The award is presented to organizations that demonstrate success in membership recruitment, advocacy and organizational development. COS was recognized for efforts to increase membership and support tort reform. The organization was able to increase membership by 40 percent since 2008 and expects this increase to add approximately $15,000 to its annual budget.
COS also joined with a state medical society to preserve the state’s current limits on noneconomic damages payable under medical liability settlements and currently participates in the statewide patient Safety and Professional Accountability work group. COS also led efforts to defeat a bill in state legislature that would have allowed chiropractors to inject prescriptive homeopathic substances and podiatrists to perform muscle transfers in the lower leg, according to the report.
COS President Theodore Clarke, MD, accepted the award.
Read the report on the Colorado Orthopaedic Society.
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