Protecting Patients' Rights to
Choose the Health Care Professionals
Who Provide Their Care
What is CPR?
What is CPR?
The Coalition for Patients' Rights™ (CPR) consists of 14 organizations representing more than 1 million health care professionals who provide essential health care services safely and cost-effectively to tens of millions of patients each year.
Our Mission
Our Mission
CPR's mission is to meet the nation's growing and increasingly diverse health care needs by ensuring patients have direct access to the full scope of services offered by their chosen health care providers.
Issues
Issues
CPR works to protect patients' rights by educating lawmakers, healthcare professionals, patients and other stakeholders about health care provider issues. Here is a sample of CPR's issue engagement:
What's at Stake?
Physician societies and other special interest groups often seek to limit the scope of practice of other health care professionals. These scope of practice restrictions can have serious consequences for our health care system, including:
