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ICA President Announces Board Adoption of Value Statements Promoting a New Spirit of Respectful Collaboration

6 June 2019 (Falls Church, VA)International Chiropractors Association (ICA) President Stephen P. Welsh, DC, FICA announced today the adoption of new value statements by the ICA Board of Directors. 

 

Dr. Welsh stated,“For too long there has been divisiveness and disrespectful discourse within our profession. This disrespect was on full display at presentations by members of the World Federation of Chiropractic Research Council in Berlin that were so egregious that the ICA Board voted unanimously to file a formal complaint. The ICA is resolved to lead the change within our profession by adopting value statements in order to set a new tenor for our professional community world-wide. “

 

ICA’s Five New Value Statements:

 

Respect: We acknowledge and honor the diverse perspectives and approaches in the practice of chiropractic and in promoting health, healing, and well-being. We pledge to conduct ourselves with kindness, compassion, direct and honest communication.

 

Equitability: We advocate for a healthcare system that is just, fair, and free from discrimination. We believe that all people should have equal access to services that promote health and well-being, including chiropractic care. We support the inclusion of all licensed health providers that are practicing within the scope and standards of their profession and advocate for compensation that is commensurate and fair for services provided.

 

Empowerment: We advocate for a health care system that gives people control of their own health and health promoting practices. We foster the development of health promoting capacity in individuals, organizations and health professions through education, knowledge and information, advocacy, access, communication, and collaboration.

 

Collaboration: We are dedicated to working in respectful dialogue and supportive partnership with others to address the needs of individuals and society for better health and healthcare systems.

 

Transparency: We act in a way that is easy for others to see what we are doing and why we are doing it. We make available full information required for collaboration, cooperation, and collective decision making.

 

The ICA Visionstatement provides that we seek to Empower humanity to optimal life expression, health and human potential through specific and scientific chiropractic care.

 

The ICA’s Missionis To protect and promote chiropractic throughout the world as a distinct health care profession predicated upon its unique philosophy, science, and art of subluxation detection and correction.

 

The ICA has recently streamlined its affiliation process and welcomes all chiropractic associations world-wide that support the ICA vision, mission, and value statements to apply for affiliate status.

 

Dr. Welsh continued, “To fulfill our mission and vision, it essential to have respectful dialogue and collaboration both intra-professionally and inter-professionally. We work cooperatively to eliminate discrimination against all vitalistic health care professions, of which chiropractic is the largest. ICA is currently working to advance federal legislation to eliminate discrimination against chiropractic patients currently existing in the Medicare system. The ICA objective is to remove existing barriers in order to provide Medicare beneficiaries a non-drug alternative for both acute and chronic pain conditions related to the subluxation, we will work with our professional colleagues to achieve this goal.”

 

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For Immediate Release

Media Contact: Name: Bridget Van Egmond

Title: Executive Director

Phone: 703-528-5000 Email:bvanegmond@chiropractic.org

About the International Chiropractors Association Vision: To empower humanity to optimal life expression, health and human potential through specific and scientific chiropractic care.
Mission: To protect and promote chiropractic throughout the world as a distinct health care profession predicated upon its unique philosophy, science, and art of subluxation detection and correction.

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