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Photos from the ACCAHC Biennial Meeting
On June 26-28, 2011, 95 professionals from a dozen health professions gathered at Bastyr for the ACCAHC Biennial Meeting. Most are individuals who are active volunteers or leaders of ACCAHC member organizations. Participants focused on interprofessional education and care (IPE/C), primary care, research priorities and competencies for integration, and internal business.
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Clinicians’ and Educators’ Desk Reference on the Licensed Complementary and Alternative Healthcare Professions

This guide to the 5 licensed CAM professions, written by vetted experts, is a desk reference for clinicians and a textbook and resource for educators and students.  Also included is information on emerging fields of traditional world medicines, holistic nursing and holistic and integrative medicine. For more information and to order the book click here.

ACCAHC Overview

The Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC) is a vehicle for shifting medicine toward a system which focuses on health. We envision:

"… a healthcare system that is multidisciplinary and enhances competence, mutual respect, and collaboration across all complementary, alternative, and conventional healthcare disciplines. This system will deliver effective care that is patient centered, focused on health creation and healing, and readily accessible to all populations."

Activities

We engage and support activities in the areas of education, clinical care, research and policy clarification which will help transform the patient-experience through strengthening understanding and cooperation among educators, researchers, clinicians from distinct healthcare disciplines. We believe that quality patient care demands that we take action to get out of our separate silos.

MembershipConsortium Member Relations To ACCAHC Core

Our core Organizational Membership consists of councils of colleges and schools, accrediting agencies, and certification and testing organizations associated with the five distinctly licensed complementary healthcare professions which have a federally recognized accrediting agency. These are:

  • acupuncture and Oriental medicine
  • chiropractic
  • direct entry (homebirth) midwifery
  • massage therapy, and
  • naturopathic medicine.

Our membership also includes organizations representing Traditional World Medicines and emerging professions that are engaging the self-regulatory challenges which help protect the health of the public. In additions, individual accredited schools are also eligible for membership.

Philanthropy

ACCAHC is supported by member dues, grants from philanthropic partners, and contributions from Associate Members who support our mission. A group of Sustaining Donors allows us to engage the priorities we collaboratively establish.

Member Services

Our individual college and schools members and the programs associated with our colleges and schools members each offer educational programs and clinical services. Information is available through the Organizational Members the council of colleges logos on the homepage as well as through the Individual Colleges member list.

Participation

We welcome the participation of other individuals, institutions and businesses that support this work as Associate Members. Each will be honored on this site and will receive the electronic ACCAHC newsletter.