Endorsers of Our Plan

There are (83 total, including some businesses) organizations that endorse the amendment. Add your organization!

Note: Institutional members of HCFANC are in bold font

Professional Health Organizations:

• Alcoholism Professionals of North Carolina
• American Medical Students Assoc, ECU (jun 06)
• American Medical Students Assoc., UNC, Chapel Hill
• National Association of Social Workers-North Carolina Chapter (NASW-NC)
• NC College of Emergency Physicians
• NC Community Health Center Association
• NC Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• NC Nurses Association
• NC Pediatric Society
• NC Psychiatric Association
• NC Public Health Association
• NC Substance Abuse Federation
• UNC Hospitals Housestaff Council 2002
• UNC-CH SNMA (Student - National Medical Association)
• Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, American Medical Student Association
• Whitehead Medical Society (Student Government of the UNC Medical School)

Community Health Organizations:

• Action for Children
• Alcohol/Drug Council of North Carolina
• Breast Cancer Coalition of NC
• Coalition For Continuity of Care in Geriatric Services
• Community Health Coalition - 2010, Durham NC
• Community Health Coalition, Freemont NC
• Durham Crisis Response Center: Domestic & Sexual Violence Services
• FirstHealth Community Voices
• Friends of Residents in Long Term Care
• National Alliance for The Mentally Ill - North Carolina
• National Multiple Sclerosis Society, NC Chapters
• NC Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers
• NC Health Access Coalition
• NC Occupational Safety and Health Project
• NC Student Rural Health Coalition
• Senior PHARMAssist
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom-Triangle branch

Political and Labor Organizations:

• Board of Commissioners, 2000, Durham County
• Board of Commissioners, 2000, Tyrell County
• Board of Commissioners, 2000, Warren County
• Board of Commissioners, 2001, Orange County
• Democracy North Carolina
• Democratic Party, Moore County
• Democratic Party, New Hanover County
• Democratic Party, Orange County
• North Carolina Democratic Party (2002, 2005)
• North Carolina Green Party
• North Carolina State AFL-CIO
• SEANC State Employees Association of NC (2000)
• SEANC, District 25 - State Employees Association of NC
• Triangle J Council of Governments
• UE Local 150, NC Public Service Workers Union
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Student Congress

Community Justice & Religious Organizations:

• Advocacy for the Poor, Winston-Salem
• Black Workers for Justice, NC
• Catholic Diocese of Raleigh
• Chapel Hill Area Chapter of NC - AARP
• Chapel Hill Friends Meeting
• Charles M. Jones Peace and Justice Committee of the Community Church, Chapel Hill
• Church Women United
• Concerned Citizens of Tillery
• Durham People's Alliance
• El Pueblo, Inc
• Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Social Justice Committee
• Greenville Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
• Highland United Methodist Church, Raleigh, Social Justice Committee
• Methodist Federation for Social Action, Western Conference, United Methodist Church
• NC Alliance for Economic Justice
• NC American Association of Retired Persons, NC-AARP
• NC Consumers' Council
• NC Council of Churches
• NC Fair Share
• NC Hunger Network
• NC Low Income Housing Coalition
• NC Public Interest Research Group, NCPIRG
• NC Society for Ethical Culture
• NC Women United Peace and Justice Mission Group, Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh
• Shared Visions Foundation
• Southern Anti-Racism Network
• Waughtown Street Neighborhood Assoc., Winston-Salem
• Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church

Businesses

Please patronize these businesses! Ask your favorite businesses to consider joining too!

• Alyssa Hinton Artworks, Carrboro
• Cozy INC (770 Ninth St), Durham
• Francesca's Dessert Cafe, (706 Ninth St), Durham
• Pelazzo Artworks, Black Mountain
• Vaguely Reminiscent, (728 Ninth St), Durham
• Weaver Street Market, Carrboro

State Legislators

• Ellie Kinnaird - Member, NC Senate
• Howard Lee - Member, NC Senate
• Bernard Allen - Member, NC House of Representatives
• Jennifer Weiss - Member, NC House of Representatives
• Mary E. McAllister - Member, NC House of Representatives
• Martha Alexander - Member, NC House of Representatives
• Thomas Wright - Member, NC House of Representatives
• Verla Insko - Member, NC House of Representatives
• Joe Hackney - Member, NC House of Representatives
• Paul Luebke - Member, NC House of Representatives
• Larry Womble - Member, NC House of Representatives
• Alma Adams - Member, NC House of Representatives

Other prominent individuals who have endorsed:

(affiliations listed for identification of individuals only)

• James A. Bryan II, MD, FACP - Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine, UNC, Chapel Hill; Governor of the American College of Physicians NC Chapter and NC Society of Internal Medicine
• Gordon H. Defriese, Ph.D - Professor of Social Medicine, UNC, Chapel Hill; past Director, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research; President, NC Institute of Medicine
• John Hope Franklin, Ph.D. - James B. Duke Professor of History Emeritus and Chair of the Advisory Board for President Clinton's Initiative on Race
• William C. Friday - President Emeritus, The University of North Carolina
• Christopher C. Fordham III, MD - Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, UNC; former Dean of the UNC School of Medicine; and former Chancellor of UNC - Chapel Hill
• Charles B. Hammond, MD - Professor and past Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, stepped down in April 2001, Duke University; President of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• Nancy M. P. King, JD - Professor of Social Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Ronald H. Levine, MD, MPH - Clinical Professor of Health Policy and Administration, UNC, Chapel Hill; former State Health Director
• Kenneth Ring - Health Director, Madison County Health Department
• Gene R. Nichol - Former Dean and Burton Craige Professor of Law, UNC School of Law, Chapel Hill
• Dick Monteith - Former Mayor of Wake Forest, NC
• Eric B. Munson - President and Chief Executive Officer,the University of North Carolina Hospitals
• Denise Nadeau, MD - Medical Director, Orange-Durham County Planned Parenthood
• Martha Salyers, MD, MPH - Medical Director, Buncombe County Health Center
• John B. Buse, MD, PhD, CDE, FACE - Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, Diabetes's Care Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
• Margaret S. Miles, R.N., Ph.D. - Professor of Pediatric Nursing, UNC-CH School of Nursing
• Joel Tepper, MD - Chair and Professor of Radiation Oncology, UNC, Chapel Hill
• Pam Silberman, JD, DrPH. - Associate Director for Policy Analysis, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, UNC-CH; Vice President of the NC Institute of Medicine Associate Director for, Policy Analysis, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, UNC-CH; Vice President of the NC Institute of Medicine
• Nancy Milio, Ph.D., R.N., FAPHA, FAAN - Professor of Health Policy & Administration, School of Public Health, Professor of Nursing, UNC, Chapel Hill
• Evelyn Scmidt, M.D. - Pediatrician, Durham
• John Gamble - former Member, of NC House of Representatives
• Lewis Miles - Extension Specialist in Community Development; University of Missouri, Retired in NC
• Wib Gulley - former Member State Senator

Institutional members of NC-CDHC pay at least one full membership annually to NC-CDHC and have one vote. We encourage their members to join as well in order to gain more votes and involvement (as we do for the non-paying "Endorsing Organizations")