Dialysis Patient Citizens

Grassroots Advocacy: Our mission is to elevate the patient voice with policy makers, so perhaps nothing is more important than the work we do to empower our members. This includes on-line advocacy tools, advertising to encourage action, and additional outreach to our members.

Patient Education, Membership Services and other programs: DPC works hard to engage our members as well as to recruit additional advocates. Those efforts include preparing electronic communications/newsletters, hosting multiple conference calls, developing detailed resources for our website, producing a variety of print/electronic materials to support their efforts, participation in various meetings and conferences, collaboration with multiple coalition partners, and more.

State Advocacy: Much of health care is regulated at the state level, especially insurance coverage. As a result, DPC has a robust program to engage with state policy makers, including state insurance commissioners and state legislators.

Federal Advocacy: Systemwide change is often only accomplished through federal regulation or legislation. DPC has multiple staff and consultants working with our members to elevate the patient voice.

Public Relations: DPC works to educate the public on issues affecting kidney disease patients, which includes media outreach, digital advertising and social media engagement.

Patient Fly-ins: We bring our patient advocates to Washington, DC to meet with their legislators and Administration officials on a regular basis. These efforts help to remind policy makers that real people are impacted by their decisions, and that it is not just a line-item in the budget they are considering.

Legal Advocacy: DPC is committed to protecting the access to care for kidney disease patients. Whether challenging the inappropriate behavior of insurers in the courts, or unconstitutional laws enacted by policy makers with potentially devastating unintended consequences.