Did you know you can programmatically navigate to a new page via code?  Inside your bean method, you can simply use the NavigationDispatchHelper class to do the work for you.

The invokePageNavigation method of NavigationDispatchHelper takes a String parameter that holds the value of the navigation rule to follow.

import oracle.adfnmc.util.NavigationDispatchHelper;

public void MyBeanMethod() {

/'/ Do stuff

NavigationDispatchHelper.invokePageNavigation("patients");

}