HARBR

HARBR stands for “Healthcare Alliance for Regulatory Board Reform.”

Our primary purpose is the fair treatment of healthcare professionals in disciplinary processes.

We are are not interested in guilt or innocence. We are interested in fighting to assure that healthcare professionals are afforded their civil & human rights, the same as all citizens.

Why healthcare regulatory boards?

Healthcare regulatory boards, through their licensing functions, determine whether a healthcare professional may or may not practice. When problems or concerns arise about a licensee’s conduct or performance – investigations, disciplinary processes and penalization may follow. HARBR supports this. However, HARBR supports this conditionally. HARBR believes that these processes must be fair.

At present, healthcare regulatory boards tend to be dangerously unfair.

In fact, there is a fundamental unfairness in most of the functions of most of the healthcare regulatory boards in most of the states across the nation. The cost of this unfairness is high. It negatively affects patients, providers, and healthcare generally.

Although the healthcare regulatory boards may be assumed to put some “bad” practitioners out of business, they have also put many good practitioners out of business. When this happens, the effects can be devastating. Even without a licenses revocation, a healthcare provider with a “black mark” (right or wrong, large or small) is effectively blacklisted via national data banks and will likely never have a full or optimal practice ever again in their lives. Well trained, devoted practitioners, even in the processes leading up to penalties, are often driven into poverty and despair. Feeling helpless and hopeless, with nowhere to turn, many healthcare professionals turn to suicide.

HARBR believes this is unacceptable.

We are here to reform. We are here to help. Please continue to read, and be in contact with us.

Please contact us by ordinary email at info@harbr-usa.org.

Please include your name, your email address, the type of healthcare you practice or have practiced, the state in which you practice and a narrative about why you are contacting us (or how we might be of help to you).

We are presently working on a new contact form. We have some reason to be concerned that the messages people have been sending us have not been reaching us. Instead of contacts as we would expect, we have been getting messages which read something like, First Name: JaneDoe, Last Name: JaneDoeUL, followed by some spam-like message. We do not know whether these have been real contact attempts gone awry or if it is simply some consistently formatted type of “spam.” Either way, this is unacceptable and we are going to replace our form.

IMPORTANT: If you have reached out to us using the contact form we’d be using and never received a response, please rewrite us at info@harbr-usa.org and we will get back with you at least within one day’s time. Our apologies and deepest regrets if you’ve reached out to us without response.