Review
Ellen Menard provides wonderful guidance for families who find themselves in a situation where they must suddenly deal with the care of an aging family member and teaches the reader to become an active participant in that care. --Michael B. Alexander, President, Lasell College, Newton, MA and CEO of Lasell Village, Inc., Newton, MA, a premier campus-affiliated living and learning retirement community
Ellen Menard takes common medical scenarios and synthesizes true personal stories to make them accessible to the everyday reader. Humble and straightforward, Ellen's story-telling emphasizes the power we all have within us to heal ourselves. No blame. No excuses. Only accountability. Only illumination. Ellen sheds a bright light on the importance of the relationships between patients, doctors and their care teams and the way to achieve desired quality and safe outcomes. If this book is about getting the health care we all need without fear and frustration, it nails it! --Gwen M. MacKenzie, President & CEO, Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, One of America's Best Hospitals-U. S. News and World Report
In my career of teaching many very talented students of management, I was often struck by how well they could lay out a business plan, but how poorly they managed their own personal issues-particularly health care. Ellen Menard's book, The Not So Patient Advocate, uses an original, creative and comprehensive method to help even such hapless MBA students, as well as executives, homemakers or graduate professors, weave their way through the maze that is currently health care. Menard's interesting and engaging style puts patients into a collaborative relationship with the caregiver in every health care setting to assure that they receive the very best health care. This is a must-read for anyone who cares about health care...their own and their loved ones. --Paul W. MacAvoy, PH.D., Williams Brothers Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Yale Business School
This book is a gem, invaluable for anyone dealing with a health care challenge and for anyone who has a loved one in the hospital. The author's been there, done this insights can help you take charge of your medical tratment so you don't feel so helpless. Her trifecta experience as a clinical nurse, senior health care executive and patient give her many thought-provoking true stories and heartfelt recommendations added impact. Read it and reap! --Sam Horn, noted author, lecturer and former Executive Director of the world-renowned Maui Writer's Conference.
About the Author
An award-winning corporate health care executive, hospital administrator and registered nurse, Ellen Menard, BSN, MBA, has spent over 30 years facilitating and creating optimal patient care. It was her passion for helping patients that led her to write this book. Her senior executive leadership experience includes tenure in four large health care systems, including Catholic Medical Center in New Hampshire, Central Maine Medical Center, Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts, and Inova Health System in Virginia. Ellen has written numerous articles, been a featured keynote speaker at national conferences and acted as a visiting lecturer at a number of colleges and universities. She has served on many boards of academic institutions and business consulting firms. Her company, Ellen Menard, Inc., offers business consultancy, executive and team coaching, writing and keynote speaking with an emphasis on medical issues. She is listed in Who's Who in American Women. Ellen and her husband, Arthur Menard, Esq., live in Sarasota, Florida.
