Protecting Healthcare Quality, Access and Choice of Providers
Why Join a Coalition?
What is a Coalition?
A coalition is an alliance of organizations that come together
to address a specific problem and reach common goals.
Coalitions Are Effective
A coalition can be an effective and efficient way of achieving
a coordinated approach. Advantages include:
• Strength in numbers
• Increased credibility
• Professional networking opportunities
• Increased knowledge sharing
• Expanded media reach
• Improved access to legislators and regulators
“If everyone is moving
forward together, then
success takes care of itself.”
– Henry Ford
Coalitions Enhance Engagement
Coalitions provide a helpful forum for organizations to stay engaged and informed about the scope of practice
issues that affect patients’ access to the healthcare services you deliver. By sharing information about issues,
barriers and goals among professionals who face similar challenges in your state, you can win on more fronts
than a single organization working alone, particularly when dealing with complex issues.
Coalitions Enable Resource Sharing and Increase Sphere of Influence
By identifying common interests and goals, coalition members have more power to broadly broadcast
important messages and reach consumer and policymaker audiences using tools like newsletters, public
service announcements, websites and media interviews. This reach can strengthen the profile of the issue and
accelerate the process of achieving goals.
Why Join the Coalition for Patients’ Rights?
The Coalition for Patients’ RightsTM Supports Patient Choice
The demands on our healthcare system are simply too great for healthcare professionals to continue
fighting the same old “turf wars” over authority to practice. All healthcare providers must work together to
the full extent of their education and training to meet the growing need for quality care and ensure best
outcomes for all.
The Coalition for Patients’ Rights is working to ensure that the American healthcare system’s growing and
increasingly diverse needs are met, and that all patients have access to the healthcare professional of their
choice. The Coalition was formed in 2006 and consists of more than 35 organizations representing a variety of
licensed healthcare professionals.
www.patientsrightscoalition.org
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www.facebook.com/coalitionforpatientsrights
The Coalition’s National Members
The Coalition for Patients’ Rights
Proactively Addresses Scope of
Practice Issues
The Coalition for Patients’ Rights enables a
coordinated, proactive approach to addressing
scope of practice issues for state/regional
organizations, branches and representatives of
the national CPR organizations. The coalition
facilitates:
• Networking and information sharing at
the federal and state levels between
CPR organizations
• Creation of state-based CPR coalitions
that reflect national membership
• Development and sharing of resources
on federal and state scope of practice
issues
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American Academy of Chiropractic Physicians (AACP)
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)
American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental
Medicine (AAAOM)
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACNColleges)
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACNCritical Care)
American Association of Naturopathic Physicians
(AANP)
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA)
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
(AAMFT)
American Chiropractic Association (ACA)
American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS)
American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP)
American Congress of Electroneuromyography (ACE)
American Nurses Association (ANA)
American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)
American Physical Therapy Association (APTA)
American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA)
American Psychological Association Practice
Organization (APAPO)
American Speech-Language Hearing Association
(ASHA)
Association of Nurses In AIDS Care (ANAC)
Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN)
Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions
(ASAHP)
Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal
Nurses (AWHONN)
Emergency Nurses Association (ENA)
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA)
National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists
(NACNS)
National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s
Health (NPWH)
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
(NAPNAP)
National Board for Certification of Hospice and Palliative
Nurses (NBCHPN)
National League for Nursing (NLN)
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties
(NONPF)
Oncology Nursing Society (ONS)
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Alabama Association of Nurse Anesthetists
Florida Association of Nurse Anesthetists
Massachusetts Association of Nurse Anesthetists
Michigan Association of Nurse Anesthetists
Minnesota Association of Nurse Anesthetists
North Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetists
Oklahoma Nurses Association
South Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetists
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CPR facilitates information sharing among
members, hosts quarterly meetings, offers
helpful toolkits to support communication with
fellow professionals, policymakers and
regulators and consumers, and supports
advocacy and outreach through our public
relations campaign.
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Want to Leverage the Power of
Coalitions to Help Meet Your
Challenges?
CPR has developed a virtual training session on
how to build state-level coalitions that will have
an impact. Some of the topics covered in this
webinar include background information on
CPR, the role a coalition can play in addressing
scope of practice issues on the state level and
an overview of tools that are available to
support coalition development in your state.
Learn more about coalition building by watching
the training session at:
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http://patientsrightscoalition.wistia.com/m/7E12EB.
Find the Coalition for Patients’ Rights
online at:
www.patientsrightscoalition.org
Find us on Facebook at:
www.facebook.com/coalitionforpatientsrights
www.patientsrightscoalition.org
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The Coalition’s State Affiliates
www.facebook.com/coalitionforpatientsrights