Tara L Bailey
MPA, CMC, CSA, BCPA, CDP
Brevard Healthcare Navigation, LLC
Tara L Bailey
MPA, CMC, CSA, BCPA, CDP
Brevard Healthcare Navigation, LLC
Advocate Location
Melbourne , FL 32912
Specialty
Special Care & Aging
TeleAdvocacy Available
Paid Consultations Only
*Greater National Advocates Terms of Use Apply
How I Can Help
When healthcare, memory changes, medications, safety concerns, appointments, hospitalizations, living arrangements, and family responsibilities begin overlapping, it can be difficult to know what needs attention first—or who will make sure everything actually gets done.
Brevard Healthcare Navigation provides private-pay professional care management and patient advocacy for individuals and families facing complex or changing care needs. Our team includes experienced Care Managers and Registered Nurses who work together to assess needs, identify priorities, coordinate care and services, advocate for the client, and provide ongoing follow-through as circumstances change.
We are boots on the ground. When appropriate, we can attend medical appointments, communicate with healthcare providers, assist with hospital and rehabilitation transitions, address medication and safety concerns, coordinate community services and care providers, monitor changes in the home or care setting, and keep involved family members informed.
This can be especially valuable for adult children managing a parent's care from another city or state, overwhelmed spouses and family caregivers, and families who find themselves coordinating multiple providers and services without anyone looking at the whole picture.
Our role goes beyond providing a list of resources or a roadmap. When ongoing professional involvement is needed, BHN helps manage the moving pieces—assessing, coordinating, monitoring, advocating, and following through.
Our goal is to give each client a voice in their healthcare journey while helping families make informed decisions and regain greater balance in their own lives.
Brevard Healthcare Navigation provides private-pay professional care management and patient advocacy for individuals and families facing complex or changing care needs. Our team includes experienced Care Managers and Registered Nurses who work together to assess needs, identify priorities, coordinate care and services, advocate for the client, and provide ongoing follow-through as circumstances change.
We are boots on the ground. When appropriate, we can attend medical appointments, communicate with healthcare providers, assist with hospital and rehabilitation transitions, address medication and safety concerns, coordinate community services and care providers, monitor changes in the home or care setting, and keep involved family members informed.
This can be especially valuable for adult children managing a parent's care from another city or state, overwhelmed spouses and family caregivers, and families who find themselves coordinating multiple providers and services without anyone looking at the whole picture.
Our role goes beyond providing a list of resources or a roadmap. When ongoing professional involvement is needed, BHN helps manage the moving pieces—assessing, coordinating, monitoring, advocating, and following through.
Our goal is to give each client a voice in their healthcare journey while helping families make informed decisions and regain greater balance in their own lives.
Important Information About Me
- I offer TeleAdvocacy Service
- I am insured
- My geographical area of practice is Serving Brevard County individuals and families with comprehensive, private-pay Patient Advocacy and Professional Care Management.
Why I Became A Professional Health Care Advocate
Years ago, I found myself caring for my mother-in-law during the final years of her life while also raising my children and managing the responsibilities of my own family. Today, we commonly recognize this experience as being part of the “sandwich generation,” but at the time I simply knew that I was overwhelmed and trying to do the best I could for someone I loved.
Taking my mother-in-law to medical appointments could consume much of the day—helping her prepare, transferring her into the vehicle, getting to the appointment, meeting with the physician, managing medications, and eventually getting her safely home again. As her health declined and her needs became increasingly complex, I struggled to find help.
I vividly remember crying as I asked a nurse if she knew of any community resource that could help me navigate the mounting healthcare and caregiving issues we were facing. Neither she nor the physician knew where to direct me.
It was not until end-of-life decisions were being made and my mother-in-law was referred to hospice that an RN finally introduced me to resources that could have made an enormous difference during the years before. I remember thinking that families should not have to struggle for years before someone helps them understand what support is available and how to put the pieces together.
That experience changed the direction of my professional life.
I knew I wanted to help other individuals and families avoid feeling as lost and overwhelmed as I had. I pursued education, professional credentials, and specialized training in care management, patient advocacy, aging, dementia, and healthcare navigation, ultimately building Brevard Healthcare Navigation to provide the kind of professional support I once needed myself.
I continue to learn, build relationships throughout the healthcare and aging-services community, and seek better ways to help clients and families facing complicated healthcare and care decisions.
Patient advocacy and professional care management are deeply meaningful to me because I understand what it feels like to be the family member searching for answers. That experience remains at the heart of why I do this work today.
Taking my mother-in-law to medical appointments could consume much of the day—helping her prepare, transferring her into the vehicle, getting to the appointment, meeting with the physician, managing medications, and eventually getting her safely home again. As her health declined and her needs became increasingly complex, I struggled to find help.
I vividly remember crying as I asked a nurse if she knew of any community resource that could help me navigate the mounting healthcare and caregiving issues we were facing. Neither she nor the physician knew where to direct me.
It was not until end-of-life decisions were being made and my mother-in-law was referred to hospice that an RN finally introduced me to resources that could have made an enormous difference during the years before. I remember thinking that families should not have to struggle for years before someone helps them understand what support is available and how to put the pieces together.
That experience changed the direction of my professional life.
I knew I wanted to help other individuals and families avoid feeling as lost and overwhelmed as I had. I pursued education, professional credentials, and specialized training in care management, patient advocacy, aging, dementia, and healthcare navigation, ultimately building Brevard Healthcare Navigation to provide the kind of professional support I once needed myself.
I continue to learn, build relationships throughout the healthcare and aging-services community, and seek better ways to help clients and families facing complicated healthcare and care decisions.
Patient advocacy and professional care management are deeply meaningful to me because I understand what it feels like to be the family member searching for answers. That experience remains at the heart of why I do this work today.
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