Last Edit: 7/15/2025
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Accrediting Organization |
Accrediting organizations are private, nonprofit bodies legally incorporated to carry out accreditation activity. |
| Care Partner Advocacy | Organizations that serve as advocates for care partners and families to increase awareness and support living with a person with chronic care needs by connecting them with educational forums, activities, and support groups, and by providing care partners with valuable information and resources. |
| Patient Advocacy | Patient Advocacy Groups (PAGs) are organizations that promote the needs and priorities of patients. Patient advocacy groups represent and support patients and their families/care partners by providing: Patient education and support; Legislative and Regulatory advice, Clinical and translational research, and disease awareness and fundraising. |
| Professional | Professional associations in healthcare represent a collection of professionals who work towards the common goal of promoting and improving the medical profession they are associated with. |
| Research Institute | A research institute is an organized unit that promotes and coordinates research in a specific field or with a particular purpose |