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The Center for Advancing Health works to ensure that all people have the information and support they need to respond to the challenges of finding and using safe, decent health care.

Health care and current efforts to reform it largely ignore the complex tasks people must perform effectively if they are to benefit from the services, drugs and technologies available to them. Further, increased demands for people to be engaged in their care places a heavy burden on those who are already ill, those with lower literacy skills and those with fewer resources that undermines their potential to benefit from the care available to them.

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Your donation will contribute to using evidence to advance engagement and equity in American health care by supporting us as we:
  • Persuade leading health professionals, hospital administrators and government officials to make changes in health care policy and practice that help and support — and do not hinder — peoples' effective engagement in their health care
  • Provide the public — via the media — trustworthy evidence that supports their effective engagement in health and health care. See an example here.
  • Develop and disseminate nationally tools that help doctors and hospitals provide guidance that supports patients and families in engaging in their care
We do not provide counsel to individual patients and families.

Make a Gift In Someone's Name

Send a gift that directly benefits people facing a health care challenge: You or your organization can donate to the AfterShock library fund.

The library fund aims to place a copy of AfterShock in the patient libraries/ health education centers of community hospitals in all 50 states. Donations can be made in your name, or in the name of someone you love and can be directed toward specific institutions. Each book you donate will be inscribed with your name or the name of your organization.

If you would like a list of local hospitals, they are available on the web. Try these resources:

http://tinyurl.com/bfrvvh — a website developed and managed by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.

Or for a list of cancer centers consider the National Comprehensive Cancer Centers website: http://www.nccn.org/