Meltem Randle
RN, AGACNP-BC
Lunaris Health PLLC
Meltem Randle
RN, AGACNP-BC
Lunaris Health PLLC
Advocate Location
Oak Park , IL 60304
Specialty
Medical Guidance
Other Services
Special Care & Aging
TeleAdvocacy Available
Offers FREE Initial Consultation
*Greater National Advocates Terms of Use Apply
How I Can Help
In the ICU, Hospital, or at Home
—When Something Doesn't Feel Right, I Help You Find Clarity
Let's Talk - Free 15 minute consultation.
If something about you or your loved one’s medical care does not make sense—or you are unsure how to raise concerns with your medical team—you do not have to figure it out alone.
With more than 20 years of ICU, hospital, and clinical experience, I understand how easily critical details can be overlooked when care involves multiple diagnoses, specialists, medications, hospitalizations, and care settings.
Having worked on the nursing side of care and now practicing in a provider role, I bring a unique clinical lens when I carefully review all of your medical information across specialists, testing, medications, and treatment plans. I look for missing steps or gaps in care that may be contributing to your concerns.
I help answer unanswered questions, identify what needs clarification, communicate with your providers and medical team, determine whether the right specialists are involved, review medication safety, and advocate for the highest-quality medical care available.
My goal is simple: to help you or your loved one receive coordinated, top-notch medical treatment and care at every stage.
I spent more than 20 years working within the medical system. Now, I work for you.
Free Consultation:
You do not need to know exactly what to ask. Simply tell me what is happening. During your free 15-minute consultation, we will identify your most urgent concern, discuss the support you need, and determine whether I am the right advocate for your situation.
—When Something Doesn't Feel Right, I Help You Find Clarity
Let's Talk - Free 15 minute consultation.
If something about you or your loved one’s medical care does not make sense—or you are unsure how to raise concerns with your medical team—you do not have to figure it out alone.
With more than 20 years of ICU, hospital, and clinical experience, I understand how easily critical details can be overlooked when care involves multiple diagnoses, specialists, medications, hospitalizations, and care settings.
Having worked on the nursing side of care and now practicing in a provider role, I bring a unique clinical lens when I carefully review all of your medical information across specialists, testing, medications, and treatment plans. I look for missing steps or gaps in care that may be contributing to your concerns.
I help answer unanswered questions, identify what needs clarification, communicate with your providers and medical team, determine whether the right specialists are involved, review medication safety, and advocate for the highest-quality medical care available.
My goal is simple: to help you or your loved one receive coordinated, top-notch medical treatment and care at every stage.
I spent more than 20 years working within the medical system. Now, I work for you.
Free Consultation:
You do not need to know exactly what to ask. Simply tell me what is happening. During your free 15-minute consultation, we will identify your most urgent concern, discuss the support you need, and determine whether I am the right advocate for your situation.
Important Information About Me
- I offer a FREE Initial Consultation
- I offer TeleAdvocacy Service
- I am insured
- My geographical area of practice is Chicago Based. Nationwide Support. Serving Chicago and surrounding suburbs, including Evanston, Naperville, Joliet, Schaumburg, and most of IL. Virtual advocacy and care-coordination services are available nationwide.
Why I Became A Professional Health Care Advocate
My 16-year-old daughter nearly died after hip surgery at a top-rated University hospital with a world-renowned surgeon.
Even with my critical-care experience—I remember that day in the hospital, it was the first day after her big hip surgery. My concerns were dismissed as overbearing. I watched her vital signs become increasingly unstable after she lost more than half of her blood volume in surgery. Twelve hours later, due to her condition deteriorating a rapid response was finally called. Only then were urgent laboratory tests and imaging performed, followed by emergency blood transfusions to stabilize her.
She survived—but that day broke me. It took what little faith I had left in the healthcare system.
As her mother, I had been searching for answers since she was a baby. Throughout her childhood, we saw specialist after specialist trying to understand and treat her persistent hip pain. For 16 years, her symptoms were repeatedly dismissed. She eventually developed tears in both hips that required surgery—the same surgery during which missed warning signs nearly cost her life.
If I had not been there—keeping her flat in bed and refusing routine activity and physical therapy while she was unstable—she could have suffered permanent injury or died.
Unfortunately, this was not our only experience. Years of choking and vomiting were eventually diagnosed as eosinophilic esophagitis at age 10. Symptoms repeatedly described as “executive dysfunction” were finally recognized as ADHD at age 15.
My own symptoms were also dismissed for much of my life, delaying diagnoses of ADHD, endometriosis, chronic anemia, and adenomyosis. Despite years of chronic pain and excessive bleeding, my concerns were repeatedly minimized until I ultimately chose to undergo a hysterectomy.
These experiences—both personally and through caring for critically ill patients—showed me how easily concerns can be overlooked and how many preventable complications can occur when patients and families do not have a clinically informed advocate by their side.
Even with my critical-care experience—I remember that day in the hospital, it was the first day after her big hip surgery. My concerns were dismissed as overbearing. I watched her vital signs become increasingly unstable after she lost more than half of her blood volume in surgery. Twelve hours later, due to her condition deteriorating a rapid response was finally called. Only then were urgent laboratory tests and imaging performed, followed by emergency blood transfusions to stabilize her.
She survived—but that day broke me. It took what little faith I had left in the healthcare system.
As her mother, I had been searching for answers since she was a baby. Throughout her childhood, we saw specialist after specialist trying to understand and treat her persistent hip pain. For 16 years, her symptoms were repeatedly dismissed. She eventually developed tears in both hips that required surgery—the same surgery during which missed warning signs nearly cost her life.
If I had not been there—keeping her flat in bed and refusing routine activity and physical therapy while she was unstable—she could have suffered permanent injury or died.
Unfortunately, this was not our only experience. Years of choking and vomiting were eventually diagnosed as eosinophilic esophagitis at age 10. Symptoms repeatedly described as “executive dysfunction” were finally recognized as ADHD at age 15.
My own symptoms were also dismissed for much of my life, delaying diagnoses of ADHD, endometriosis, chronic anemia, and adenomyosis. Despite years of chronic pain and excessive bleeding, my concerns were repeatedly minimized until I ultimately chose to undergo a hysterectomy.
These experiences—both personally and through caring for critically ill patients—showed me how easily concerns can be overlooked and how many preventable complications can occur when patients and families do not have a clinically informed advocate by their side.
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