Managing multiple medications from different doctors can feel overwhelming and dangerous. Medication mistakes are a leading cause of preventable harm, especially when doctors don’t know what other providers have prescribed. At Compassion Crossing, we serve as your healthcare journey project manager—providing critical medication oversight that improves quality of life and may help extend life by preventing dangerous drug interactions, reducing pill burden, and ensuring all your medications work together safely.

Your Medication Project Manager

When you see multiple doctors—like a heart doctor, diabetes doctor, and primary care doctor—each one prescribes medicines for their specialty. But here’s the problem: they often don’t know what the others have prescribed.

This creates serious risks:

• Dangerous interactions between medications from different doctors
• Duplicate medications that do the same thing
• Medicines that work against each other
• Dosages that are too high when combined

As your healthcare journey project manager, we review all your medications together—something your individual doctors rarely have time to do. This comprehensive coordination helps prevent complications that could lead to hospitalization and may even help extend your life by catching dangerous problems early.”

Why Medication Reviews Matter

Taking several medications at once can sometimes cause more harm than good. When different medicines interact with each other, they can create dangerous side effects that make you feel worse instead of better. A thorough medication review helps identify these problems before they become serious.

In one case, a person was taking three blood pressure medications. These caused such severe low blood pressure that it looked like the person was dying.

Our goal is simple: keep the medications that truly help you and safely remove or adjust the ones that might be causing harm.

What Happens During a Medication Review

We take time to carefully examine every medication you’re taking, including prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and supplements. Nothing is too small to review. Like a project manager who coordinates all the different parts of a complex project, we coordinate all your medications from all your doctors to make sure they work together safely.

During your review, we:

• Look at each medication and understand why you’re taking it
• Check for dangerous interactions between different medicines
• Identify medications that might be causing side effects like dizziness, confusion, or fatigue
• Find ways to simplify your routine without compromising your health
• Work with your doctors to make safe changes when needed

Another important case involved someone at high risk for dementia who was taking statins. Our review found that statins can increase the risk of cognitive decline, especially for people who are already vulnerable.”

Signs You Might Benefit from a Medication Review

Consider a medication review if you:

• See multiple doctors or specialists who don’t communicate with each other
• Want someone to attend doctor appointments with you to make sure nothing gets missed
• Need a healthcare project manager to coordinate all aspects of your medication safety
• Take two or more medications daily
• Feel confused, dizzy, or tired and don’t know why
• Have frequent falls or near-falls
• Notice new symptoms since starting a medication
• Take medications prescribed by different doctors who may not talk to each other
• Feel like your medication routine is too complicated to manage safely
• Wonder if all your medications are still necessary

How We Help Reduce Your Pill Burden

Reducing pill burden doesn’t mean stopping essential medications. Instead, we focus on:

Eliminating Unnecessary Medications

• Removing drugs that are no longer needed for your current health situation
• Identifying medications that duplicate what others are already doing
• Finding safer alternatives when possible

Simplifying Your Routine

• Combining medications when safe and appropriate
• Adjusting timing to make your schedule easier to manage
• Reducing the total number of pills you need to take each day

Preventing Dangerous Interactions

• Identifying combinations that could cause serious side effects
• Making sure all your medications work well together
• Ensuring your kidneys and liver can handle your current medication load

The Benefits You’ll Experience

When we serve as your medication project manager—coordinating care between all your doctors and attending appointments with you—we help prevent dangerous complications and may even help extend your life. After a thorough medication review, most people feel:

• Protected by having a healthcare project manager coordinate all their medications
• More confident knowing someone attends doctor visits to ensure all steps are completed
• Potentially living longer by preventing medication errors and dangerous interactions
• Less confused about what they’re taking and why
• More confident in managing their daily medication routine
• Safer knowing their medications won’t interact dangerously
• Better physically, as harmful side effects are eliminated
• Less overwhelmed by complicated medication schedules

Many people are surprised to learn that some of their symptoms—like dizziness, memory problems, or fatigue—are actually side effects from their medications, not signs of their underlying illness getting worse.

Our Approach to Medication Safety

We Attend Appointments and Coordinate Your Care

As your healthcare journey project manager, we don’t just review your medications once and leave you alone. We:

• Attend doctor appointments and hospital procedures with you to make sure all necessary steps are completed
• Coordinate communication between your different doctors and specialists
• Watch for early warning signs that medications might be causing problems
• Ensure lifestyle and dietary changes work together with your medications to improve your health
• Catch medication errors before they cause serious complications
• Help you make healthy choices that can slow disease progression and potentially extend your life

This hands-on coordination means you have someone actively managing all the moving parts of your healthcare journey—just like a project manager keeps all team members working together on a complex project.

We believe medication management should make your life better and not more complicated. Our approach focuses on:

Safety First

• Every change is made carefully with your safety as the top priority
• We work closely with your doctors to ensure all changes are appropriate
• We never recommend stopping medications without proper medical guidance

Your Comfort and Goals

• We listen to what matters most to you in terms of quality of life
• We respect your preferences about which medications you want to keep
• We make sure you understand every recommendation we make

Practical Solutions

• We help organize your remaining medications in ways that are easy to manage
• We provide clear instructions about any changes
• We make sure you feel confident about your new routine

Why Choose Compassion Crossing for Medication Review?

We combine nursing expertise with a compassionate understanding of how overwhelming medication management can feel. As your healthcare journey project manager, we actively coordinate all aspects of your care—not just review medications once and walk away. Unlike quick pharmacy consultations, we attend appointments with you, communicate with all your doctors, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks. This comprehensive approach helps improve your quality of life and may even help extend your life by preventing medication errors and dangerous complications.

Our experience includes:

• Years of hospice and palliative care nursing, where medication management is crucial
• Understanding how different illnesses and aging affect how medications work
• Knowledge of how medications interact with each other and with common health conditions
• Expertise in working with healthcare teams to make safe, appropriate changes

You Don’t Have to Feel Overwhelmed

Managing multiple medications shouldn’t make you feel anxious or confused. With the right guidance, your medication routine can become simpler, safer, and more effective at helping you feel your best. With a dedicated healthcare journey project manager coordinating your care, attending appointments with you, and ensuring all your doctors work together, you can feel confident that nothing important will be missed.

Whether you’re taking medications for chronic conditions, recovering from an illness, or just want to ensure everything you’re taking is still necessary, we’re here to help.

We offer sliding scale fees so families can get the support they need, no matter their budget. See our pricing options here.

Ready to Simplify Your Medications?

Schedule a free conversation with Nurse Peter to learn how a medication review can help you feel safer and more confident about your health.

You don’t have to manage complicated medications alone. We’re here to help you every step of the way.