ADVOCACY ENGAGEMENT:

What:

Impacting Patient Care by Surgeon Involvement. Surgical Health Policy Advocacy is a resource to learn methods of engaging in governmental affairs to make your voice as a healthcare professional have impact.

Why:

Participating in Surgical Health Policy Advocacy is an aspect of surgical and medical professionalism that ensures patient access to care and promotes meaningful public health policy.

How:

Involvement ranges in spectrum from minimal involvement such as individual voting to communicating via letter or email to your elected official to developing relationships with active involvement in policy and legislative activity.

Advocacy Engagement Types:

Issue Based Advocacy

Programmatic Advocacy

Issue Based Advocacy

Educating legislators and staff on policy or topic areas via a variety of communication modalities and relationship building.

Grassroots Advocacy

Programmatic Advocacy

Issue Based Advocacy

Engaging individuals in an advocacy effort with direct contact effort generated over a broad base and interval of time.

Programmatic Advocacy

Political Campaign Activity

An organization takes a position on a public policy and works with its resources and members to effect change.

Political Campaign Activity

May be done on an individual basis or via contributions to a Political Action Committee (PAC) to support or oppose political candidates

Formal Lobbying

Political Campaign Activity

Demonstrations or Boycotts

Paid lobbyist by an organization or company. May work in coordination with topic experts and advocates.

Demonstrations or Boycotts

Political Campaign Activity

Demonstrations or Boycotts

Organized rallying of public support around an issue that may be used to encourage or discourage business with a targeted entity

Examples of Engagement Methods:

Individual legislative meetings

Meeting with legislators or their staff in their home district office or at the state or federal capital.

Zoom visits

Legislative fund raiser

Relationship Building

Individual legislative meetings

Develop a relationship with a legislator and/or their office staff. Become a trusted resource.

Direct Communications

Individual legislative meetings

Direct Communications

Letter Writing

Email Writing

Phone calls for support or opposition on a specific issue

Social media

Tours of healthcare facility

Direct Communications

Direct method of communicating or discussing issues. May be used for simple support. Care should be taken with messaging.

State Advocacy Day

Tours of healthcare facility

Tool kits

Host an Advocacy Dinner

Organized Legislative Visits

Tours of healthcare facility

Invite legislators or thier staff to tour and visit your facility.

Advocacy Leadership:

County, State, and National Forums

Becoming a leader to the public forum:

Testifying in State Legislature

Committees

Mentoring

County, State, and National Forums

Mentoring by experienced advocates to young professionals and more recent adoptees - leading by example

Advocacy Days

Letter Writing Campaigns

Professional Societies

County and State Medical Societies

Surgical Societies: State and National

General and Specialty

Blog Updates

Advocacy Seminars

Professional Societies

Grand Rounds

Society Presentations

State Chapter Meetings

Surgical Health Policy Advocacy

Engagement to improve patient Care Delivery

ADVOCACY ENGAGEMENT:

What:

Why:

How:

Advocacy Engagement Types:

Issue Based Advocacy

Programmatic Advocacy

Issue Based Advocacy

Grassroots Advocacy

Programmatic Advocacy

Issue Based Advocacy

Programmatic Advocacy

Programmatic Advocacy

Political Campaign Activity

Political Campaign Activity

Political Campaign Activity

Political Campaign Activity

Formal Lobbying

Political Campaign Activity

Demonstrations or Boycotts

Demonstrations or Boycotts

Political Campaign Activity

Demonstrations or Boycotts

Examples of Engagement Methods:

Individual legislative meetings

Individual legislative meetings

Individual legislative meetings

Relationship Building

Individual legislative meetings

Individual legislative meetings

Direct Communications

Individual legislative meetings

Direct Communications

Social media

Tours of healthcare facility

Direct Communications

State Advocacy Day

Tours of healthcare facility

Tours of healthcare facility

Tours of healthcare facility

Tours of healthcare facility

Tours of healthcare facility

Points of Contact - Surgical Health Policy Advocacy:

Advocacy Leadership:

County, State, and National Forums

County, State, and National Forums

County, State, and National Forums

Mentoring

County, State, and National Forums

County, State, and National Forums

Professional Societies

Professional Societies

Professional Societies

Advocacy Seminars

Professional Societies

Professional Societies

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