to-care issues including social security disability, and provide ongoing support to help those impacted.
Patient navigators can even help you achieve your 2017 psoriatic resolutions by helping to set measurable goals, create a custom action plan, and track your progress. From adopting healthier eating habits to lowering monthly prescription costs, the Patient Navigation Center is your key to take control of psoriatic disease in 2017.
Services Offered
Check out these other personalized services to help you get the best care, treatment and support to manage disease:
Answer a vast range of questions about psoriatic disease.
Help find a specialist.
Help you prepare for your doctor appointments.
Provide medically-reviewed resources and information to help patients, families and caregivers understand and manage psoriatic disease.
Give one-on-one help to access medications, including sifting through all of the paperwork, insurance, denied claims, and helping you get financial assistance
Support you on your journey with psoriatic disease.
Connect you to ambassadors and mentors in your community to offer personal guidance.
Listen to your needs and concerns and help you live a full and healthy life with psoriatic disease.
Provide frequent communication and follow-up.
It’s important to note that patient navigators do not provide any diagnostic or medical services. They are not a substitute for the consultation of health care professionals, but instead are intended to be used in conjunction with the care provided by your doctors.
Contacting the Patient Navigation Center
You can reach patient navigators Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm Pacific Time, and they even have navigators who speak Spanish and other languages.
Email: education@psoriasis.org Phone: 800-723-9166, option 1 Text: 503-410-7766 Chat online: www.psoriasis.org/navigationcenter
Use the free services from the Patient Navigation Center to start 2017 off right because people who are more engaged with their care tend to achieve better health outcomes.
Happy New Year to all!
