One Voice for Chiropractic

Standard Process is proud to be a member of the Chiropractic Summit, working with 40-plus other organizations dedicated to unifying the chiropractic profession and helping it flourish. The organizations are working together to fulfill the mission of the summit: One Voice – One Message – Securing a Better Future. The group includes leaders of key organizations, colleges, publishers, vendors, and consultants.

“One Voice” is a key concept for the Chiropractic Summit. Those of us involved in the chiropractic profession have always thought that unity would help the profession and give it the ability to express its views with a single, clear voice. That unity, in turn, would help the public and the legislature grasp and apply how chiropractic contributes to the greater good. I’m excited to report that, for the first time ever, the chiropractic profession is unifying in an unprecedented demonstration of solidarity via the Chiropractic Summit.

We’ve had 9 meetings over the last 30 months, and tremendous progress has been made toward identifying the most important issues that the profession faces.

As you can imagine, legislative issues are high on the summit’s agenda right now because of the impending changes in health-care legislation. Recently, the summit worked closely with legislators to craft the nondiscrimination language in the new health-care reform bill. The summit is also working to improve practitioner participation, documentation, and compliance with the Medicare system.

These major accomplishments could prove to be pivotal in establishing professional parity and paving the way for chiropractors to help millions more people.

We’re focused on making sure that the rights of chiropractors and chiropractic patients are protected in any change in the delivery of health-care services. This work fits well with the summit’s six principal concerns:

1. Help doctors feel happier and more satisfied in practice.

2. Unify the profession on the most important issues, values, and standards.

3. Improve profitability for doctors while maintaining fair fee policies for patients.

4. Inspire participation in local, state, national, and international organizations.

5. Address competition from other health-care providers.

6. Represent chiropractic properly for inclusion in national health-care reform.

With health-care consumers eager for new answers and ready to embrace new approaches that make sense, the stage is set for chiropractors to move forward and make a bigger difference, whether in addressing painful problems or providing health and wellness services.

It’s been rewarding to be working with a group wherein all members have a commitment to each other and the summit’s goals. The ultimate beneficiaries of the Chiropractic Summit’s hard work are the people in our communities, who will finally have chiropractic care available for them and their families and the ability to reap the rewards that chiropractic care provides.

For more information on the Chiropractic Summit, and to see a list of members, please visit the group’s website at www.chirosummit.org.

Yours in health,

Charles C. DuBois

President, Standard Process Inc.