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Our Mission: By amplifying diverse lived experiences and patient-generated ideas for change, the Center for Patient Partnerships transforms healthcare to prioritize the well-being of patients, families and communities. Our interdisciplinary approach combines experiential education, action research, advocacy and systems change.

Center for Physical Therapy and Exercise (CPTE) has been a trusted provider of expert physical therapy in Southern New Hampshire for over 30 years. With a commitment to evidence-based care and compassionate treatment, we help patients move better, recover faster, and live healthier lives. We specialize in general orthopedics, pelvic health, sports medicine, vestibular, and aquatic therapy, delivering personalized, hands-on care that achieves real results. Our sports medicine program supports athletes at every level, and we are proud to partner with leading physicians, healthcare providers, and local high schools to promote injury prevention and peak performance. With 8 locations and growing, CPTE is more than just a physical therapy practice—we are a trusted healthcare partner. Our dedicated team of clinicians thrives in a supportive, growth-focused environment, ensuring both patients and professionals reach their full potential. CPTE is a proud member of Fusion Physical Therapy Partners—a network of independent, PT-owned practices— and remains committed to clinical excellence, innovation, and patient-centered care.

The Center for Practical Bioethics is a nonprofit, free-standing and independent organization nationally recognized for its work. Since 1984, the Center has helped patients, families, healthcare professionals, policymakers and corporate leaders grapple with ethically complex issues in medicine and research.

 Our mission - to raise and respond to ethical issues in health and healthcare - requires us to be proactive. To call attention to ethical issues and to develop programs, policies and publications that address them and achieve common ground. The results? Reasoned, real-world responses to ethically complex situations and, ultimately, improved health outcomes and peace of mind. 

The Center's work is led by staff representing multiple disciplines and a variety of expertise and supported by a committed Board of Directors. Focus areas in 2021 include: ETHICS EDUCATION & CONSULTATION - Services include: bioethics education for clinicians and students; ethics consultation services in hospitals and health systems, and ethics guidance in response to calls from individuals to policy leaders. We also lead the KC Regional Ethics Committee Consortium, present community lectures and symposia, and publish and archive a Bioethics Library of 4,000 items that receive 750,000 pageviews/year. ADVANCE CARE PLANNING & SERIOUS ILLNESS - The Center helps thousands each year to prepare for the uncertainties of advancing illness and to make their end-of-life wishes known through advance care planning. We are also building coalitions and training providers across Missouri and Kansas in adoption of a form that translates patient goals of care into physician orders that follow the patient. EMERGING ISSUES AND SYSTEMS CHANGE - Current focus areas: Population Health & Deliberative Democracy, Artificial Intelligence, and PAINS-KC.

Our mission is to help all people - women, men, and children - to live free from violence and abuse. The Center for Prevention of Abuse (CFPA) is the only agency in the state of Illinois to provide combined, comprehensive free and confidential services to women, men and children, of all ages, who have been affected by domestic violence, sexual assault/abuse, human trafficking, or elder abuse. CFPA also provides Adult Protective Services to disabled individuals, between the ages of 18-59, who have been affected by abuse. Additionally, CFPA provides school based prevention education to nearly 36,000 students annually, with programs on body safety, anti-bullying, conflict resolution, and healthy relationships. CFPA has two domestic violence shelters in Peoria and Pekin, offices in the Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford County Courthouses to assist with Orders of Protection and facilitates an abuser re-education classes are offered in another Peoria office. Medical advocates are available 24/7 to respond to victims of sexual assault and/or domestic violence who obtain medical treatment in the emergency departments of area hospitals. Annually, CFPA serves more than 5,000 individuals seeking peace.

Based on the proven principles of Reform Governance® developed by school board veteran Don McAdams and described in his book What School Boards Can Do, our dynamic training and consulting program will help your school district meet the education challenges of the 21st century. It will also help improve the relationships among your board members, superintendent, and community leaders, while increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of board governance. The mission of the Center for Reform of School Systems is to teach board-superintendent teams how to transform their districts for high student achievement – because every community deserves a great school district.