On this episode of Close to Home, host Maureen Schwab welcomes Teri Frykenberg, owner and founder of Nurse Advocate Entrepreneur, which works to empower nurses and healthcare professionals to step beyond the hospital walls, into careers that honor their experience and bring real change to patients’ lives. With her 39 years experience as an ICU nurse they speak on the current failings of the for-profit US healthcare system, from bloated costs and administrative beaurocracy, to overworked healthcare workers leading to burnout, to corporate profiteering prioritizing reckless corner-cutting that has nothing to do with ensuring the best treatment of patients or the wellbeing of frontline workers.
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Posted November 4th 2025 8:56pm.