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Every year, the occupational therapy class at University at Buffalo participates in the advocacy day at the capitol building in Albany. This year, I was one of the students who participated in advocacy day to advocate the issues related to my profession. It was an enlightening experience for me. Before I went to Albany, I had a skype meeting with NYSOTA lobbyist Jeff Tomlinson to hear updates about the OT issues and become familiar with talking points that I would need to talk to senators and assembly members. In addition, I had the handouts about the issues and talking points, which really helped me to prepare for advocacy day in advance. Once I arrived in Albany on March 7, 2017, every student dressed professionally and met with Senator …show more content…

I handed out information about the topics that we were going to discuss with him in a folder. During meeting, I discussed the topic; coordinated health care systems. I would like assemblyman, Andrew Raia, to support of S. 4125 by Senator LaValle and A.1943 by Assembly member Peoples-Stokes in order to be passed. This bill is about the legislation to change the current corporation laws so that many health professionals can incorporate together including MDs because the current corporation laws in the New York make it impossible for many health care professionals to jointly partner with each other, especially with doctors in developing comprehensive health care delivery systems. This bill would allow physicians freely to join own healthcare practices with other health service providers in order to improve patient care and reduce healthcare costs. A coalition of 15 health care professions, including OT strongly support this legislation. In addition, this bill would not mandate that a physician own a practice with any other professionals, but would allow such physicians and other health care professionals to be partners in the integrated systems of health care. The assemblyman took the notes when I presented him the information and agreed to look into the matter further. It was a successful advocacy

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