The Advocates for Responsible Care is a non-profit organization that functions as an alliance of health care professionals, patient advocates, and human rights specialists dedicated to the cause of reducing cultural incompetency and health care delivery disparity.
Board of Directors
Dorothy Leone-Glasser, RN, HCC
dlg@wisdomofwellnessproject.com
Dorothy Leone-Glasser, RPN, HHC, has lived with systemic lupus for over thirty-five years. As a result, she has overcome two forms of cancer, disabling arthritis, kidney failure, a coma, heart attack, and two strokes. During this time she graduated from a wheelchair to crutches to ultimately walking with her own two feet. Between the ages of 20 and 37, Dorothy received three death sentences imposed by her doctors. Today she is not only alive, but she is living well and paving the way to the future of wellness as President and CEO of the Advocates for Responsible Care (ARxC), a non-profit wellness and advocacy organization.
As Dorothy drove her wheelchair, she also drove her career. Dorothy’s philosophy, “Illness lives in the mind, plays out in the body, and comes to a place of peace in the spirit of wellness” was the compelling energy behind her success.
She earned degrees in counseling, nursing, and theology to master the art of the mind, body, and spirit connection. Although this holistic approach to healthcare is popular today, for many years Dorothy has been a leader in its implementation through her private practice in counseling and public speaking. Empowering others with her personal philosophy and raising a strong voice of advocacy, Dorothy has taught countless others how to “live wise and live well.”
As she simultaneously conquered her personal challenges and enlightened individuals with chronic illness, Dorothy also designed and delivered the life-style engineering technology tools that her patients needed to apply her lessons. One of these is a comprehensive integrated wellness and stress management program so aptly called, “The Coping Program®.” This program won Dorothy the Outstanding Patient-Community Service Program Award by the National Arthritis Foundation in 1990. In 1993, the Arthritis Foundation presented her with the Dorothy Day Humanitarian Award for pioneering this program. Finally, in 1998, when the Arthritis Foundation was celebrating its 50th year Anniversary, it awarded her the honor of being one of only 50 selected Heroes Living with Arthritis and appointed her one of three ambassadors representing all of the heroes nationwide. In December 2010, Dorothy received the Mundo Hispanico Award, Amigo de los Hispanos, for her work in advocating for dialysis patients who were in jeopardy of dying without dialysis treatment.
Dorothy is a hero among us. Not only for what she has endured and overcome, but also for what she has consistently and generously given to others over the years. She is a twenty-five year member of the Board of Directors at the Arthritis Foundation, Georgia Chapter. Dorothy provides advocacy consulting to numerous organizations, societies and patient groups. She facilitates an ongoing patient group STARS, that empowers its members to promote wellness and prevention practices along with being active healthcare advocates. She has published countless materials educating patients about harmonizing the mind, body and spirit. Dorothy is frequently seen and heard on TV, radio, and print media. She promotes using nutraceuticals as part of a complete wellness plan.
After completing her degrees from
On July 22, 2005, Dorothy was asked to speak to a crowd of 4,200 citizens, legislators, and community and civic leaders, at the
Once a full time wellness counselor, Dorothy is now a motivational speaker, author, media personality, and resilient healthcare advocate. She regularly holds seminars on Manifesting Wellness, Advocacy, and Supporting Internal and Environmental Health. She testifies before congressional committees and local government Boards on health care advocacy issues.
The Advocates for Responsible Care have been actively involved in advocating for full access to medications and medical care with an emphasis on reducing health disparities. The mission of ARxC is to help empower individuals to achieve their maximum wellness with a strong voice as health care advocates effectively reducing cultural incompetency and health care disparity.
Dorothy is currently writing an Advocacy and Wellness Guide. She has also developed a Georgia Wellness Initiative that will be part of the prevention and wellness incentives in a new ARxC medical insurance collective for
Lindsay Jones
Ex Officio, Legal Consultant
Lindsay R.M. Jones is the CEO and President of LINDSAY R.M. JONES, LLC. LINDSAY R.M. JONES, LLC is a consulting firm that provides consulting services to communities throughout the nation on equitable and sustainable community development. The firm assists community groups to strategically articulate and amplify their interests and concerns to ensure that they are considered in the public mediation process of community development planning. Specifically, the firm assists community groups in brokering technical assistance and consulting services to enable client communities to present factually based positions and alternative planning initiatives for consideration in the formation of transformative community solutions that transcend political, social and economic conflicts that undermine the goal of achieving equitable and sustainable community.
Lindsay is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Law School. He is a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Minnesota, in which capacity he served as an advisor to the Minnesota Attorney General on civil rights public policies. He is also a former assistant county attorney, in which capacity he represented county agencies in the areas of zoning and planning, land use and management, and government liability and immunities. Lindsay was a senior fellow and adjunct professor of law at the Institute on Race & Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School. The Institute on Race & Poverty is a nationally recognized think tank on smart growth policies and the impact of community development policies on socially and economically marginalized communities. In addition, to his consulting work, Lindsay is presently an adjunct professor of law at the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ira Paul Katz
Director of Corporate Networking, Events
After attending the
For several years, Ira has enjoyed staying active in current issues and events and has worked on a professional level with several state agencies, utilities and businesses. Working closing with the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Ira was instrumental in relocating several manufacturing companies to the
Ira has an extensive associate’s base in
For Ira, working for and with ARxC is personal. His father died of End Stage Renal Failure after receiving dialysis treatment for many years. Ira brings his passion and ability to work with different groups to the foray of the Advocates for Responsible Care. He has opened his home and heart to the patients and families of the Dialysis Crisis; always ready to help. Once again, he has been influential in by bringing knowledgeable and interested members to the table to assist ARxC’s new development of a best practice model for healthcare insurance. As a Board Member of ARxC, his shared excitement and enthusiasm of a realistic vision for this organization is welcomed.
