The Center provides resources and expertise to ensure that patients and families, particularly those with complex health and social needs, have a voice at all levels of the health care delivery system — from individual care to health system design to state and national policy.
The needs and experiences of health care consumers — particularly people in marginalized or low-income communities or with complex needs and significant disabilities — are the driving force of the Center’s work. Documenting and amplifying patients’ real-life health care situations, in their own words, is central to our ability to create a health care system that works for all of us. Click below for stories from some of the consumers we work with.
Shannon, a dedicated mother of two, knows the struggle of paying for medical care. And, as a single parent of a child with several medical diagnoses who requires long-term care, this is especially true.
Formeeca makes her family’s health care her priority, often putting her own care on pause to focus on helping her daughter and her son, who has autism, secure their needed health care.
Like other girls her age, Chelsea loves to sing, play sports and spend quality time with her family and friends. But Chelsea has unique needs that must be met and her Medicaid coverage is key to Chelsea’s ability to thrive at school and in her many other activities.
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