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Mission, Vision and Purpose
Mission and Vision
Collaboration and alliance with other medical societies, citizen's
groups and organizations whose concern is the health of the Texas
citizens.
Texas Orthopaedic Association looks to the future with goals of
Citizens having understanding of preventative and maintenance of
musculoskeletal health.
Purpose
The purpose of this organization is to:
- Foster cooperation between orthopaedic surgeons in Texas
- Encourage scientific, educational, and charitable endeavors
which will promote and advance the science and art of
orthopaedic surgery
- Evaluate state and national health policy activities as they
relate to orthopaedics in Texas
- Maintain high professional, ethical, and moral standards in the
practice of orthopaedic surgery in the State of Texas
The members of TOA work to ensure the quality of patient care by:
- Developing workers' compensation guidelines and ground rules,
monitoring and reporting, to the Texas Legislature, problems
with allied health groups unlawfully expanding their scope of
practice to the possible detriment of public health
- Organizing a physicians' grassroots effort, which is working in
tangent with the TOA legislative advocate towards influencing
Texas politics on behalf of orthopaedists and their patients
- Serving as medical information resources to state regulatory
agencies, public officials, and the Texas Legislature
- Serving as liaisons to subspecialty groups, AAOS, TMA and
AMA
- Building coalitions with other physicians to insure patient
access to specialists, providing patients with proper and timely
treatment in a "managed care" environment, promoting tort
reform and insurance reforms
- Providing educational and socioeconomic programming which
impacts your practice
- Collecting and disseminating information on outcome studies
- Distributing information to the public regarding musculoskeletal
conditions that will have a salutary effect on the public well being
- Increasing trauma funding and networking with trauma physicians
- Promoting a better understanding between doctors and community leaders through
the mini-internship program
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