Tara L Bailey

MPA, CMC, BCPA, CSA®, CDP
Brevard Healthcare Navigation, LLC
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Tara L Bailey

MPA, CMC, BCPA, CSA®, CDP
Brevard Healthcare Navigation, LLC
Advocate Location
Melbourne , FL 32912
Specialty
Special Care & Aging
TeleAdvocacy Available
Paid Consultations Only
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How I Can Help
I help individuals and families manage complex healthcare and changing care needs when there are too many moving pieces to coordinate alone.

Through Brevard Healthcare Navigation, I provide private-pay professional care management and patient advocacy throughout Brevard County, Florida. I work directly with clients, families, physicians, healthcare providers, rehabilitation facilities, home health providers, caregivers, and community services to help identify needs, coordinate care, advocate for the client, and ensure appropriate follow-through.

I can help when there are:

• Multiple physicians, specialists, or healthcare providers involved
• Medication concerns or a need for medication oversight and coordination
• Cognitive, functional, mobility, or safety changes
• Frequent hospitalizations or rehabilitation stays
• Questions about whether a discharge plan will work safely at home
• Caregiver needs or gaps in support
• Difficult decisions about home care, assisted living, or long-term care
• Family members trying to manage care from another city or state
• Concerns that no one is looking at the whole picture
• A need for ongoing professional monitoring, coordination, and advocacy

Services may include comprehensive assessment, medical appointment preparation and attendance, hospital and rehabilitation advocacy, discharge and transition planning, medication oversight and coordination, home and care-setting safety assessment, care-option research, provider and family communication, ongoing status visits, and professional care management.

My role goes beyond providing a list of resources. I help determine what needs attention, coordinate the people and services involved, monitor whether plans are being carried out, and respond as circumstances change.

For families who cannot always be present, Brevard Healthcare Navigation provides local, boots-on-the-ground professional support and continued follow-through.
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
My path into patient advocacy and professional care management began with my own family.

Years ago, while raising two teenagers, completing my undergraduate degree, and helping care for my mother-in-law as her health declined, I experienced firsthand how difficult it could be to get the healthcare system to recognize what our family was seeing at home.

As her needs increased, I repeatedly sought help and often felt that no one was looking at the whole picture. There were medical concerns, changing care needs, safety issues, family responsibilities, and difficult decisions that did not fit neatly within a single appointment or provider relationship.

What was missing was someone who could step back, understand how all of those pieces were connected, ask the right questions, and help make sure the necessary follow-through actually happened.

That experience stayed with me and ultimately helped shape Brevard Healthcare Navigation.

Today, I work with individuals and families who often find themselves in a similar position—trying to manage multiple physicians, medications, cognitive or functional changes, hospitalizations, rehabilitation, caregiver needs, safety concerns, and decisions about what comes next.

My goal is to help ensure that the client has a voice in the process and that families have knowledgeable professional support when healthcare and care needs become too complicated to manage alone.

That personal experience remains at the heart of why I do this work.
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Formal Education
University Central Florida, MPA
University Central Florida BS
Additional Skills
I bring a combination of professional care management, patient advocacy, aging-services expertise, and hands-on experience managing complex healthcare situations.

My credentials include MPA, Care Manager Certified (CMC), Board Certified Patient Advocate (BCPA), Certified Senior Advisor® (CSA®), and Certified Dementia Practitioner (CDP). I am also a MoCA Certified Rater.

Through Brevard Healthcare Navigation, I lead a team of experienced Care Managers and Registered Nurse Care Managers serving individuals and families throughout Brevard County, Florida.

My work is especially focused on situations involving multiple providers, hospitalizations, rehabilitation stays, medication concerns, cognitive or functional changes, safety risks, caregiver needs, long-term care planning, and family members coordinating care from a distance.

A key strength of my practice is looking at the whole situation rather than addressing one isolated concern. I help identify priorities and gaps, coordinate the appropriate providers and services, monitor whether recommendations are actually carried out, and adjust the plan as circumstances change.

BHN also provides local, boots-on-the-ground support for families who cannot always be present for appointments, facility visits, discharges, or changes in condition.

My role is not simply to provide resources. When ongoing professional care management is needed, I remain involved—coordinating, advocating, communicating, monitoring, and helping the client and family move forward.
Professional Affiliations
Care Manager Certified
Board Certified Patient Advocate
Certified Senior Advisor®
Certified Dementia Practitioner
MoCA Certified Tester (Montreal Cognition Testing)

Associations:
Aging Life Care Association - FL Chapter, Former Board of Directors
Greater National Advocates
Greater Southeast Advocates
National Academy of Certified Care Managers
National Council Certified Dementia Practitioners
Patient Advocate Certification Board -
Former Board of Directors
Society of Certified Senior Advisors - National Board of Directors
Brevard Alzheimer's Foundation - Board of Directors