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One of the primary treatment goals of all the Pride Medical
services is to facilitate, encourage or to otherwise enable each individual patient to
become involved in a process that will enhance emotional and spiritual growth, and assist
in having him/her reach a higher level of functioning, creativity and satisfaction. This
goal is rarely achieved immediately, but the seeds for such growth needed is always kept
in mind so opportunities to nurture such growth will not be lost. Our approach is defined
as an integrated, inter-disciplinary approach by a team of professionals which affords the
person the opportunity to better function and achieve maximum potential. Many times,
complications arise with respect to health insurance claims or understanding of benefits,
work related issues due to illness or various other related factors. Unnecessary losses of
health care benefits can cause delays in the provision of continuous medical care, (for
example in being discharged from the hospital and provision of other medical care), thus
generating increased expense and dependency, as well as contributing to the overall stress
and physical/psychological deterioration. Understanding health care benefits is essential
for patients to (1) maintain continuous coverage, (2) determine efficient utilization and,
(3) acknowledge any insurance caps. Being proactive with this knowledge, allows one to
prepare and plan for healthcare in areas projecting a need for additional or supplemental
benefits. In part of the planning and advocacy agenda, our goal is to assist in helping
facilitate planning for maintaining control in medical service delivery. To enhance that
delivery, Pride Medical offers the following:
For assistance, please contact Dave Conrader at Ext. 324. |
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