Members

We are a diverse alliance of patient and consumer advocacy groups, health care professionals and providers, private sector stakeholders, faith-based organizations, and health care payers with the shared mission to help provide all Americans, especially the sickest and most vulnerable, with comprehensive, high quality, person- and family- centered care that is consistent with their goals and values and honors their dignity.

Organizations

  • AARP
  • Aetna
  • Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation
  • Allina Health
  • Alzheimer’s Association
  • Amedisys
  • America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
  • American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM)
  • American Academy of Nursing (AAN)
  • American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM)
  • American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
  • American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
  • American Association of Critical Care Nurses
  • American Cancer Society
  • American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
  • American Diabetes Association
  • American Dental Education Association
  • American Geriatrics Society
  • American Heart Association
  • American Hospital Assocation
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
  • The Arc of the United States
  • Ascension Health
  • Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
  • Aurora Health Care
  • Baylor Health Care System
  • Belvedere Health Services
  • Brown University
  • C-Change
  • Coalition for Compassionate Care of California
  • The California State University Institute for Palliative Care at Cal State San Marcos (CSUSM)
  • CancerCare
  • Capital Caring
  • Care Continuum Alliance
  • Care Support of America
  • CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
  • Caregiver Action Network
  • Caring Foundations
  • Center for Corporate Innovation
  • Center for Practical Bioethics
  • CIGNA
  • Consumer Coalition for Quality Health Care
  • DocuBank
  • Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life
  • Engage With Grace/Eliza Corporation
  • Foundation for End of Life Care
  • Geisinger Health System
  • George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health
  • The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
  • Gundersen Health System
  • The Hastings Center
  • Healthcare Leadership Council
  • Healthwise
  • Highmark
  • The Holding Group
  • Honoring Choices Massachusetts
  • Honoring Choices Minnesota
  • Honoring Choices Wisconsin
  • Hospice Foundation of America
  • Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA)
  • Humana
  • Institute of Medicine (IOM)
  • Intermed
  • Intermountain Healthcare
  • Jewish Healthcare Foundation
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care
  • Kendal Corporation
  • LeadingAge
  • Long-Term Quality Alliance
  • MyDirectives
  • National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA)
  • National Alliance for Caregiving
  • National Alliance for Hispanic Health
  • National Business Group on Health
  • National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
  • National Coalition on Health Care
  • National Council on Aging
  • National Healthcare Decisions Day Initiative
  • National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)
  • National Hospice Work Group
  • National Partnership for Women & Families
  • National Retail Federation
  • Optum
  • Partners HealthCare System
  • Pfizer
  • Positive Medicine
  • Premier Healthcare Alliance
  • Progressive National Baptist Convention
  • RAND Health
  • ReACT
  • The Rest of Your Life (RoYL) Planning
  • Roundtable on Critical Care Policy
  • The SCAN Foundation
  • SCAN Health Plan
  • Seniorlink
  • Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network
  • Sterling Health IT Consulting
  • Sutter Care at Home/Sutter Health
  • Tenet Healthcare
  • TridentUSA Health Services
  • UCLA Healthcare Ethics Center
  • UnitedHealth
  • University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Nursing
  • University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
  • University of Utah
  • University of Virginia Health System
  • Univita Health
  • US Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Visiting Nurse Associations of America
  • Visiting Nurse Service Of New York 
  • Vital Decisions
  • WellPoint

Liaisons

  • Jeri L Miller, Head, Office of Research on End-of-Life Science and Palliative Care, Investigator, Training, and Education (OEPC), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

Individuals

  • Patricia A. Bomba, MD, FACP, Vice President & Medical Director, Geriatrics; Excellus BlueCross BlueShield & MedAmerica Insurance Company; Chair, MOLST Statewide Implementation Team & eMOLST Program Director; Chair, National Healthcare Decisions Day NYS Coalition
  • Daniel B. Carr, MD, Director, Pain Research, Education and Policy Program (PREP)Department of Public Health and Community MedicineProfessor of Public Health and Community Medicine (primary appointment)Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, and Molecular Physiology and Pharmacology (secondary appointments)Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Linda Emanuel, Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Ellen Lawton, Executive Director, Medical Legal Partnership
  • Cynda Hylton Rushton, Professor of Nursing and Pediatrics, Core Faculty Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
  • Charles P. Sabatino, Director, ABA Commission on Law and Aging
  • Jack Schwartz, Professor, University of Maryland School of Law
  • Sharyn Sutton, Social Enterprise Consultant
  • Lauren Van Scoy, MD, Founder of KnowYourWishes.com
  • Jeff Viohl, Founder and President, Viohl and Associates
  • Sasha Whitaker, Get Real Consulting

For more information about Organizational Membership, click here or contact us directly.