Vision
The vision of the Heart Failure Society of America is a world of healthier lives for those touched by heart failure.
Mission
The mission of HFSA is to improve lives affected by heart failure through education, collaboration, and innovation.
Strategic Plan 2025-2027
GOAL: Patient and Caregiver Engagement. Activate HFSA’s patient and caregiver members. Create a multi-pronged year-round community of heart failure providers, patients and corporations
Objective 1: Identify opportunities for engaged patient and caregiver advocates (2025)
- Work with patients and caregivers to incorporate their ideas on how they would like to be involved as patient and caregiver advocates
- Work with major federal government agencies of importance to heart failure to identify government panels seeking patient participation, including process for applying for participation
- Work with HFSA corporate partners to identify corporate panels seeking patient participation, including process for applying for participation
- Work with cardiology organizations (ACC, AHA, AAHFN, and others) on volunteer opportunities at their association for patients, including process for applying for participation
- METRIC
- Development of database of opportunities for patient and caregiver advocates
Objective 2: Develop programming on becoming an officially designated HFSA patient and caregiver advocate (2026)
- Identify external consultant with expertise in patient and caregiver advocacy program development to work with HFSA staff and the HFSA Patient Committee
- Develop patient and caregiver advocacy program, including formal designation of patients and caregivers as official “HFSA Patient and Caregiver Advocate”
- Seek corporate funding for the development phase of this goal
- METRICS
- Development of HFSA Patient and Caregiver Advocate Program
- Raise enough corporate funds to pay for the development of the new program and the implementation of the program in 2027
Objective 3: Increase the number of officially designated HFSA patient and caregiver advocates (2027)
- Beginning with a baseline of zero, establish a specific number of patient and caregiver advocates for year one of the HFSA Patient and Caregiver Advocate Program
- Implement the HFSA Patient and Caregiver Advocate Program
- METRIC
- Achieve the numerical target for patients and caregivers becoming an official HFSA Patient Advocate
Questions?
For additional information about our strategic plan or process, please contact HFSA staff at [email protected] or 301-312-8635.