Membership

Membership

Join BAHCA

If you are a practicing health care advocate in the San Francisco Bay Area, we welcome your BAHCA membership.

Benefits:

  • Monthly professional development through educational programs & case study discussions
  • Networking and collegial support with local health care advocates
  • Business listing on the BAHCA website, with profile, areas of expertise, and link to your website
  • Business development support for your new or growing practice
  • Leadership opportunities by participating in BAHCA and promoting the health care advocacy profession
  • Access to BACHA resource page

Member Definition
BAHCA membership is open to all health care advocates – that is, all professionals who work on behalf of clients/patients, families, communities, and caregivers toward the goal of safe, effective, equitable, and compassionate health care for all. For example, health care advocacy professionals include:

  • Health advocates
  • Health care advocates
  • Patient advocates
  • Patient navigators
  • Community health workers
  • Community care/case managers
  • Health policy advocates
  • Volunteer health care advocates

Advocates may work independently, in a medical setting, or on behalf of communities.

Membership Fees
Bay Area Health Care Advocates has tiered-pricing consistent with our work as an equity-focused organization. We envision a membership of private, public, and volunteer health care advocates, working collaboratively to improve the health outcomes of all community members.

We invite people with access to resources to contribute more, so that Bay Area Health Care Advocates can make its membership more accessible to those with fewer resources. Nonprofits and volunteers will not be turned away for lack of resources.

Private Health Care Advocates

For independent health care advocates.

Individual: $120/year
Group: (2 people) $192/year*

Nonprofits

For community health care advocates, patient navigators, and case managers who work in nonprofit organizations.

Individual: $96/year
Group (2 people): $156/year

Please pay what feels true and just. No one is turned away for lack of funds.

Volunteer Advocates

For individual advocates who provide services to the public at no cost.

Individual: $24/year

Please pay what feels true and just. No one is turned away for lack of funds.

Policies
Membership fees are:

  • Nonrefundable
  • Prorated for the year based on the month you join
  • And then due annually in January.

Want to check us out? Come to your first meeting at no cost to you. If you have questions about membership, please email Bay Area Health Care Advocates.