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The Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium (IHPC) is a broad coalition of clinicians, patients, healthcare educators and organizations committed to public policy that ensures all Americans access to safe, high quality, health care including the full range of qualified conventional, complementary and alternative healthcare professionals. Integrated Health Care describes a coordinated system in which healthcare professionals are educated about one another’s work and collaborate with one another, and with their patients, to achieve optimal well-being for the patient.
Read more about Integrated Health Care and Integrated Policy
Read our mission, who we serve, and what we believe
Meet the IHPC team
There has been so much misinformation about this bill we thought we should make it available for those of you who want
to read it all.
For those of you who want to just look at some of the key provisions for our community, a summary of IHPC highlighted
provisions that we, and you, and others, worked hard to get into the bill is also available.
There is more in the bill that will be important to us, and we will be explaining it to you in the coming months. But
right now we are busy because Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services are heading into what is called
Rulemaking. This is where they take the language of a bill including sometimes vague language and decide how it is
going to be implemented. So there is no time to rest on our laurels we are busy making the most of the provisions we
all got into the bill. Follow us on our new Twitter page as we
meet with legislators, their staff and DHHS personnel.
We will be polling you soon to learn what your priorities are for continued health care reform. If you are not already
part of our Online Action Network please sign up now
so that your views will be included.
View the bill, as signed (this is a .pdf file)
View IHPC highlights (this is a .doc file)
View the folks on our Federal Policy Committee
TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 2009
1. Creation of first Online Action Network for CAM/IHC patients and providers which sent thousands of messages to legislators, Speaker Pelosi, President Obama, HELP Committee, Peter Orzag and the Congressional Budget Office, and other strategic targets
2. Staff expansion to support growing online action- IHPC Hires Claire Howard, a saavy and strategic Online Organizer
3. IHPC formally submitted testimony to the HELP Committee for its February 2009 hearing on broadening the definition of 'health care workforce' to include CAM/IHC practitioners. Thank you Senator Sanders and the HELP Committee for a unanimous approval
4. IHPC worked with the Samueli Institute to create the Wellness Initiative for the Nation -- a sentence about what this is and that key elements of this document strongly influenced the House and Senate healthcare reform bills
5. Janet Kahn, PhD and Executive Director presented at the prestigious IOM Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public, the
Stakeholder Symposium on the Evidentiary Framework for Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CIM), Integrated Health Care Policy: Building the Road>, was a panel
member at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City, and was invited to provide input on the 3rd Five-year Strategic Plan, of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
GOALS IN 2010
1. To strategically grow our Partners For Health Program
2. To identify a champion on the Hill for the creation of an Office of Integrated Health Care Policy that will be staffed and charged with scoring all domestic policy initiatives in terms of their effect on the health of the nation
3. Passage of the expanded definition of the health care workforce
4. Passage of non-discrimination legislation that ensures that CAM providers and CAM educational institutions can receive opportunities that are now available to conventional health care providers (e.g. loan repayment programs) and allopathic medical schools (e.g. capital support for labs, research training programs, etc.)
5. Staff expansion to support IHPC's expanded role on the hill and on the web
IHPC's Partners for Health program is made up of non-profit educational and advocacy organizations across the CAM / conventional spectrum, working together toward our shared goals.
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