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GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality (GLMA) is an association of LGBTQ+ and allied health professionals in the United States. Its members include interdisciplinary health professionals, such as physicians, nurses, physician associates, behavioral health specialists, researchers and academics, and their supporters.
Healthcare reform advocacy groups in the United States are non-profit organizations in the US who have as one of their primary goals healthcare reform in the United States. These notable organizations address issues such as universal healthcare , national health insurance , and single-payer healthcare .
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a 501(c)(6) professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing. It started in 1896 as the Nurses Associated Alumnae and was renamed the American Nurses Association in 1911. [3] It is based in Silver Spring, Maryland [4] and Jennifer Mensik Kennedy [2] is the current president.
Global LGBTQI+ refugee support and advocacy: Active Rainbow Sash: 1998: Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) 1979: Active Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) 1993: Merged into OutServe-SLDN: Society for Human Rights: 1924: Dissolved Soulforce: 1998: StartOut: 2009: Active Sylvia Rivera Law Project: 2002: Legal aid: Active The Ace ...
There were three critical elements of developing a profession on the table in these early years: association, credentialing and education. The Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy was founded as an association of mainly hospital-based patient advocates, without the autonomy characteristic of a profession: it was and is a member association of the American Hospital Association.
The LGBTQ+ VCC can answer questions, advocate for the right to quality care, handle complaints or concerns veterans have about your care, and help veterans get started with services for LGBTQ+ Veterans. Contact the LGBTQ+ VCC at your nearest facility. The LGBTQ+ Health Program also worked to develop clinical support for VHA providers.
Fran Drescher, (born 1957, Flushing, New York) is an outspoken healthcare advocate and LGBT rights activist. [348] Mason J. Dunn (born 1985), American lawyer, educator, and LGBTQ+ rights advocate based in Massachusetts. [349] John Duran [350] Sarah Kate Ellis (born 1971), President & CEO of GLAAD. [351]
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) movements are social movements that advocate for LGBTQ people in society. Although there is not a primary or an overarching central organization that represents all LGBTQ people and their interests, numerous LGBTQ rights organizations are active worldwide.