Someone who listens.
Understanding your concerns before offering direction.
Someone who understands healthcare. Someone standing beside you.
After more than thirty years as a nurse, Dena has cared for patients and families during some of the most vulnerable and defining moments of their lives.
Today, she brings that experience to independent healthcare advocacy—helping patients and families understand, prepare, communicate, and navigate complex care.

Patients may interact with multiple specialists, facilities, technologies, treatments, insurance systems, and care options.
Through all that complexity, one need remains remarkably simple: patients and families need someone standing beside them.
Dena offers knowledgeable, compassionate support while respecting each person’s values, wishes, priorities, and right to remain involved in their care.
Understanding your concerns before offering direction.
Bringing professional experience to complex situations.
Turning complexity into understandable next steps.
Helping patients and families prepare and communicate.
Keeping your needs and values in the conversation.
With greater preparation, clarity, and confidence.
Tell Dena what feels complicated. Together, you can discuss your priorities and the support that may help you move forward.