The Alliance is a statewide non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to quality affordable health care for all. Since 2008, the Alliance has been working to build the consumer and community leadership required to transform the American health system.
Mission: Providing a united consumer voice for quality affordable healthcare choices in Missouri.
Values
1. All Missouri residents will have access to comprehensive, quality health care services. Access will be timely, equitable, and supported by a full array of social and economic services.
2. Disparities in treatment, service quality, and outcomes will be eliminated.
3. Healthcare services will be affordable by all. Individuals, employers and government will each bear their fair share of the costs.
4. Efficiencies will be encouraged and costs reduced.
5. Preventing disease, maintaining health, and promoting healthy lifestyles will be given as much priority as treating disease.
6. Communities will be engaged in making decisions about their local health systems and invest the resources needed to assure those systems meet the highest quality standards. Among those standards, the most important is respect for the dignity, sanctity and autonomy of the individual.
7. Healthcare providers will receive the best training available, maintain their skills at the highest levels, and provide patients the standard of care appropriate for their diagnosis and clinical circumstance. They will be fairly compensated for their services.
8. Health care providers will have the cultural and linguistic competency to communicate fully with their patients, and the ethics and compassion to do so.
9. Patients will be empowered and educated to question and interact with providers in the determination of their diagnosis and in making appropriate treatment choices. They and their advocates will feel welcome and safe in all health care facilities and settings, have their physical needs fully accommodated, and trust their health care providers.
10. Alternative, complementary and holistic approaches to healing, where appropriate, will become an accepted component of treatment planning.
Vision: Missouri becomes a national leader in health access, quality, equity and outcomes.
