New Organization: AUDIENT - The Alliance for Accessible Hearing Care for low income populations

AUDIENT is a new program of the Northwest Lions Foundation for Sight& Hearing designed to improve hearing care nationwide and worldwide. AUDIENT was established as a hearing care alliance bringing together manufacturers, hearing health care professionals, patients and other related for- profit and not-for-profit groups. Our goal is to address hearing health care disparities and improve the lives of millions in this country who don’t have access to hearing care.

The AUDIENT mechanism for improving hearing care access is twofold: 1) increase access to quality hearing aid products; and 2) encourage the development of a framework of quality hearing care services for determining income qualification and hearing aid candidacy, for the fitting of appropriate amplification devices. Northwest Lions Foundation for Sight & Hearing has a broad global vision of expanding the AUDIENT process into developing countries, so that accessible, quality, hearing health care can be introduced to benefit individuals in need of hearing care around the world. The Northwest Lions Foundation for Sight & Hearing is a not for profit 501 (C) 3, and all revenues from the AUDIENT Alliance will be directed back into developing its charitable global mission.

For more information, visit http://www.audientalliance.org/index.htm.