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SLC.edu / Graduate Studies / Graduate Programs / Health Advocacy / Links and Resources / Advocacy Organizations

Application Deadline

Applications to the Health Advocacy program are accepted on a rolling basis.

Advocacy Organizations

  • Broad-based

  • American Health Care Association

    A federation of state health organizations, together representing nearly 12,000 non-profit and for-profit health care providers.

  • American Red Cross

    Providing community service in the form of education and assisting in some of the most tragic disasters in history

  • Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.

    Promoting the delivery of high quality health care services to low income populations and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities

  • Center for Medicare Advocacy

    Provides education, advocacy, and legal assistance to help elders and people with disabilities obtain necessary healthcare.

  • Center for Patient Advocacy

    At the forefront of the battle to ensure that patients have timely access to the highest quality health care in the world.

  • Compassionate Passages Inc.

    Compassionate Passages, Inc. is a national non-profit organization founded by Beth Seyda and Ann Fitzsimons. The death of Beth's son, Dylan, and Ann's niece, Riley, inspired them to combine their personal and professional experiences to support those who care for ill and dying children.

  • Families USA

    A national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health and long-term care for all Americans.

  • HARP (Health Administration Responsibility Project)

    A resource for patients, doctors, and attorneys seeking to establish the liability of HMOs, Managed Health Care Organizations, and Nursing Facilities for the consequences of their decisions.

  • Health Grades, Inc.

  • Health Privacy Project- Consumer Coalition

    A diverse network of patient, disability and consumer advocacy organizations actively engaged in the national and local debate on health privacy.

  • Health Systems Change: Realizing Patient Potential

    Information technologies that support better medical decisions and free up health care participants for the human work of wellness and healing.

  • Healthcare Users Group

    H.U.G.TM will inform on how to care for one's health and will inform on the various mechanisms of rationing and denial of care currently in use by the organized systems of ""sickness care"" delivery, in the United States of America.

  • http://www.apiahf.org/

    Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum -- a national advocacy organization dedicated to promoting policy, program, and research efforts for the improvement of health status of all Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

  • Immunization Action Coalition

    A 501(c)3 nonprofit organization devoted to boosting immunization rates and preventing disease.

  • Institute for Public Strategies (IPS)

    Provides leadership and strategies which support changes in public and private policy & community standards and norms.

  • Intermountain Health Care

    A nonprofit organization with no investors and a commitment is to quality, innovation and clinical excellence.

  • National Association of Health Data Organizations

    A not-for-profit national membership organization dedicated to improving health care through the collection, analysis, dissemination, public availability, and use of health data.

  • National Coalition for the Homeless

    Our mission is to end homelessness. We focus our work in the following 4 areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice, and civil rights.

  • National Committee for Quality Assurance (HMOs)

    The premier source for information about the quality of the nation's managed care plans.

  • National Consumers League

    A private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues.

  • National Health Care for the Homeless Council

    A membership organization of health care providers working with homeless people across the United States.

  • National Partnership for Women & Families

    ""The National Partnership for Women & Families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses public education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family.""

  • National Patient Air Transport Helpline

    Provides a variety of services to those seeking a way to travel long-distances for specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis and treatment.

  • P.U.L.S.E. (Persons United Limiting Substandards and Errors in Health Care)

    A nonprofit organization for the survivors and victims of medical errors, adverse events and substandard health care.

  • Patient Advocate Foundation

    Seeks to safeguard patients through effective mediation assuring access to care, maintenance of employment and preservation of their financial stability.

  • Planned Parenthood Federation of America

    The world's largest and most trusted voluntary reproductive health care organization.

  • Public Citizen Health Research Group

    Uses research and public education to promote system-wide changes in health care policy.

  • Quackwatch Home Page

    Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions.

  • Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy

    Leading the advancement of healthcare consumer advocacy by supporting the role of professionals who represent and advocate for consumers across the healthcare continuum.

  • The Center for Patient Partnerships

    ""The Center for Patient Partnerships is a national resource for strengthening the consumer perspective in health care and building more effective partnerships among patients, providers, and other stakeholders. We advocate change in health care practice and systems, so care is more patient-centered and consumer driven. We are committed to empowering patients as equal partners with health care providers."

  • The March of Dimes

    Researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health: prematurity, birth defects, low birthweight.

  • United Way of America

    Working to to improve people's lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities.

  • Well Spouse Foundation

    A national, not for profit membership organization which gives support to wives, husbands, and partners of the chronically ill and/or disabled.

  • Health Insurance

  • Aetna InteliHealth, Inc.

  • Benemax

    A benefit management company in which ""employees become true health care consumers and employers develop a strengthened commitment to their employees' health.""

  • Business for Social Responsibility

    ""BSR provides information, tools, training and advisory services to make corporate social responsibility an integral part of business operations and strategies.""

  • Work & Family Connection

    Offers surveys, listings of child care providers, resource and referral organizations, work/life consultants and elder care providers.

  • Hospice and End of Life

  • Crossing the Creek

    A Practical Guide to Understanding Death and the Process of Dying

  • DeathNet

    An international archive specializing in all aspects of death and dying - with a sincere respect for every point of view.

  • Growth House, Inc.

    Your international gateway to resources for life-threatening illness and end of life care.

  • National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

    The largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States.

  • Partnership for Caring

    A national nonprofit organization that partners individuals and organizations in a powerful collaboration to improve how people die in our society.

  • The Sanctuary for the Dying

    Sanctuary for the Dying is a nonprofit organization that provides a network of compassionate end-of-life services for the most vulnerable in Montgomery County, Maryland.

  • U.S. Living Will Registry

    Electronically stores advance directives and makes them available directly to health care providers

  • Mental Illness

  • Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

    Legal advocacy for the civil rights and human dignity of people with mental disabilities.

  • CHOICE (peer advocacy)

    Westchestcher County's First Consumer-Run Agency.

  • Justice In Mental Health

    A non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization in Lansing, Michigan, was founded in 1980 by individuals who are, or have been, consumers of the public and/or private mental health system.

  • M-Power's Mental Health Advocacy

    A member run organization of mental health consumers and current and former psychiatric patients.

  • Mental Health Consumer Concerns

    A non-profit organization founded in 1976 by and for former and present consumers of the mental health system.

  • Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee

    Appointed by the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, consists of fourteen judges and lawyers who are knowledgeable and experienced in mental health law.

  • Mental Help Net

    A web site on the topic of mental health as a free service to the worldwide mental health community of professionals and laypeople.

  • National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

    A nonprofit advocacy organization of friends of people with severe mental illnesses.

  • National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy

    Exists to expose human rights violations are occurring on a regular basis in America's mental institutions.

  • National Empowerment Center

    This website is filled with practical information that will help you recover if you have been labeled with a mental illness.

  • National Mental Health Association

    The country's oldest and largest nonprofit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness.

  • Suite101.com

    Aims to educate the general public about mental health issues, advocacy, and patient rights.

  • Support Coalition

    Uniting groups in a cooperative spirit, celebrating empowering emotional support, and launching human rights campaigns that activate a wide diversity of the public.

  • Programs Providers and Services

  • Carecounsel

    Healthcare Assistance Program answers your concerns through expert benefits advocacy and education.

  • International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

    From website: ""The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans is the largest educational association serving the employee benefits and compensation industry.""

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