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Help build Rerouted Health

Health is bigger than healthcare. So is our community.

Rerouted Health brings together people, knowledge, lived experience, professional expertise and useful resources, so that fewer people have to find their way alone.

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Rerouted Health is being built around a simple belief: better health does not come from one person, one profession, one treatment, or one system.

Health touches every part of life.

It includes the physical body, but also our mental and emotional well-being, our relationships, our communities, our sense of meaning, and the practical realities of navigating healthcare, work, money, caregiving and everyday life.

We want Rerouted Health to become a place where people can learn from one another, share useful resources, contribute what they know, and help someone else find their next route.

You do not have to be a healthcare professional to have something meaningful to contribute.

You may be a writer, designer, researcher, caregiver, therapist, physician, social worker, marketer, business owner, editor, community organizer, video creator, patient, family member — or simply someone with an experience that could help another person feel less lost.

Our view of whole-person health

Health is the whole person.

Physical

Medical care, prevention, movement, nutrition, sleep, recovery, symptoms, treatment and the body itself.

Mental

Stress, cognition, trauma, psychological well-being, learning and understanding what is happening to us.

Emotional

Grief, resilience, coping, self-awareness, identity and how we process difficult experiences.

Social

Family, friendships, caregiving, belonging, relationships, support systems and community.

Meaning & spiritual well-being

Purpose, values, reflection, faith or spiritual practices, meaning and the things that help a person feel grounded.

Practical life

Healthcare navigation, insurance, bills, work, finances, caregiving logistics, finding resources and knowing where to turn next.

Sometimes the next step is a doctor. Sometimes it is a therapist, a social worker, a support group, a financial resource, a better question, a conversation with family, or simply learning that another option exists.

Rerouted Health does not need to provide every service. Our role is often to help people understand what kind of help exists and where they might go next.

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Share your story

Share your story

Your experience may become someone else's map.

Rerouted Health is not only about professional expertise. Lived experience matters too.

This is not a testimonial about Rerouted Health or Amanda. We want stories about your own healthcare and life experience.

We are not looking for perfect stories. We are looking for useful, human ones.

Share your story
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Your experience may become someone else’s map.

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Please share only what you are comfortable sharing. Do not upload medical records, insurance cards, bills containing personal information, or other sensitive documents.

No diagnoses, policy or account numbers, dates of birth or treatment details are needed. A few honest sentences are enough.

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Stories might be about

  • Something you wish you had known earlier
  • A healthcare experience that changed how you approach your health
  • A question you learned to ask
  • A resource that helped you
  • What caregiving taught you
  • What navigating insurance or medical bills taught you
  • A mental-health or emotional-health lesson
  • Something that helped you feel more supported
  • What you learned while searching for the right practitioner
  • A complementary or holistic approach you explored
  • A difficult experience that taught you how the system works
  • Something you would tell someone going through the same thing today

Some stories may become

  • Anonymous community stories
  • First-person articles
  • Interviews
  • Short quotes
  • Social media features
  • Educational resources
  • Questions we research further
  • Inspiration for future Rerouted guides

We want a place where people can share what they have learned from navigating healthcare, illness, recovery, caregiving, mental health, relationships, insurance, medical bills, finding the right practitioner, advocating for themselves, supporting someone they love, or simply trying to feel well again.

Sharing a story does not mean Rerouted Health endorses every treatment, practitioner, product, diagnosis or medical conclusion mentioned in it. Personal experiences are identified as personal experiences, and health-related factual claims are still checked before anything is published.

You choose how you're credited — full name, first name only, or anonymous — and you can ask us to contact you before anything is published. Nothing with your name, image or identifying details is published without your explicit permission. Please don't send diagnoses, records, or account or policy numbers.

Contribute your skills

There are many ways to contribute.

Write & research

Help us turn complicated subjects into useful, understandable information.

  • Article writing
  • Research
  • Editing
  • Fact-checking
  • Source verification
  • Plain-language rewriting
  • SEO writing
  • Checklists and educational guides

Create

Help make health information easier to understand and easier to share.

  • Graphic design
  • Infographics
  • Canva templates
  • Social media graphics
  • Video editing
  • Short-form content
  • Article graphics
  • Educational downloads
  • Visual explainers

Community outreach & partnerships

Help us build relationships with people and organizations doing meaningful work.

  • Community outreach
  • Professional outreach
  • Partnership development
  • Podcast outreach
  • Nonprofit connections
  • Practitioner outreach
  • Community-health connections
  • University or professional-association outreach

Find resources

Help us discover the resources people often do not know exist — the start of a curated Rerouted resource directory.

  • Nonprofit programs
  • Financial-assistance programs
  • Support groups
  • Community services
  • Practitioner directories
  • Caregiver resources
  • Mental-health resources
  • Insurance and healthcare resources
  • Local and national organizations

Organize & support the community

Help make the community itself work.

  • Volunteer coordination
  • Project coordination
  • Editorial coordination
  • Community moderation
  • Event coordination
  • Contributor onboarding
  • Resource organization
  • Administrative support

Share what you know

Professionals can contribute without committing to an ongoing role.

  • Review an article
  • Answer a few common questions
  • Contribute an interview
  • Review educational material in your field
  • Recommend reputable resources
  • Explain your profession
  • Help us understand when someone should seek your kind of professional
  • Contribute to a guide
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Writing, research, design, outreach, finding resources, organizing — tell us what you’d like to do. Healthcare professionals contributing as experts: please use the Professional contributor form instead.

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Different skills belong here

You do not need a healthcare credential to help.

A strong health community needs more than clinicians. We also need writers, editors, researchers, designers, marketers, project managers, photographers, video editors, community organizers, business professionals, accessibility advocates, educators, technology specialists, caregivers and people with lived experience.

For general volunteer and creative roles, we care about your skills, reliability, curiosity and respect for the community. Credentials become important when someone presents themselves as a professional expert or reviews information within a regulated field.

Community contributors

People contributing skills, creativity, research, organization, community knowledge or lived experience. Healthcare credentials are not required unless the role specifically involves professional health expertise.

Writers, designers, editors, researchers, marketers, project coordinators, video editors, community organizers, resource researchers and people sharing lived experience.

Contribute your skills

Professional contributors

Credentialed professionals who contribute or review educational material within their area of expertise, and stay within the scope of their own credentials.

Clinicians, therapists, social workers, pharmacists, dietitians, public-health professionals, patient advocates, licensed integrative practitioners and other qualified specialists.

Contribute as a professional
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For credentialed or professionally experienced contributors who may review or contribute educational content within their area of expertise.

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How would you like to contribute? (required)

Choose all that fit.

Credentials — only where relevant to your profession

We don’t need a license number.

Online presence

Share the profile that best represents your work. A large following is not required.

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Important boundaries

What volunteers do not do

Rerouted Health volunteers and general contributors do not provide individual patients or community members with:

  • Medical diagnosis
  • Medical treatment
  • Medical advice
  • Legal advice
  • Individualized insurance determinations
  • Psychotherapy
  • Emergency services
  • Personalized clinical recommendations
  • Representation as a licensed professional when they are not one

Most volunteer work happens behind the scenes: education, research, resources, writing, outreach, design, community-building and operations.

General volunteers never have access to confidential client or patient information, and professional contributors stay within the scope of their own licensing, credentials and professional obligations.

Rerouted Health is an educational and navigation platform. It is not a substitute for medical, legal, mental-health, financial or other individualized professional advice.

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What you may gain

Belonging, learning and work that matters.

Bring what you know. Learn from people who know different things. Help us build something useful together.

  • Connection with people from different professions and backgrounds
  • Opportunities to learn from other contributors
  • Published contributor or author credit where appropriate
  • Portfolio experience
  • Professional networking
  • Access to useful educational resources
  • Opportunities to collaborate
  • Community discussions and future events
  • Exposure to healthcare-navigation education
  • The chance to help turn difficult experiences into useful information for others
  • References or letters of contribution where appropriate, after meaningful participation
  • Opportunities to take on larger contributor, ambassador, leadership or advisory roles as the community grows

Don't see your role?

Tell us what you're good at.

Rerouted Health is intentionally being built by people with different experiences, professions and skills.

If you believe in the mission but don't see your exact role listed here, tell us what you enjoy doing and what you are good at.

Maybe you are an accountant. Maybe you build websites. Maybe you teach. Maybe you know absolutely nothing about healthcare but are brilliant at design, storytelling, technology, research or operations.

If your skills can help people find better information, stronger support or a clearer next step, there may be a place for you here.

Tell us how you'd like to help
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Partner with Rerouted

Organizations can be part of the community too.

For organizations, practitioners, nonprofits, educators and other groups who might want to collaborate.

Being featured, interviewed or listed by Rerouted Health does not automatically mean Rerouted Health endorses every service, treatment, product or viewpoint of that person or organization. Any commercial relationship is disclosed — see Partners & disclosures.

Explore a partnership
  • Educational partnerships
  • Expert interviews
  • Resource sharing
  • Community-health projects
  • Content collaboration
  • Practitioner education
  • Referral-resource relationships
  • Workshops
  • Research or public-education projects
  • Community events
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Tell us about your organization and what you have in mind.

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Looking ahead

Help shape where Rerouted goes next.

As Rerouted Health grows, we plan to build a multidisciplinary advisory group representing different parts of whole-person health and healthcare navigation.

No one has been appointed yet; names will appear here only once someone has accepted the role.

  • Clinical medicine
  • Mental and emotional health
  • Integrative and complementary care
  • Patient advocacy
  • Community health
  • Social work
  • Research and evidence
  • Caregiving and lived experience
  • Ethics
  • Accessibility

You do not need to have every answer to help someone.

Sometimes the most useful thing we can give another person is a question we learned to ask, a resource we wish we had known about, a skill we happen to have, or a story that reminds them they are not the only person trying to figure this out.

Share what you know. Share what you have lived. Learn from someone else. Help someone find their next route.