Patient Advocate in Tubac
Tubac, Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Nurse advocacy for Tubac patients and families
Tubac is the southernmost community RN Patient Advocate of Tucson serves, and the furthest from the region's specialist care. It is a small village in Santa Cruz County with a substantial population of retirees and artists — people who chose it deliberately, and who are not inclined to move closer to a hospital just because managing appointments has become harder.
Distance is the defining factor. A specialist appointment in Tucson is not an errand; it is a day. That reality quietly reshapes care: visits get postponed, follow-up tests get skipped, and a symptom that would warrant a quick check-in somewhere else gets watched for a few more weeks instead. Meanwhile the coordination problem worsens, because the local providers and the Tucson specialists are far enough apart that information genuinely does not flow between them on its own.
Amy DuBois, RN, BCPA, makes that distance cost less. She obtains previous medical records and formulates one medical summary for all the physicians involved, facilitates communication between them so each is working from up-to-date information, and coordinates follow-up tests and appointments so a trip north accomplishes as much as possible rather than as little.
She also accompanies clients on those appointments. For someone driving up from Tubac, having a Registered Nurse in the room — one who already knows the history, asks the questions, and writes it all down afterward — is the difference between a long day that produced clarity and a long day that produced a referral to yet another appointment.
Amy meets Tubac clients at home and at local providers, and accompanies them to appointments and hospital stays in Tucson.
Questions from Tubac families
- Tubac is a long way from Tucson. Do you really come out here?
- Tubac is named in the service area and Amy travels to clients. Call 520-909-8203 to discuss your situation and how an engagement would work in practice.
- Can you make our trips to Tucson more productive?
- That is much of the value at this distance. Coordinating follow-up tests and appointments, arriving with the records already assembled, and making sure the plan is understood before you leave the room all reduce the number of trips that achieve nothing.
- What happens if there is a hospitalization in Tucson?
- Amy informs the hospital-based medical team of the health, medication and treatment histories, follows the progress of the stay, and assists the transition afterward — then passes what happened to the private physicians and other providers back home so nothing is lost in the handoff.
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Granted by the Patient Advocate Certification Board to Amy DuBois, the credential of Board Certified Patient Advocate. Certificate number on file. Date issued: .