We Dedicate this Award to the many people who lost limbs in the tragic events this week in Boston. Included below is information on how the public can help amputees receive the best care and prosthetics. While happy to have received this award, it has been a sad week to spend in Boston, and the best reward would be for the public to become engaged in the issues that affect all people who have lost limbs. In America, it is sometimes easier to get a heart replaced than a prosthesis replaced!
Some news: Originally scheduled to screen at the festival on Friday, April 19th -- along with the rest of Boston -- we went into lock-down and of course all screenings were cancelled. Miraculously the festival rescheduled a last minute showing on Sunday, April 21st. During the Q&A following the screening, Thomas Colburn, the Clinical Director of the Orthotic & Prosthetic Centers of Boston, associated with Tufts Medical Center, delivered a moving message about the film and these timely issues:
The American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association (AOPA) is leading a coalition to provide access to care for uninsured/underinsured amputee victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing to assure that all victims "will walk and run again". Leaders of manufacturer and patient care facility members of AOPA and coalition partners have pledged to connect these amputees and those with related mobility impairment with the needed specialized care for those who may not have any health insurance or the means to assure access to the needed care and artificial limbs, customized bracing and mobility assistive devices. The prosthetic and orthotic care and componentry will be provided at no cost to those patients. The coalition of AOPA members and those affiliated with the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists, the National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics and the Amputee Coalition have mobilized their national membership networks to provide care access and support. The announcement with details on how the needed access to care and support will be provided is located at http://www.aopanet.org/Boston_Marathon_OP_Access.pdf
For more information contact AOPA headquarters at [email protected]
And this very important issue:
The Academy has joined with AOPA to encourage members of Congress to write to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius with regard to the unfair audits to which our members are being subjected. These audits not only hurt our members but the patients they serve. The Academy is working to set up a meeting with Secretary Sebelius and letters from members of Congress will be very helpful to this effort.The letter below is being circulated in the House of Representatives as a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter by Reps. Duckworth (D-IL) and Guthrie (R-KY). We ask that you contact your representative and urge him/her to sign on to the letter.
Click the link below to log in and send your message:
http://www.votervoice.net/link/target/aaop/34f7GJRP.aspx
Some news: Originally scheduled to screen at the festival on Friday, April 19th -- along with the rest of Boston -- we went into lock-down and of course all screenings were cancelled. Miraculously the festival rescheduled a last minute showing on Sunday, April 21st. During the Q&A following the screening, Thomas Colburn, the Clinical Director of the Orthotic & Prosthetic Centers of Boston, associated with Tufts Medical Center, delivered a moving message about the film and these timely issues:
The American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association (AOPA) is leading a coalition to provide access to care for uninsured/underinsured amputee victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing to assure that all victims "will walk and run again". Leaders of manufacturer and patient care facility members of AOPA and coalition partners have pledged to connect these amputees and those with related mobility impairment with the needed specialized care for those who may not have any health insurance or the means to assure access to the needed care and artificial limbs, customized bracing and mobility assistive devices. The prosthetic and orthotic care and componentry will be provided at no cost to those patients. The coalition of AOPA members and those affiliated with the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists, the National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics and the Amputee Coalition have mobilized their national membership networks to provide care access and support. The announcement with details on how the needed access to care and support will be provided is located at http://www.aopanet.org/Boston_Marathon_OP_Access.pdf
For more information contact AOPA headquarters at [email protected]
And this very important issue:
The Academy has joined with AOPA to encourage members of Congress to write to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius with regard to the unfair audits to which our members are being subjected. These audits not only hurt our members but the patients they serve. The Academy is working to set up a meeting with Secretary Sebelius and letters from members of Congress will be very helpful to this effort.The letter below is being circulated in the House of Representatives as a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter by Reps. Duckworth (D-IL) and Guthrie (R-KY). We ask that you contact your representative and urge him/her to sign on to the letter.
Click the link below to log in and send your message:
http://www.votervoice.net/link/target/aaop/34f7GJRP.aspx
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