Our Purpose
The Project for Advancing Healthcare Stewardship (PAHS) is dedicated to helping people become better stewards of the health care system and of their own health.
We facilitate public forums about health and health care stewardship. While our project was conceived before the current global pandemic emerged, COVID-19 has shined a bright light on and escalated many of the same systemic healthcare challenges that PAHS seeks to explore and address.
Entrenched healthcare problems exacerbated by COVID-19 include cost escalation, insurance frustration, treatment uncertainty, clinician burnout, and patient distrust. Careful stewardship of health and health care is needed in order to rebuild and maintain an efficient, effective, and sustainable system.
Our public forums incorporate narrative medicine and democratized inquiry to foster empowered story-making as a means to help people process not only the particular stress and grief related to the current pandemic, but also to recognize and communicate long-term about the care they want within the constraints of what is available and potentially effective, while providing tools and resources to help them do so.
Our community-driven focus is unique, engaging individuals first as active participants in the healthcare system, and second through their roles as providers or patients. We are dedicated to helping people recognize and communicate about the kind of healthcare they want, and we provide tools and resources to help people do this. We believe conversations about good health and healthcare stewardship should begin long before we arrive at the doctor's office and should be based on the best-available information. Navigating the health care system can be intimidating and confusing. Making decisions under pressure is difficult when evidence and outcomes for treatments are often uncertain. We all need better preparation for being the best possible stewards of our own health within a complex health care system. Together, we can enrich the conversation around health and health care.
Our forums incorporate narrative medicine and democratized inquiry to foster empowered storymaking as a means to help people process not only the particular stress and grief related to the current pandemic, but also to recognize and communicate long-term about the care they want within the constraints of what is available and potentially effective, while providing tools and resources to help them do so.
The Project for Advancing Healthcare Stewardship (PAHS) is dedicated to helping people become better stewards of the Our community-driven focus is unique, engaging individuals first as active participants in the healthcare system, and second through their roles as providers or patients. We are dedicated to helping people recognize and communicate about the kind of healthcare they want, and we provide tools and resources to help people do this. We believe conversations about good health and healthcare stewardship should begin long before we arrive at the doctor's office and should be based on the best-available information. Navigating the health care system can be intimidating and confusing. Making decisions under pressure is difficult when evidence and outcomes for treatments are often uncertain. We all need better preparation for being the best possible stewards of our own health within a complex health care system. Together, we can enrich the conversation around health and health care.
Our team incorporates perspectives from evidence-based practice, narrative medicine, behavioral health, sustainability, and community engagement.