Alternative Medicine - Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Minnesota Integrative Care Advocates is a group of concerned Minnesotans dedicated to integrating all aspects of the healing process, encompassing conventional, complementary, and alternative practices, to the marketplace so that all people have unencumbered access. We are a grassroots lobbying group. We network, educate and disseminate information on how to support the innate healing process and how to access ways to do that.Our Vision:In recognition of the body's innate ability to heal and that healing is a multi-faceted experience, and in the interest of advancing the true health and wellbeing of all Minnesota citizens and to create a truly integrated health care delivery system, MICA will work legislatively to remove unnecessary barriers to collaboration between licensed and unlicensed health care practitioners and their patients and clients. Specifically, we will work To protect consumers' freedom of health care choices and to allow them access to the full range of health care options. To protect physicians and other licensed practitioners from board over-reach if they choose to practice Complementary and Alternative Practices (CAP). To allow physicians and other licensed practitioners the freedom to refer a patient to an unlicensed Complementary and Alternative Practitioner if they believe it is in the patient's best interest.