MISSION STATEMENT: Patient Advocate Detroit, Michigan
& Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Winnick Patient Advocacy (WPA) helps patients and their families negotiate their way through the medical health care system.  We are there for you – like family.  We help patients get the care they need in a timely, effective, and comprehensive manner.  We facilitate communication between you and your doctor, and between your physicians, nurses, clergy, social and health care workers.  We act as your health care guide and help you to make informed medical decisions.  We take care of administration, so patients can focus on getting better, and doctors can focus on practicing medicine.

WPA looks after the details, so patients and their doctors can work to improve the patient’s quality of life, and lengthen patients’ lives.  We organize, coordinate, support, interpret, strategize, expedite, research, review, question, and appeal for you.  We strive to create a sense of comfort and security for our clients – a sense of  physical and emotional well-being.  We work on your behalf in dealing and negotiating with public and private insurance plans, including, but not limited to Medicare, Medicaid, and the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (O.H.I.P.)  WPA advocates for and guides you.

WPA is based in Detroit, Michigan in the United States, and Toronto, Ontario in Canada.  In addition to these two cities, W.P.A. provides international service, across borders and worldwide, including, but not limited to Manhattan (New York, NY and the tri-State area), South Florida (Dade, Broward, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Palm Beach, Miami), Phoenix (Scottsdale), Arizona, California, and Montreal, Quebec.

Scott J. Winnick, B.A., LL.B., J.D., an experienced Ontario licensed lawyer (Barrister & Solicitor) runs WPA.

PHILOSOPHY

Why is it necessary to provide you with our work/ play philosophy?  It’s simple.  We feel that knowing who we are is just as important as knowing what we can do for you.

We are straight talkers looking out for your best interests.

Our objectives are to:

• Be there for our clients – like family;

• Ease our client’s stress;

• Do everything we can to help;

• Do whatever is necessary to get our clients the information they need to facilitate informed decision making;

• Never give up.

We want to know that at the end of the day, we have made a difference in peoples’ lives.  If our actions can improve the quality of one’s life, or possibly save one’s life, then we’ve done our job.

Experiencing illness or the illness of a family member is hard enough.  No one should have to suffer the additional stress of dealing with the bureaucracy of the health care system, or suffer financial stress due to illness.

Winnick Patient Advocacy deals with all these matters for you.  We enable you to focus your energies on getting better.  We enable your physician to focus on your care, not on administration.

Winnick Patient Advocacy is very much value-driven.