Cold Ischemia Foundation · Professional Development

Care Partner Advocacy
Certificate Program

Eight modules. 72 quiz questions. A final examination. Built on federal regulatory frameworks, documented policy failures, and the structural analysis that no one else is doing.

$150
One-time enrollment
Lifetime access
Enroll Now — $150
Before You Enroll — Be Honest With Yourself

What This Certificate Is.
And What It Is Not.

This program awards a Certificate of Completion issued by the Cold Ischemia Foundation. We believe in transparency — so here is exactly what that means.

What You Receive
  • ✓A Certificate of Completion from the Cold Ischemia Foundation — signed, dated, printable, and shareable.
  • ✓Demonstrated mastery of care partner advocacy, federal regulatory frameworks, transplant medicine policy, pharmaceutical capture analysis, and structural change methodology — verified through 72 quiz questions and a 25-question final examination.
  • ✓A policy education that most credentialed healthcare professionals have never received. The content in this program is not taught in nursing school, medical school, or any standard healthcare administration curriculum.
  • ✓The analytical framework, regulatory citations, and advocacy tools to walk into a congressional office, a CMS comment period, or a transplant center meeting — and be taken seriously.
What This Is Not
  • —This is not an accredited certification. It is not approved by ANCC, ACPE, ACNM, or any professional accrediting body. We are a grassroots advocacy foundation, not an academic institution.
  • —This program does not award continuing education credits (CEUs, CME, CNE, or equivalent). It cannot be submitted to a licensing board for renewal requirements.
  • —This is not a substitute for legal or clinical training. It is policy education for advocates — not a license to practice law, medicine, or any regulated profession.
Why This Program Exists

Why Is It Worth $150?

Because what you do not know is being used against you. The systems that exploit care partners depend on their invisibility. The institutions that profit from unpaid labor depend on that labor staying unnamed. This program names everything.

No Conflicts of Interest
Zero Pharmaceutical Funding
The Cold Ischemia Foundation accepts no pharmaceutical, device manufacturer, or dialysis corporation funding. What you learn here is not filtered through the interests of anyone who profits from the status quo.
Federal-Source Grounded
Named Citations. Real Regulations.
Every structural claim in this program cites a specific federal source — GAO, OIG, CMS, HRSA, NASEM, CFR. This is not opinion. It is the documented record of how the system actually works, cited to the page.
Built by Experience
Three Transplants. One Foundation.
Jeff Parke is a three-time kidney transplant recipient. The Cold Ischemia Foundation was built from decades of navigating the system as a patient and as a care partner. This is not academic theory — it is structural analysis born from lived consequence.
Genuinely Revelatory
What Coursera Doesn't Teach
No LMS platform teaches how pharmaceutical capture silences patient advocates, how dialysis duration functions as informal gatekeeping, or how to build a multi-agency federal complaint strategy. This curriculum exists nowhere else.
Immediate Application
Tools You Use Tomorrow
The Complaint Letter Machine, federal regulatory citation frameworks, congressional advocacy templates, and coalition vetting criteria in this program are functional advocacy tools — not academic exercises.
Structural Accountability
Change the System, Not Just Your Story
Most patient education teaches you to navigate the system. This program teaches you to challenge it — at the regulatory, legislative, and institutional level. It is the difference between surviving exploitation and dismantling it.
Full Curriculum

Eight Modules.
No Filler.

Each module includes tabbed content sections, interactive quizzes with immediate explanatory feedback, federal regulatory references, case studies, and data tables. A 25-question final examination covers all modules. 80% required to pass.

01
The Invisible Labor Crisis
53M+ unpaid care partners, clinical-grade labor vs. informal support, the $470B federal blind spot, RAISE Act analysis.
45 min · 9 Qs
02
Transplant Medicine: Structure & Policy
NOTA 1984, OPTN/UNOS framework, cold ischemia time, geographic disparities, informal blacklisting, the social support trap.
60 min · 9 Qs
03
Federal Regulatory Frameworks
42 CFR Parts 482, 494, 121 — CMS Conditions of Participation, HRSA oversight, HHS OIG enforcement, complaint pathways.
60 min · 8 Qs
04
Healthcare Policy Landscape
Medicare ESRD benefit, ACA provisions, ETC Model cost-transfer analysis, value-based care exploitation, pending legislation.
65 min · 8 Qs
05
Pharmaceutical Capture of Patient Advocacy
Capture mechanisms, documented NKF/AKF conflicts, the Sunshine Act gap, how captured organizations silence effective advocates.
45 min · 8 Qs
06
Filing Federal Complaints & Enforcement
Multi-agency complaint architecture, CMS/OIG/HRSA/OPTN filing mechanics, writing actionable complaints with CFR citations.
50 min · 8 Qs
07
Care Partner Rights & Compensation Models
FMLA, ADA, Medicaid HCBS waivers, Germany's Pflegeversicherung, VA PCAFC model, the economic case for compensation.
45 min · 8 Qs
08
Building Structural Change
Reactive vs. structural advocacy, congressional strategy, coalition vetting, media strategy, measuring impact.
45 min · 8 Qs
★
Final Examination
25 comprehensive questions across all modules. 80% required. Upon passing, your Certificate of Completion is generated immediately.
25 Qs · 80%

The system profits from
what you don't know.

Care partners deserve more than silence.
They deserve the knowledge to demand structural change.

$150
One-time enrollment
Lifetime access · Certificate of Completion
Enroll Now — $150
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Cold Ischemia Foundation · Professional Development
Care Partner Advocacy
Certificate Program
A rigorous, policy-grounded certification covering care partner exploitation, transplant medicine structure, federal regulatory frameworks, and healthcare policy — built for advocates who refuse to be ignored.
8
Core Modules
6+
Hours of Content
72
Quiz Questions
CFR
Federal Source Citations
Cold Ischemia Foundation · Ellenton, Florida
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has successfully completed the
Care Partner Advocacy
Certificate Program
This certificate recognizes demonstrated mastery of care partner exploitation frameworks, transplant medicine policy, federal regulatory systems, healthcare policy landscape, pharmaceutical capture of advocacy organizations, and structural change methodology.

Issued by the Cold Ischemia Foundation in recognition of commitment to structural advocacy on behalf of the unseen half of chronic illness.
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