Providing quality health care proxy services since 2008.
We are Social Work Advantage. We contract with health care facilities to provide health proxy services for patients unable to make health care decisions and have no one else to assist them in decision making.
Social Work Advantage Health Proxy Services may be contacted to make health care decisions, in the best interest of the patient, which may include decisions to withdraw/withhold life-prolonging procedures. Decisions to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging procedures will be reviewed by the facility's bioethics committee.
When to contact us
Contact us when it is discovered by the contracted hospital or hospice that the patient:
Lacks capacity to make health care decisions
Has no one legally authorized to assist in making health care decisions
There has been documentation of the above in the medical record
Email or call us with any questions or inquiries. Or, send us a referral to request our services.
“A licensed clinical social worker, pursuant to chapter 491, may serve as the health care proxy for a patient unable to make decisions for himself or herself and when there is no other legally authorized representative.”