Our Approach

Healthcare Navigation that Focuses on Connection, Care and Listening

Are you having a hard time getting the answers you want from the traditional healthcare system? Is it hard navigating care for your loved one? At Empowered Endings, we raise the bar for palliative and end of life care by offering the seven pillars of care to free you from the restrictions of the current healthcare system and ensure everyone feels heard, held, and whole during the final stages of life.

Our Medical Group offers a comprehensive and customizable suite of services to serve your loved one’s physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual wellbeing. We emphasize robust planning, family support, and professional collaboration as crucial elements. Our approach prioritizes connection, care, and listening. By partnering with you, we learn what’s important and co-create a flexible plan that centers around your needs.

The Empowered Endings 7 Pillars of Care

1) Personal doctor-patient relationships: an engaged physician offering intensive, personalized, trauma-preventative, culturally-competent care and counsel;

2) Guidance and companionship with doulas: emotional, spiritual, and grief support from end of life, grief and dementia doulas throughout the final chapters and beyond;

3) Personalized 24/7 support for families: a team of experts answering the pressing questions that families have as they navigating the journey alongside their loved ones;

4) Collaboration with care partners: communication with healthcare professionals, care planners and managers, holistic practitioners, and doulas to ensure comprehensive care;

5) Enhancing quality-of-life with therapies: access to traditional, alternative and holistic therapies variably available in the insurance-based model;

6) Specialized end-of-life option support: unique expertise educating, advocating and providing care for legal end of life options, including Medical Aid in Dying and Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking;

7) Robust, proactive end-of-life planning: ensuring that those who wish to design a gentle and dignified death have the information, resources, and support to do so.

Complimentary Consultations

You can request a free consultation with an Empowered Endings provider at any time. To do so, complete a contact form here requesting a consultation. For purposes of healthcare privacy, please don’t share any personal health information in the form; we can discuss those topics during your consultation. You can also call us at (858) 925-7554.

During your consultation, you can talk about your circumstances and wishes. We’ll tell you more about our model of care. Together we’ll determine if Empowered Endings is a good fit for you. If so, we’ll schedule a time for an initial visit. If not, we’ll try to help identify useful resources that would be a good fit for your needs.

Empowered Endings is a private pay model. We accept payment from our clients in the form of checks, ACH debits, and credit cards. We’re unable to accept Medicare, MediCal, or private insurance payments. This payment model allows us to deliver the highest level of expert care that is tailored exactly to the needs and wishes of our patients and their loved ones. We also work on a sliding scale, so we’re able to provide support and care for people without the ability to pay the standard fees.