Intensive Specialty Hospital

Speak Up About Your Care

Speak up

Speak up

Pay attention

Educate yourself

Educate yourself

Advocates (family members and friends) can help

Know about your new medicine

Know about your new medicine

Use a quality health care organization that

Participate in all decisions about your care

Participate in all decisions about your care

The goal of Speak Up™ is to help patients and their advocates become active in their care.

Speak Up™ materials are intended for the public and have been put into a simplified (i.e., easy-to-read) format to reach a wider audience. They are not meant to be comprehensive statements of standards interpretation or other accreditation requirements, nor are they intended to represent evidence-based clinical practices or clinical practice guidelines. Thus, care should be exercised in using the content of Speak Up™ materials. Speak Up™ materials are available to all health care organizations; their use does not indicate that an organization is accredited by The Joint Commission