Offers a two hour training session for patients or advocates to help prepare individuals for hospitalization, understand the healthcare system and cope with a medical diagnosis. Call for more information.

Provides specially trained volunteers (ombudsman) who work to resolve complaints on behalf of residents of long-term care facilities, assist in the protection of their rights, assist family members, encourage participation in resident councils, and establish good working relations with the facility's administration and staff. Volunteers make regular visits to assigned facilities and are available to residents and family members who have questions or concerns. Volunteers are professionally supervised, and trained.

Provides assistance and advocacy for individuals who have questions, concerns and grievances with alcohol or drug treatment professionals or programs.

Offers information about patient rights when hospitalized, medical records review for quality of care and other information regarding health care through Medicare and Medicaid programs, including Medicaid fraud.

Assist individuals with mental illness and their families to know their rights with respect to medical and social services systems. Also helps with referrals to the various mental illness support groups that are available.

Works with state and local agencies and parents to identify and resolve interagency issues and jurisdictional disputes that impede access to services for children and youth who are hard-to-place and hard-to-serve because of their multiple disabilities

* Provides one-on-one assistance with a professional case manager to help patients, caregiver, or providers resolve healthcare issues relating to access or barriers to care, insurance related issues, disability eligibility, and connection to practical and financial resources

A national organization that serves as a liaison between the patient and their insurer, employer and/or creditors to resolve insurance, job discrimination and/or debt crisis matters relative to their diagnosis. Seeks to safeguard patients through mediation assuring access to care, maintenance of employment and preservation of financial stability. Provides legal consultation and referral services for patients facing denial of insurance coverage, employment discrimination and need for negotiating support with public assistance programs. In situations of health crisis, care workers offer free help in resolving issues. Website offers online request-for-help capability and has a directory of prescription drug patient assistance programs that offer medicines free of charge to physicians whose patients might not otherwise have access to necessary medicine.

Advocates for the rights and concerns of seniors who are residents of local nursing or assisted living facilities, or adult homes, when they or their families are concerned about situations or issues which have arisen while in their care.

A national organization that serves as a liaison between the patient and their insurer, employer and/or creditors to resolve insurance, job discrimination and/or debt crisis matters relative to their diagnosis. Seeks to safeguard patients through mediation assuring access to care, maintenance of employment and preservation of financial stability. Provides legal consultation and referral services for patients facing denial of insurance coverage, employment discrimination and need for negotiating support with public assistance programs. In situations of health crisis, careworkers offer free help in resolving issues. Website offers online request-for-help capability and has a directory of prescription drug patient assistance programs that offer medicines free of charge to physicians whose patients might not otherwise have access to necessary medicine.

Works to addresses the patient's rights issues for seniors when there are patient-right related problems, such as being denied admission to a hospital, an unsafe transfer, premature discharge from a hospital, poor discharge planning, poor quality of care, or lack of post-hospitalization care.

Provides information and resources to assist consumers regarding unresolved issues concerning a hospital stay, nursing facility, or home nursing care. Assistance is case specific. Also provides a description of regulatory over-sight structure of assisted living housing and programs. Does analysis of demographic information and service utilization patterns. Offers such information for program development and planning, offers recommendations for resident health and safety quality of care, options for developments, and program financing.

Provides assistance and legal advocacy to qualified individuals whose rights are being violated or have encountered discrimination due mental illness, developmental disabilities, or similar mental conditions.

* Provides community and caregiver services for older adults and their families that includes: Case management. Housekeeping and personal aide service. Help with errands. Personal emergency response system. Transportation. * Provides information, assistance and advocacy services that includes: Insurance counseling. Legal assistance. Long-term care options. * Provides nutrition services that includes: Farmers Market coupon program. Home delivered meals. Nutrition counseling and education. Senior lunch clubs.

* Offers Medicare case reviews including: Medicare Discharge Appeals: Helps Medicare beneficiaries file an appeal to dispute their discharge from a hospital or other healthcare setting. Quality of Care Complaints: Provides case review services on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries who wish to file a formal complaint about the quality of their care. Immediate Advocacy: Helps Medicare beneficiaries resolve issues relating to their care.

Offers tips for seniors and their loved ones to avoid fraud and abuse. Speakers are available to educate the public about issues like consumer frauds, senior scams, internet safety, civil and labor rights.Please report suspected neglect or abuse of nursing home residents to the NYS Department of Health Nursing Home Complaint hotline 888-201-4563 and to the Attorney General's Office at 800-771-7755. Suspected abuse can also be reported online through a form.

Offers information about patient rights when hospitalized, medical records review for quality of care and other information regarding health care through Medicare and Medicaid programs, including Medicaid fraud.

* Provides one-on-one assistance with a professional case manager to help patients, caregivers or providers resolve healthcare issues.

Offers one-on-one assistance with a professional case manager to help patients, caregivers or providers resolve healthcare issues. Case Managers are available to assist patients, caregivers and their providers who face debilitating, chronic or life threatening disease.

Provides advocacy and resources for older adults and persons with disabilities who lives in nursing homes, assisted living, and other licensed adult care homes as well as behavioral health services.

* Offers a 24 hour Helpline that provides reliable information and support to people with memory loss, as well as, caregivers, health care professionals, and the public.* Offers free community education courses on Alzheimer's disease. * Provides social activities to encourage individuals with Alzheimer's disease to continue engaging in the activities they enjoy. * Offers care consultation that provides needs assessment, planning and problem solving, plan development and support.* Provides education regarding prevention of wandering.

Provides free legal representation in eight counties of Western New York. The Chautauqua County office offers legal services in the areas of: - Assisted Living - Evictions - Consumer Protection - Elder Abuse Prevention - Foreclosure Prevention - Health Care Advocacy - Housing - Income Maintenance - Substituted Decision Making - Western New York Coalition Pooled Trust Also houses the Elder Advocacy Program, a cross-systems community collaboration to address elder abuse. The Elder Advocacy Program acts as a single point-of-entry for elder abuse survivors, assessing their needs and providing appropriate legal and non-legal services to end abuse and empower survivors.

Provides free legal representation in eight Western New York counties in the areas of: - Assisted Living - Evictions - Consumer Protection - Elder Abuse Prevention - Foreclosure Prevention - Health Care Advocacy - Housing - Income Maintenance - Substituted Decision Making - Western New York Coalition Pooled Trust