Join Us for a Powerful Conversation on Equitable & Accessible Healthcare
Ensuring Health Care is Equitable, Accessible, and Competent for the Disability Community
At just nine years old, Chanda Hinton's life changed forever. Her experience navigating healthcare with a long-term physical disability led her to a mission: ensuring individuals with disabilities have access to equitable, competent, and integrative healthcare.
In this inspiring webinar, Chanda will share her journey and discuss:
- The importance of integrative therapies (acupuncture, massage, PT, chiropractic, and more) for individuals with disabilities.
- Barriers to equitable healthcare access—and how to overcome them.
- The role of disability-competent care in improving quality of life and long-term health outcomes.
- How she founded The Chanda Center for Health, a groundbreaking organization providing accessible, integrative healthcare.
Movement is life for those living with physical disabilities. Join us for this vital conversation about ensuring healthcare is proactive, inclusive, and accessible for all.
Reserve your spot today!
Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM MST
Speaker:
Chanda Hinton
Chanda Hinton Leichtle has been paralyzed below the chest since age 9, when an accidental shooting severed her spinal cord. Hinton Leichtle and her sister, Crystal Hinton, established the nonprofit Chanda Plan Foundation in 2005 after Hinton Leichtle experienced significant health improvements through the use of integrative therapies for symptoms caused by a spinal cord injury.
The Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life for people with physical disabilities by providing direct access to integrative therapies to treat symptoms of spinal cord injuries, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, spina bifida and brain injuries. The results of this integrated approach are reduced pain and need for pain medication, lessened time spent at medical visits, and increased hours engaged in community and work.
The Foundation also creates systemic change to increase access to integrative therapies, lower health care costs and improve health outcomes for persons with physical disabilities who rely on Medicaid. In 2009 the Foundation worked with policymakers to pass the Spinal Cord Injury Medicaid Waiver, which is evaluating the efficacy of acupuncture, massage and chiropractic services and the consequential cost savings for persons with spinal cord injuries in Colorado.