Learn, Educate, Advocate
Posted: April 11, 2024
Patient advocacy empowers you to leverage your distinctive knowledge and expertise in physical therapy to engage with your member of Congress. By sharing your personal experiences and insights, you aim to raise awareness and shape the perspectives of legislators and their staff. The most impactful method? Sharing compelling patient narratives. These stories serve as powerful tools, illuminating the vital role of physical therapy and driving meaningful change.
Here are three ways YOU can make a difference:
- LEARN about some of the issues we will be lobbying on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on April 16th . Watch the videos below and/or learn about the issues important to Home Health at the FIRST EVER APTA Home Health National Advocacy Dinner for our academy’s student members. Register today and be eligible to win a prize!
- Schedule a district office meeting when your member of congress is home. Meet with them in the district simply by making a phone call to their office and asking for an appointment. Being a constituent makes you an important person. EDUCATE your legislator on some of the issues important to PT and our patients. Share those patient stories by having your patient join you in the meeting, playing a video of their message, or telling their story.
- Join the Advocacy Network and send your letters by April 16th to support hundreds of other APTA members including myself who will be marching on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on your behalf to ADVOCATE for physical therapy and our patients.
We have seen, through the years, the profound impact advocacy has on the profession of physical therapy. APTA has always been able to count on our seasoned advocates, who have continued to move the needle in the halls of Congress, but now we turn to you.
Learn, Educate and Advocate. Our patients & physical therapy are counting on us!
Dr. Eva Norman, PT, DPT, CEEAA
APTA Home Health Federal Affairs Liaison
[email protected]
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