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We are excited to offer the workshop “Plan Beyond Cancer – Survivorship Care Planning” in partnership with Gilda’s Club of Madison and generously funded by the Susan G. Komen South Central Wisconsin Affiliate. This workshop will introduce the survivorship care planning process, demonstrate our companion website (PlanBeyondCancer.org) and additional resources, and give participants a chance …

CPP submitted comments regarding proposed rule for the Navigator programs that are mandated as an element of state-level insurance exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. To read our comments, click here.

We are excited to offer the workshop “Advocacy For Me – Learning to Advocate for Your Health” in partnership with Gilda’s Club of Madison and generously funded by the Susan G. Komen South Central Wisconsin Affiliate. This workshop will explore what it means to be your own advocate, give you a chance to learn from …

Testing Baby: The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking Within forty-eight hours after birth, the heel of every baby in the United States has been pricked and the blood sent for compulsory screening to detect or rule out a large number of disorders. Newborn screening is expanding rapidly, fueled by the prospect of saving …

Meg Gaines is a panelist on Engaging Consumers through Better Information at Promoting Higher Quality and Value through Health Insurance Exchanges event hosted by the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institute in Washington, DC on July 25, 2011.

Meg Gaines is speaking at the 2011 ABIM Foundation Forum, Choosing Wisely: The Responsibility of Physicians, Patients and the Health Care Community in Building a Sustainable System on July 31, 2011 in Lake Tahoe. Her presentation is entitled Pathways Forward: The Role of Patients and Consumers.

Patients As Policy Actors Edited and with an Introduction by Beatrix Hoffman, Nancy Tomes, Rachel Grob & Mark Schlesinger Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field’s most important developments of the last fifty years—the rise of more consciously patient-centered care and policymaking. The authors in this volume illustrate, from …

The Center for Patient Partnerships was selected as a winner in the 13th annual Web Health Awards℠ program. This biannual competition recognizes the nation’s best digital health resources. Pathways to Empowerment received a Silver Award for Web-based Resource/Tool. Pathways to Empowerment was chosen from more than 500 entries judged by a panel of distinguished experts …

Concerned about access to healthcare? Looking for  information on legislation affecting healthcare? Want to take action? From our vantage point in Wisconsin’s state capital, we have followed the outpouring of citizen action in response to proposed cuts to public health resources and increased healthcare costs for public workers. Information on changes in healthcare for Wisconsin …

As the Center for Patient Partnerships enters its second decade of operation, the health/patient advocacy movement in the U.S. is beginning to come of age. When the CPP was founded in 2001, there was only one other program educating for advocacy at the graduate level – the Master’s in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College. …