Testimony By Ronald J. Hunsicker, D. Min., President/CEO National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers Before The Institute of Medicine

July 13, 2004 Testimony by Ronald Hunsicker, President/CEO National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers before The Institute of Medicine The Institute of Medicine has identified six aims for the delivery of high quality health care. Those aims were first introduced in the Crossing the Quality Chasm and include: safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable. The National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers supports those overall aims for a quality health care delivery system and urges the IOM to work to include Addictive Disease into the total understanding of a health care delivery system. We further urge the IOM . . .