Mike Farley Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award!
Mike Farley was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the IPAS 2023 Fall Conference in recognition of his many years of service to Iowa PAs and to IPAS. He has been a constant source of support on PA initiatives, he could always be relied on to come through with a prompt and persuasive approach for rational PA policy especially on short notice.
During the 2023 legislative campaign to increase access to care by allowing PAs to practice autonomously, he persuaded the physician legislator on the House committee that had the PA bill (HF 424) to support it. He testified effectively at subcommittee hearings in both the House and the Senate, on the PA bill where it passed in each subcommittee with a unanimous vote. In fact when he learned that one wheelchair bound subcommittee member was thinking about voting against the bill. Mike met with him, established rapport, noting that he served as a clinical coordinator of the VA hospital spinal injury clinic. Subsequently the legislator voted for the bill in the subcommittee and in the committee and in the full House. When Mike learned that his own Senator had voted against the bill in committee, Mike provided him with correct information about the bill. And his senator voted for the bill on final passage.
Mike attended multiple legislative forums, crucially persuaded many PAs to contact their legislators, and wrote many letters to legislators about the PA bill. Without Mike’s timely and effective efforts, HF 424 might never have passed. Mike may be a retired PA but he never retired from his efforts to get better care to more people by allowing PAs to use their skills.
As Mike noted, HF424 is a great victory for patients and the PA profession. “I believe PAs practicing without needless regulations means that more people will have ready access to the high-quality care we provide. That’s huge.”
Mike Farley was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the IPAS 2023 Fall Conference in recognition of his many years of service to Iowa PAs and to IPAS. He has been a constant source of support on PA initiatives, he could always be relied on to come through with a prompt and persuasive approach for rational PA policy especially on short notice.
During the 2023 legislative campaign to increase access to care by allowing PAs to practice autonomously, he persuaded the physician legislator on the House committee that had the PA bill (HF 424) to support it. He testified effectively at subcommittee hearings in both the House and the Senate, on the PA bill where it passed in each subcommittee with a unanimous vote. In fact when he learned that one wheelchair-bound subcommittee member was thinking about voting against the bill. Mike met with him, and established rapport, noting that he served as a clinical coordinator of the VA hospital spinal injury clinic. Subsequently, the legislator voted for the bill in the subcommittee and in the committee and in the full House. When Mike learned that his own Senator had voted against the bill in committee, Mike provided him with correct information about the bill. And his senator voted for the bill on final passage.
Mike attended multiple legislative forums, crucially persuaded many PAs to contact their legislators, and wrote many letters to legislators about the PA bill. Without Mike’s timely and effective efforts, HF 424 might never have passed.
Mike may be a retired PA but he never retired from his efforts to get better care to more people by allowing PAs to use their skills.
As Mike noted, HF424 is a great victory for patients and the PA profession. “I believe PAs practicing without needless regulations means that more people will have ready access to the high-quality care we provide. That’s huge.”
