PINK Magazine - Vol. 3 February 2014

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Changing Changing fear fear INTO INTO HOPE HOPE Introducing Adele Kulyk, Saskatchewan`s Health Navigator.

With our aging baby boomer, growing population, people living longer, and the rise in incidence of obesity and cancer, two leading causes of death in Canada today, Canada’s model healthcare is itself in critical condition. Resources just can’t keep up with demand, and people in non-critical conditions are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Most of us have experienced delays receiving treatment, or have spent weeks or months waiting for a specialist appointment, only to be referred yet again.

Adele Kulyk, CEO, Global Healthcare Connections Inc.

Canada’s healthcare system is the envy of nations around the world. Urgent and critical care is first rate, but growing wait times and access to advancements in treatment for many health conditions have stretched from inconvenient to downright intolerable.

You deserve the best treatment regardless of these limitations and, in our experience, no one would agree more than your medical team. Yet, it is the reality of our financially taxed health system and overworked medical staff, coupled with advancements in medicine that move at a rapid pace, that your Physician may not know about the most current options for your situation. Then, due to financial restraints, or standard of care protocol, our Doctors may be limited

in what they can offer you, and how soon you are treated. We want to tell you about a new health connection… one that was developed from the heart, right here in Saskatchewan. Global Healthcare Connections Inc., Canada’s new and Saskatchewan’s only comprehensive health navigation company. They provide people just like you, with the information, tools and support you may need to gain access to medical services. Adele Kulyk is the CEO and managing director. She’s seen firsthand as many people have, the toohigh price of too little treatment, much too late. As she grieved the loss of a colleague whose stagefour cancer diagnosis robbed his wife and three children of a loving father, Kulyk made a radical decision. She couldn’t change her friend’s fate, but she could leverage her two decades of tourism, business, research and communications expertise to change the fate of many, many others.


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