Where are your professional and credentialing Associations ????
Tony Barr
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Where are your professional and credentialing Associations ????
Creator:
Tony Barr
Date:
1/9/2001
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Why does the board members of AAOP and ABC remain silent of thier support in legislation passed which permit OTs and PTs, without CAAHEP educational quidelines, to provide O&P services??
What possible motive could the national professional organization credentialed by ABC have in supporting AOPA's initiative for the entrance of non CAAHEP providers??
Members of the Academy and ABC certified practitioners deserve explanation from thier two perspective boards.
Your credentialing organization and professional association have placed new meaning on the ABC credentials being set as minimum standards of care for providers of comprehensive O&P services.
ABC was developed in 1948, an origin incidently, which was strategically driven and necessary as the direct result of a Federal Trade Commission investigation of possible violations of monoply laws by AOPA !!
Perhaps the AAOS organization, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, most responsible and which strongly encouraged ABC credentials as minimum standards of ensuring competency in 1948, should revisit the recent loosening of CAAHEP standards made excempt for Ots and Pts thru recent legislation?
Perhaps FTC should also check on recent AOPA compliance today.
If ABC and subsequently the Academy were formed to provide standards to the profession and more open arms length transactions between the industry and the providers, what has been accomplished by these two organizations remaining silent on the recent industry's support of lowering the professional standards of providers?
If I was a member of either organization, ABC or the Academy, I would certainly expect some explanation from the board members.
Lets hear from some of the leaders I have grown to respect in the profession i.e Supan, Allen,Tamoush, Hoxie, Bob Brown, John Billock,Prausakowski,and others.How do you feel about the recent legislation?Put your membership and certifees at rest with some sort of explanation!!
We have already heard from the industry!
Tony Barr
> The dilema we face has to do with AAOP. One of AAOP 's roles is to advocate
> for persons with disabilities through the advocacy of high levels of training
> and education for its members. This doesn't wash with AOPA,s ideas and while
> there are many excellent educators and persons on the board there are also
> several board members on AAOP board that are sympathic to the old way of
> doing business and I also believe that their are a fair number of board
> members on AAOP's board that dont have a clue about what is happening between
> these organizations at all.
What possible motive could the national professional organization credentialed by ABC have in supporting AOPA's initiative for the entrance of non CAAHEP providers??
Members of the Academy and ABC certified practitioners deserve explanation from thier two perspective boards.
Your credentialing organization and professional association have placed new meaning on the ABC credentials being set as minimum standards of care for providers of comprehensive O&P services.
ABC was developed in 1948, an origin incidently, which was strategically driven and necessary as the direct result of a Federal Trade Commission investigation of possible violations of monoply laws by AOPA !!
Perhaps the AAOS organization, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, most responsible and which strongly encouraged ABC credentials as minimum standards of ensuring competency in 1948, should revisit the recent loosening of CAAHEP standards made excempt for Ots and Pts thru recent legislation?
Perhaps FTC should also check on recent AOPA compliance today.
If ABC and subsequently the Academy were formed to provide standards to the profession and more open arms length transactions between the industry and the providers, what has been accomplished by these two organizations remaining silent on the recent industry's support of lowering the professional standards of providers?
If I was a member of either organization, ABC or the Academy, I would certainly expect some explanation from the board members.
Lets hear from some of the leaders I have grown to respect in the profession i.e Supan, Allen,Tamoush, Hoxie, Bob Brown, John Billock,Prausakowski,and others.How do you feel about the recent legislation?Put your membership and certifees at rest with some sort of explanation!!
We have already heard from the industry!
Tony Barr
> The dilema we face has to do with AAOP. One of AAOP 's roles is to advocate
> for persons with disabilities through the advocacy of high levels of training
> and education for its members. This doesn't wash with AOPA,s ideas and while
> there are many excellent educators and persons on the board there are also
> several board members on AAOP board that are sympathic to the old way of
> doing business and I also believe that their are a fair number of board
> members on AAOP's board that dont have a clue about what is happening between
> these organizations at all.
Citation
Tony Barr, “Where are your professional and credentialing Associations ????,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed December 26, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/215834.
