The Empowered Patient Coalition provides resources enabling patients to take control of their medical treatments.

AdvocateDirectory.org is a comprehensive listing of grassroots, nonprofit, and other websites broadly related to patient safety and quality. It is a product of years of networking and research by individuals who reached out to each other, shared their personal - and often tragic - stories of challenges with the medical system and who collaborated to function as the very first grassroots advocates calling for improvements in safety, quality and compassion in healthcare. 

The community represented by AdvocateDirectory.org is not necessarily the one that people often think of when they hear the term “patient advocacy.”  These are not, for the most part, organizations focused on specific illnesses or groups supported by big medical or pharmaceutical corporations. The organizations and individuals listed here are generally people whose mission relates to the improvement of quality and transparency in healthcare, or the provision of services or resources that improve the safety of individual patients. 

www.advocatedirectory.org