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Celebrating our 6th Annual Private Professional Patient Advocates Week
This week, March 20 to 26, 2016 marks our 6th Annual Private Professional Patient Advocates Week, and as predicted last year, yes – our profession is growing marvelously! Last year we did a recap of the history of the profession. This year we’re going to provide some updates and some food for thought. A New Website for This Year’s Celebration For 2016, we’ve updated our PPPAW website, putting far more emphasis on our featured advocates, and introducing to the public the winner of this year’s Schueler Award, Karen Mercereau, too. Good looking group, right? Our 12 featured professional patient advocates hail from across the United States, and provide a wide variety of advocacy services to clients every day. Meet our featured advocates. Some Updated Statistics In 2015 we reported 550 APHA members. This year we’ve grown to 620+ members! (Numbers change every day.) APHA Members now represent 41 states and 2 Canadian provinces, with international members hailing from Australia, Brazil, England, Ireland, Israel, the Philippines, and Spain. We have added three new services to our master list of services being provided by members. The AdvoConnection Directory has now been viewed by 169,876 people, up from 143,000+ last year, with our highest number of unique visits in January 2016 (6,172), and at an average of 141 per day in the past year. That’s 141 people looking for an advocate, so if you aren’t in the directory – you need to be. People are looking for you! Our members have been mentioned, quoted and featured in dozens of media – you can see the master list here. News Since Last Year’s PPPAW This past year has been defined by growth, investment and some growing pains, too. Of the 12 websites associated with APHA (and PPPAW), we have rebuilt 10 of them, and are in the process of rebuilding the last two. That’s a lot of investment in the profession’s growth – serving our clients (you the advocate) in order to serve the patients who need you. This includes the move to our new APHA Connect! Forum – a shift from our old…