If you or a loved one have ever been hospitalized, chances are that it was not a good experience. Not that being in the hospital is ever a "good" experience, but it can be a more positive one if you receive quality and expedient care.Unfortunately, more times than not, your stay is either longer than expected because treatment wasn't effective or you were discharged too early and you ended up back in the hospital soon after discharge. Either way, chances are that you didn't receive the best care possible. The Patient Care Advocacy Team can increase your chances of having a better experience by monitoring staff actions and effecting changes in your plan of care. We make sure that you receive the care that you need, deserve and have the right to receive.When you are sick or you are hurting and you go to the hospital, you expect that they will help you. You trust that the doctors and thence nurses will do what they should do, when they should do it in order to heal you or take your pain away. You trust that they are ordering all of the tests and labs and procedures that you need. You trust that no matter what, they will help you. The reality is that they can't.The reality is that hospitals are extremely short-staffed. Clinicians are forced to care for far too many patients at one time. Many of them are working double shifts and they are tired and they are overwhelmed and, unfortunately, that results in less than effective care, medical mistakes and patient neglect. Advocacy in healthcare settings is more important now than ever. Having a health care advocate can take the confusion out of your hospital experience. A patient care advocate will be your ears and your voice and he/she will always do what is in your best interest.The Patient Care Advocacy Team has one focused mission:To prevent barriers of care from negatively affecting your health