Coalition for Patient Rights

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Providing protection, one patient at a time

IPA Mission Statement:

Integrative Providers Association is a nonprofit 501(c) organization dedicated to advancing the societal benefits of Integrative Medicine in the established healthcare, legislative and socioeconomic systems that currently serve the greater population of public health globally focusing on discovering, educating, uniting and empowering providers together while providing integrative wholeness and inclusion for the betterment of tomorrow.

Everyone becomes a “patient” at some point and time in their life, experiencing disparity when they should be experiencing empathy, compassion or support. When that moment comes, everyone deserves to have a voice and a choice encased in dignity and compassion. Especially when one is too busy caring for themselves or family and can’t tell if their doctors are actually on their side advocating for them and their needs.

These consequential disparities typically decimate or erase generational wealth, and economic advancements that took generations to fully develop. As such, having professional advocates on our side that one can lean on for guidance and resources, or a Patients’ Bill of Rights, to fully protect patients, is an essential step to righting wrongs of the “profitization” of modern healthcare and wellness. Regardless if one is seeking emergency care, or wellness optimization services, restoring the right of service to “We The People” is a critical first step to our success as a society and should be focused on first and foremost. Ultimately, CPR is here to take charge of patient rights!

The Coalition for Patient Rights (CPR), the national voice for patients’ goal is to improve the health and healthcare of our nation. The CPR’s prime objectives are:

1. Bring about regulatory change at State and Federal level designed to improve and increase access to high quality healthcare for all.

2. Highlight the inadequacies and failures of the current healthcare system and the restricted choice of treatments imposed on patients.

3. Educate people about the treatments they are given and highlight the hidden components in medicines and how they can impact the body.

4. Improve the environment we live in by focusing on the need to provide clean

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to reform is urgently needed if our health system is ever to provide world class healthcare to our people. We will be mobilizing our friends, supporters, and affiliates across the country to make this a rallying call as we move towards the next presidential election.

unpolluted water and air to keep people healthy.

5. Safeguard the use of new technologies to ensure the use of healthcare technology is safe, accountable, and used for the benefit of patients.

In recent years numerous polls have shown the majority of Americans are dissatisfied with our healthcare system. This is not surprising when the system has evolved away from its primary purpose of serving patients to serving the medical industry and insurance companies. While they are doing well, patients are suffering both medically and financially.

Health costs are a contributor to the majority of personal bankruptcies in our country. Patients are being kept in the dark about the medication they take and the potential long-term impact on their health. Increasingly, doctors' preferred treatment for their patients is being overruled by the demands of insurance companies. The level of air and water pollution is increasing at an alarming rate putting all our people’s health at risk. Meanwhile, moves to improve our broken system at state and federal levels are bogged down by partisan wrangling and excessive lobbying by vested interests.

CPR believes that a non-bipartisan approach

During the 82nd Session (2023), Compassion Center and CPR are championing AB411: Ryan's Law: The Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis for the Terminally ill. This bill will require certain medical facilities to allow registered medical cannabis patients to engage in the medical use of cannabis at the medical facility during end of life. This allows patients a continuum of care to their treatment option of choice and allows patients to die with dignity and compassion. What hospital would deny a patient of this right?

To read the bill visit: https://www.leg.state. nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023/Bill/10368/ Text

To Submit Public Opinion for AB411 here: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/ REL/82nd2023/Bill/10368/Opinions

CPR needs your help! Please comment on AB411 online and email the Nevada Assembly Judiciary Committee to Pass and Support this bill on behalf of terminally ill patients in Nevada. The NV Assembly needs to hear from constituents and CPR Patients. That's you!

Come join the CPR and its national movement to provide change for The People. Your voice matters.

For more information visit: www. CoalitionforPatientRights.org

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