Even when you are in the room

You think the care is happening, and that it is right. You do not know.

Your person still does not look right. Or you are in that bed, and something feels off. Or you cannot get there to see.

The hospital, the nursing home, the home care — they say it is stable. Timesheet looks fine. The chart is checked off.

We watch for an early change

  • Pain level
  • Breathing
  • Airway clearance
  • Oxygen
  • Feeding

We look at whether it is actually happening.

One medicine by mouth at home. The same job later, through a trach — a tube in the neck — under a different name and brand.

If the earlier one is never stopped, both stay on the list.
Not even you will know.

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Our licensed healthcare professional — your Bodyguard — at your bedside, whose only job is watching out for you.

A Healthcare Bodyguard is not another nurse on the clock. They work only for you. They are calm in the room. They do not take over the care, and they do not get in its way. A record is kept of what actually happened — documented by a licensed healthcare professional who isn't on their payroll.

If that already sounds like your person, that is where a Bodyguard goes.

A licensed record, kept for you.

It is documented for you the day it happens, and kept for you even if you never need it.

A Bodyguard's record is a licensed record — documented as it happens, by a licensed healthcare professional, not for the floor. Start while it looks perfect. That is your baseline.

If later a doctor, an agency, or your lawyer needs to see how it was, it is already there. You can ask for it.

Request a Bodyguard
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How it works

Three steps. Then there is a professional in the room who watches out for you.

Step 1

Tell us the situation

A short text, the request form, or a call. Who, where, and what has you worried. We will tell you plainly if a Bodyguard fits.

Step 2

A Bodyguard takes the room

Our licensed Bodyguard, calm and in no one's way. They do not run the care. They watch it — only for you.

Step 3

The record is kept

What actually happened, documented as it happened. It is there for you to ask for — for the doctor, the agency, or your lawyer, if it ever comes to that.

Request a Bodyguard Text or call (630) 415-0222 — answered right away, day or night. No menu.

Serving Chicagoland

One number. Everywhere you need us.

(630) 415-0222

Text or call. Answered right away, day or night. No menu.

We provide advocacy inside hospitals, inpatient and outpatient, treatment centers, nursing homes, assisted living, memory care, behavioral health units, and mental health facilities across the region.

And more.

Cook · DuPage · Kane · Kendall · McHenry · Lake · Will · DeKalb

Towns we serve

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