The International Hyperbaric Medical Association (IHMA) is a society for medical professionals and persons who wish to be affiliated with hyperbaric medicine.  

 

The Association's mission is to improve public health by: implementing high ethical and scientific standards for hyperbaric medicine; promoting sound hyperbaric research and treatment protocols; educating the medical community, the general public, decision makers and policy experts about the benefits of hyperbaric medicine and adjunctive therapies; and working to make hyperbaric medicine more universally available and affordable. The IHMA represents physicians, medical professionals and consumers in affairs related to insurance company and government health-care policies related to hyperbaric medicine.

 

The International Hyperbaric Medical Association Foundation (IHMA FND) was established to improve public health by disseminating scientific knowledge, promoting, sponsoring, and conducting research into hyperbaric medicine and adjunctive therapies, educating the medical community and the general public about the benefits of hyperbaric medicine and related therapies, educating and training medical professionals, and assisting individuals in obtaining treatment.

 

   Mission Statement

It is the mission of the International Hyperbaric Medical Association to make available, in every hospital and clinic in the nation, hyperbaric medical treatments for each and every human malady that oxygen can help heal.  By submitting diabetic foot wounds to Medicare for a new national coverage determination in 2001, our organization effectively doubled the number of hyperbaric centers by 2011.  Soon we expect additional indications to triple the treatment berth capacity in the nation and expect half of all hospitals to have hyperbaric centers over the next 10 years.  IHMA and IHMF's policies, practices and scientific proofing of HBOT treatment will be key to causing these changes to happen.

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