Next Move Care
Advocacy, education, organization, authorized communication support, and a written roadmap.
One steady point of organization
A clear advocacy layer around the care you already have
Next Move Care helps people understand decisions and coordinate questions without taking over the responsibilities of physicians, hospitals, agencies, facilities, insurers, attorneys, or families.
The CLEAR Path
Five questions guide every engagement
- C
Clarify
What is happening now?
- L
Listen
What matters to the person?
- E
Explain
What options need discussion?
- A
Align
Who needs to be involved?
- R
Recommend
What is the next practical move?
Who remains responsible
Coordination without blurred accountability
Treating team
Diagnosis, medical advice, orders, treatment, monitoring, and clinical decisions.
Outside providers
Their own licensed services, records, billing, availability, and outcomes.
Client or representative
Consent, choices, accurate information, and final decisions unless lawfully delegated.
How the models differ
Different services solve different parts of the care journey
No single model replaces the others. The useful question is which organization is responsible for which need—and where an independent advocate can help connect the conversation.
01
Next Move Care
- Purpose
- Independent, private-pay advocacy for a defined healthcare decision or transition
- Relationship
- Chosen directly by the patient, family, or authorized representative
- Strength
- Question preparation, meeting support, cross-setting organization, and a written next-move roadmap
- Limit
- Does not diagnose, prescribe, provide hands-on care, practice law, control another organization, or guarantee an outcome
02
Hospital case management
- Purpose
- Support safe transition planning within a hospital encounter
- Relationship
- Part of the hospital team and its discharge workflow
- Strength
- Hospital-based coordination, discharge needs, referrals, and communication with the treating team
- Limit
- Scope and follow-up are generally tied to the hospital episode and available hospital resources
03
Health-plan navigation
- Purpose
- Help members understand benefits, networks, authorizations, and plan processes
- Relationship
- Provided by or through the insurer or health plan
- Strength
- Plan-specific coverage information and internal escalation routes
- Limit
- Works within the plan’s benefits, contracts, rules, and available programs
04
Geriatric care management
- Purpose
- Assess and coordinate longer-term needs, often for older adults and families
- Relationship
- Usually hired privately for ongoing planning and oversight
- Strength
- Local resources, housing and care options, family coordination, and longitudinal support
- Limit
- Credentials, clinical scope, availability, and services vary by professional and organization
05
Home health
- Purpose
- Provide ordered skilled services in the home for eligible patients
- Relationship
- A licensed agency working under an authorized plan of care
- Strength
- Time-limited skilled nursing, therapy, or other covered home-health services when eligibility applies
- Limit
- Not a general-purpose advocate; eligibility, orders, coverage, visit frequency, and service area apply
06
Hospice
- Purpose
- Provide interdisciplinary comfort-focused care for eligible people with terminal illness
- Relationship
- A hospice team operating under an elected hospice plan of care
- Strength
- Symptom support, nursing, psychosocial and spiritual care, equipment, medications related to the terminal diagnosis, and family support
- Limit
- Eligibility and services are tied to hospice requirements and the hospice plan of care
Current public promise
Only what is available now
The website describes current advocacy services. Ideas for future clinical, home-care, delivery, membership, or charitable programs are not offered or marketed as available services.