2011
Betty Long, RN, MHA is named by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of their 2011 Women of Distinction Award Winners. She will be honored at a dinner on November 29th at the Philadelphia Downtown Sheraton.
Nurse Advocate Joanne Simone, RN, MBA, is named 2011 Patient Advocate of the Year Award at Dorland Health's People Awards at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Guardian Nurses president Betty Long began blogging on consumer healthcare topics. Her blog, Guarding Your Health, addresses advocacy, caregiving, elder care, hospitalizations and insurance.
Guardian Nurses Founder Betty Long was invited by Dr. Mehmet Oz to participate as an expert on the Sharecare website. Sharecare is an interactive social Q&A website created by Dr. Oz and Jeff Arnold. Leading physicians, nurses, hospitals, clinics, authors, healthcare companies and non-profits connect, interact and share their collective expertise encouraging consumers to ask, learn and act upon questions of health.
Guardian Nurses' founder and president, Betty Long, RN, appears on the nationally syndicated Dr. Oz show to share "The Three Questions You Must Ask Your Doctor."
Guardian Nurses renews their contract with Sheet Metal Workers Union Local 19.
2010
Guardian Nurses Celebrates Its Seventh Year!
Skanska USA partners with Guardian Nurses to offer healthcare advocacy services to their U.S. employees.
FirstCall Employee Assistance Program establishes partnership with GNHA to provide their clients with services.
2009
Teamsters Local 830 Health & Welfare Fund engages Guardian Nurses as clinical nurse advocates to work with members on a disease management project.
Guardian Nurses is certified as a Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) by the Women's Business Enterprise Council of PA-DE-sNJ (WBENC).
Guardian Nurses signs two-year contract with Delaware Valley Health Care Coalition, a labor coalition representing close to 200 labor unions and their members.
2008
Guardian Nurses Founder and President Betty Long, RN, MHA, receives national award sponsored by Glamour Magazine and TAG Heuer North America for her work in the community helping patients.
Plasterers' Union Local 8, affiliated with the International Association of the Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons, signs with Guardian Nurses for advocacy services for members.
Guardian Nurses is certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) by the Pennsylvania Department of General Services. Click here to view (PDF).
Betty Long, RN, MHA, Founder and President of Guardian Nurses, is nominated by Wharton SBDC for the annual Small Business Association Entrepreneur of the Year award.
2007
Guardian Nurses celebrates its fourth year anniversary by premiering new promotional video “Lighting Patients’ Way Through the Healthcare Maze.”
Bricklayers Allied Craftworkers Local 1 PA/DE signs three year contract with Guardian Nurses for advocacy services for their 1,500 members.
2006
Based on $1.6 million claims' savings in one year program, Law Enforcement Health Benefits (LEHB) extends partnership with Guardian Nurses Healthcare Advocates for another year.
Guardian Nurses Healthcare Advocates is recognized as one of Pennsylvania's most outstanding small businesses during Pennsylvania Small Business Centers (SBDC) 12th annual Client Exposition, We Mean Business.
2005
Law Enforcement Health Benefits (LEHB) representing 7,500 police offers and their families award Guardian Nurses Healthcare Advocates a pilot project to test the impact of clinical intervention on healthcare costs.
2004
Guardian Nurses Healthcare Advocates formally opens doors with a team of three nurses and ten clients.
2003
Betty Long RN, MHA, founds Guardian Nurses Healthcare Advocates.
