Healthcare Policy
We collaborate with healthcare consumers, providers, academicians, and researchers to create NWHSU policy briefs on a range of healthcare topics.
- Racial Inequities In Integrative Healthcare (November 2020)
- A Wholistic CrossSector Workforce (June 2020)
- Recognizing CIH Providers (March 2020)
- Establishing Licensure For Massage Therapists (March 2020)
- Looking Beyond the Opioid Misuse Epidemic: The Role for Non-Pharmacologic Treatment of Musculoskeletal Pain (June 2019)
CHIP also submits commentary on local and national healthcare strategy, on behalf of NWHSU:
- Opioid Action Plan, request for information to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (October 2019)
- Pain Management Best Practices, request for comment to the Department of Health and Human Services (March 2019)
- The Minnesota Fair Care Act: patients’ rights & provider nondiscrimination legislation (August 2017)