Celebrating Collaborative Medicine
LEARNING TO LIVE WITH DIGNITY IN THE MEDICAL WORLD

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Do your doctors really know you?

Have you ever asked your doctor
how the prescribed medicine
​or treatment plan will really affect your lifestyle?

​Why not?
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Supporting Champions, a 501C3, non-profit organization, is comprised of doctors, nurses, advocates and educators. 
As such, we specialize in taking complex topics and simplifying them. 
In the complexity of medicine, the common denominator always comes down to providers and patients.

  
After retiring from hospice nursing, I began collaborating with other like-thinking talents and created Supporting Champions to help patients to understand more of their own healthcare.

To this end, we have created a simple, user-friendly  book for all ages, in anthropomorphic style reminiscent of  Dr. Seuss, Walt Disney and  Lewis Carroll.  We have taken a fearsome subject, one of emotional turmoil for all involved, and disarm it in such a way as to nullify the  defenses we automatically use to protect us.

Our book, “Everybody Needs A Hippo” and its Collaboration Model: “The Dag Chart”, meets all the criteria of Medicare; fits within the designated office visit and helps to begin the conversation.  Our shared medical decision making tool will foment a collaboration that will reduce emotional stress and post-procedural litigation, contain costs and improve outcomes.

--- Cyndi Chamberlain, RN MS. 

What would it be like if we, as patients, could enter the medical arena and make important life-challenging decisions based on real information, instead of fear, hope and prayer?

We can help you make that happen!

Imagine, if you could improve the lives of your loved ones, your friends, or even your own.

Come, see how easy it is...

Collaboration Benefits

Medical Provider Benefits

• Higher success rate with true patient-provider collaboration
  
• Feeling seen and heard
• Less post-procedural stress
• Reduced exposure to litigation
• Improved patient compliance
• Lower incidence of burn out
  

Patient Benefits

• Fewer post-procedural surprises
• Feeling seen and heard
• Reduced costs for care and reduced medically-caused bankruptcies
• Less stress for patients, families, and friends
• Clarity and Accessibility of information pertinent to their unique beings
• Reduction in needless and wasteful medicines and procedures
• Reduction in the agonies of keeping patients alive at all costs
• Ability to truly participate in making their medical decisions
• Ownership and motivation to adhere to prescribed treatment plans
  

Third Party Benefits

• Reduction of wasteful and unnecessary procedures saving Medicare and Health Insurance companies billions of dollars annually
  
• Malpractice Insurance companies save millions of dollars with less litigation costs
• Families save substantially on out of pocket costs for their loved ones

The surgeon, FACS, Department Chief, Head and Neck Surgical Oncology of a large medical facility in Northern California, spent five minutes reviewing his patient's "The Dag Chart" found in the above booklet.  Within that time frame, he fully learned about what defined her "Quality of Life".  He then scheduled her for surgery on Wednesday.  On that day, he fully anesthetized her on the table and entered her mouth.  Within seconds, he withdrew from her mouth, realizing that if he cut out her tumor, he would destroy her quality of life.  When she awoke, he told her she would need chemo and radiation therapy and that surgery was not appropriate for her.

The doctor then wrote her:
"Wow!  That was quite powerful and representative of what most of my patients go through.  I think this can be a really useful tool for patients and providers.  Really great work!" 

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