Program Goals for the Year 2000
- The Foundation will continue to support patients who actively require continued assistance in finding legitimate pain treatment
- The Foundation will target states which still do not have Intractable Pain Acts and will seek to organize local efforts to get pain acts legislated in these states.
- The Foundation will continue to recruit highly experienced National Advisors to accomplish its tasks of education, patient care and policy change.
- The Foundation will continue to recruit patient and physician members.
- The Foundation will seek on-going funding from sponsors to maintain the WEB site, expand its features, and establish permanent staffing for the Foundation’s work.
- The Foundation will continue to serve as a voice for intractable pain patients in legal advocacy, legislative activities and with the media. It will undertake the production of a documentary on the plight of intractable pain patients.
- The Foundation will continue work on implementation of the Pain Patients Bill of Rights in California.
- The Foundation will continue efforts to include Pain Patients Rights in a Federal Patients Bill of rights.
- The Foundation will continue to monitor the scientific and medical literature to provide pain patients with information on the latest medical and technical advances in pain management.
- The Foundation will continue to provide an intensive in-patient treatment program for patients without adequate local resources, and will continue to refine and improve this program
- The Foundation will establish a National Spokesperson for Intractable Pain Patients who will become our "Pain Star".
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