Organizational Partners
Collaborative self-management support (CSMS) is health care that promotes partnerships among individuals with chronic conditions, their families, health care providers, and the communities in which they live and work. New Health Partnerships is very pleased to be collaborating with national health care and consumer organizations that share the vision that CSMS is part of an effective, compassionate, and efficient health care system. We will work with our Organizational Partners to convene stakeholders, gather ideas, and disseminate tools and success stories. Together we will work to promote CSMS. Our collective goal is to create effective meaningful partnerships for all.
New Health Partnerhips will work with its Organizational Partners to identify valuable tools, practices, and information that foster this approach and share them on this site. We will search for creative, convenient, and effective ways to share these resources with our partners' constituents and the public. We are grateful for the commitment of the following Organizational Partners.
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization that helps people 50+ have independence, choice and control in ways that are beneficial and affordable to them and society as a whole. AARP does not endorse candidates for public office or make contributions to either political campaigns or candidates. We produce AARP The Magazine, published bimonthly; AARP Bulletin, our monthly newspaper; AARP Segunda Juventud, our bimonthly magazine in Spanish and English; NRTA Live & Learn, our quarterly newsletter for 50+ educators; and our website, AARP.org. AARP Foundation is an affiliated charity that provides security, protection, and empowerment to older persons in need with support from thousands of volunteers, donors, and sponsors. We have staffed offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Founded in 1947, the American Academy of Family Physicians represents nearly 94,000 physicians and medical students nationwide. It is the only medical specialty society devoted solely to primary care. Nearly one in four of all office visits are made to family physicians. That is 215 million office visits each year - 48 million more than to the next medical specialty. Family medicine's cornerstone is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship focused on integrated care.
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) is the leading patient organization for people with asthma and allergies. AAFA provides practical information, community based services, and support through a national network of chapters and support groups. AAFA develops health education, organizes state and national advocacy efforts, and funds research to find better treatments and cures.
Since its founding in 1990, NCQA has been a central figure in driving improvement throughout the health care system, helping to elevate the issue of health care quality to the top of the national agenda. Its vision is to transform health care quality through measurement, transparency and accountability.
The National Family Caregivers Association educates, supports, empowers and speaks up for the more than 50 million Americans who care for loved ones with a chronic illness or disability or the frailties of old age. NFCA reaches across the boundaries of diagnoses, relationships and life stages to help transform family caregivers' lives by removing barriers to health and well being.
For more than 35 years, the National Partnership for Women & Families has promoted public policies and business practices that expand opportunities for women and strengthen our nation’s families. The National Partnership brings people together for action – because actions speak louder than words. The National Partnership has played a critical role in enacting landmark policy from prohibiting pregnancy discrimination to giving 60 million Americans family and medical leave. The National Partnership knows that when women do better, families do better, and our nation prospers. Today, the National Partnership promotes fairness in the workplace, access to quality and affordable health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family.
The mission of the National Quality Forum is to improve the quality of American healthcare by setting national priorities and goals for performance improvement, endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance, and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.
The Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts – That's the perfect metaphor for the Society of Behavioral Medicine, a multidisciplinary, non-profit organization founded in 1978. Each part, each discipline, can stand alone. But together - when nursing, psychology, medicine and public health form an interdisciplinary team - new perspectives emerge on human behavior, health and illness. SBM has created the premiere scientific forum for over 2,000 behavioral and biomedical researchers and clinicians to study the interactions of behavior, physiological and biochemical states, and morbidity and mortality. SBM provides the many disciplines represented with an interactive network for education and collaboration on common research, clinical and public policy concerns related to prevention, diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation, and health promotion. The Society of Behavioral Medicine, achieving Better Health Through Behavior Change.
The Society for General Internal Medicine is a 31-year-old, 3,000 member international organization of physicians and others who combine caring for patients with educating and/or doing research. Its mission is to improve patient care, education, and research in primary care and general internal medicine. SGIM actively seeks alliances with others -- societies or individuals -- with whom it can partner to improve the quality of patient care and medical education. It supports initiatives by the government and foundations that promote access to care, education of patients and trainees, constructive relationships between doctors and their patients, and medical research.