Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease
Illinois Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease Launches
Published in Law and Health Weekly, May 2nd, 2009
Stressing the major toll that chronic diseases take on the state’s health care system, a broad, bipartisan coalition of influential health care, business, faith and labor leaders today launched the Illinois Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD), a coalition committed to making chronic disease the key issue in the health care reform debate. The PFCD is led nationally by Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, the 17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006), Chairperson of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease and President of the non-profit Canyon Ranch Institute.
Dr. Carmona, one of the nation’s leaders in the fight against chronic disease, said it’s...
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