Advocacy that educates, connects and pushes for reform.

Medical Malpractice Month — July

NMMAA helped secure the first proclamation recognizing July as Medical Malpractice Month in 2013. The observance later received recognition from additional jurisdictions and congressional attention, while law firms and advocates across the country participated in public education.

Purpose: Elevate patient voices, educate communities about preventable medical harm, encourage safer and more informed care, and connect families with accountability resources.

Continuing work: Annual educational content, community observances, professional participation, survivor recognition and practical patient-safety resources.

First Do No Harm & Knockout Medical Malpractice

NMMAA developed public-awareness campaigns involving patients, everyday citizens, advocates and public figures. The Knockout Medical Malpractice campaign included boxer and health advocate Mia St. John as a spokesperson.

Achievement: The campaigns expanded medical-malpractice awareness beyond courtrooms through public-service messaging, social media, community education and national partnerships.

Challenging Texas Damage Caps

NMMAA has maintained public education, advocacy and reform efforts concerning Texas's limit on non-economic damages in medical-malpractice cases.

Continuing work: Explain how fixed caps can disproportionately affect children, older adults, caregivers, people with disabilities and others whose losses cannot be measured primarily through wages.

Cancel the Cap

Cancel the Cap is NMMAA's national campaign addressing state laws that limit recovery after medical negligence. NMMAA's advocacy has included legislative education, coalition development and support for reform discussions, including efforts in Louisiana.

Achievement: The campaign created a shared national message while allowing advocates to address each state's different statutes and legislative process.

Restorative Justice Initiative

This initiative promotes a response to medical harm built around three principles: disclose, dialogue and reform. Families may seek truthful explanations, acknowledgement and safety improvements in addition to legal remedies.

Achievement: NMMAA broadened the accountability discussion beyond litigation alone and toward transparency, communication and prevention of repeated harm.

On the Road with NMMAA

Community workshops, health fairs, churches, town halls and information sessions bring patient-safety and accountability resources closer to the people who need them.

Achievement: NMMAA translated national advocacy into community-level education, beginning from its Texas base and expanding through partnerships.

Malpractice Diaries

Malpractice Diaries preserves the human stories behind medical harm and gives patients and families a public-awareness pathway separate from assistance intake.

Achievement: The project reduces isolation, documents recurring concerns and shows the human reasons that safety and accountability reforms remain necessary.

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President's Lifetime Achievement Award

NMMAA's long record of volunteer service and civil and social-rights advocacy has been recognized through the President's Lifetime Achievement Award.

What it represents: Sustained service, grassroots leadership and a continuing commitment to people affected by medical harm.

National Patient Resource and Routing System

NMMAA provides self-service guidance for records, timelines, evidence, complaints, nursing-home concerns, attorney preparation, patient advocacy and state-based routing.

Achievement: Visitors can receive a meaningful next step even when individualized case management or attorney representation is unavailable.

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