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Professional Healthcare Management

Who represents you in healthcare?

Healthcare is one of the most complex marketplaces you will ever navigate. Decisions are shaped by network restrictions, appointment availability, and what insurance will pay. You are left managing the complexity.

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Why people call

"I don't know how to manage this. Do you know someone who does?"

Most people come to us after asking someone they trust a version of that question—one of our clients, a wealth advisor, a physician, or their employer.

Accessum Health is the firm you retain to navigate the healthcare marketplace and represent your interests. Led by a former hospital chief operating officer, our registered nurses and nurse practitioners build a written plan around your goals and see that each decision is carried out.

Where to begin

People come to us for very different reasons.

Health StrategyYour own health, managed deliberately, whether or not anything is wrong.It begins with your goals, shows where you stand, and keeps one written strategy current as your life changes.Explore Health Strategy Cancer NavigationA cancer diagnosis, and decisions that cannot wait.Second opinions worth traveling for, trials worth knowing about, and every step seen through with your physicians.Explore Cancer Navigation Complex CareCare that keeps breaking down, or a question no one has answered.Several conditions, several physicians, or a network that limits you. We find the options and hold the plan together.Explore Complex Care Aging & DementiaA parent or a spouse who needs more than one person can carry.A home assessment, a plan for staying at home, and the support that makes it hold.Explore Aging & Dementia

Not sure where to begin? Support can be arranged for you or someone you love, wherever they live.

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Representation

You have representation where the stakes are high. What about your health?

Money, law, and taxes are complicated and consequential, so you hire people who do them for a living and answer only to you. Healthcare is more complicated and more consequential than any of them, and it is the one place almost everyone goes without representation. Excellent physicians are not the same thing. Each is responsible for the part of your care in front of them. The years in between, and the plan across all of it, have no owner but you. Accessum is paid by you and answers only to you.

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Having the resources for exceptional care does not mean you are receiving it: four seats, each held by someone who answers only to you — wealth advisor, attorney, CPA — and, for your health, Accessum Health taking the fourth A white field with four tall seats, two by two. Wealth advisor, attorney, and CPA hold paper nameplates, each ending "Answers only to you." The fourth seat, your health, stands empty until a plum Accessum Health nameplate rises into it, ending the same way. Beneath: that seat has always been yours; now it has representation. Having the resources forexceptional care does notmean you are receiving it. You can have excellent physicians and still beresponsible for managing your healthcare yourself. YOURHEALTH YOURCAPITAL YOUR LEGALINTERESTS YOUR TAXEXPOSURE Wealthadvisor. Attorney. CPA. Answers onlyto you. Answers onlyto you. Answers onlyto you. YOURHEALTH AccessumHealth. Answers onlyto you. That seat has alwaysbeen yours.Now it has representation.

How we work

Every engagement follows the same three disciplines.

01

Goals

We start by asking what you want your health to make possible and on what timeline.

02

Judgment

We determine what deserves attention, in what order, and why.

03

Execution

We build the plan, arrange the right care, and manage each step as your needs change.

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The plan does not end when the appointment does.

Five Core Beliefs

What we believe. What we built.

Professional Healthcare Management is the discipline Accessum built to put these Five Core Beliefs into practice. They guide how we identify gaps in your healthcare and determine what needs to be managed. Your circumstances determine which we focus on—one, several, or all five.

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  1. Core Belief 01Healthcare requires professional representation.Our registered nurses and nurse practitioners represent your interests across physicians, institutions, and insurers.
  2. Core Belief 02People should be able to understand and direct their healthcare.We explain your situation, your options, and their tradeoffs against your goals, so you decide with your physicians.
  3. Core Belief 03Healthcare is longitudinal.Your health is one continuous story, not a series of visits. We keep its history, baselines, and reasoning together, and the strategy current.
  4. Core Belief 04Healthcare requires early, responsible detection.We bring risks and unanswered questions into view, and decide with your physicians what each one deserves.
  5. Core Belief 05Healthcare requires professional navigation and managed execution.We find the right care, arrange access to it, and see every step through, each with a name and a date.
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From one engagement

Her son lived a thousand miles away. His mother was coming home after three weeks in the hospital for a stroke, and his father could not carry the transition alone. He asked his wealth advisor who could help.

Our registered nurse met them at discharge, readied the house, organized every new medication, and came by every few days for weeks to see that the plan was holding.

NeurologyFirst available: six months6 days
CardiologyFirst available: four months10 days

We placed both parents with a new primary care physician, who now leads their medicine. We manage everything around it.

Hallie Woods, founder of Accessum Health

Who does the work

Clinicians, led by someone who ran a hospital.

Accessum's founder, Hallie Woods, spent fifteen years in hospital leadership, most recently as chief operating officer of a large Denver hospital. She knows how hospitals, practices, and insurers work from the inside. Registered nurses manage your plan and take your first call. Nurse practitioners bring clinical judgment to your side of the table. Your physicians lead the medicine. We manage the system around it.

Why Accessum

Professional Healthcare Management

What brought you here today?

Tell us. We will say where we can help, and where we cannot.

A diagnosis this week, a parent or a spouse who needs more than you can give, a recovery that has stalled, or the decades ahead. It starts with one conversation. You do not need an introduction to begin.

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Management and coordination are available remotely nationwide. Our nurses are based in Colorado and can travel with you to your specialist; in‑home support is available in Colorado. Both are arranged separately.