Incontinence Resources & Organizations

Across the U.S. there are more than a dozen organizations dedicated to helping you treat and manage leakage. From product recommendations to treatments and beyond, these organizations will empower you with resources, information, and support.

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) – Founded in 1951, ACOG is the premier professional membership organization dedicated to the improvement of women's health.

American Health Care Association (AHCA)/ National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) – A non-profit federation of affiliate state health organizations, together representing more than 13,500 non-profit and for-profit nursing facilities, assisted living, developmentally-disabled, and subacute care providers that care for approximately one million elderly and disabled individuals each day.

American Urological Association (AUA) – Founded in 1902, the AUA is a premier urologic association whose mission is to promote the highest standards of urological clinical care through education, research, and the formulation of health care policy.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – The CDC fights disease and encourages communities and citizens to do the same.

Cleveland Clinic – One of the largest and most respected hospitals in the country, the Cleveland Clinic is a nonprofit, multispecialty, academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education.

Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) – Founded in the late 1970s, Family Caregiver Alliance is the first community-based nonprofit organization in the country to address the needs of families and friends providing long-term care for loved ones at home.

Healthcare.gov – The official site of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Health Industry Distributor Association (HIDA) – The trade association representing medical products distributors within today's complex healthcare supply chain.

International Continence Society (ICS) – With over 3,000 members, the ICS is a thriving society of urologists, uro-gynecologists, physiotherapists, nurses, scientists, and researchers with a focus on continence and pelvic floor disorders.

Kaiser Family Foundation – Kaiser is a non-profit organization focusing on national health issues and the U.S. role in global health policy, developing and running its own policy analysis, journalism, and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with major news organizations.

Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA) – The leading national trade association focused solely on Medicaid health plans, working on behalf of 135 commercial and nonprofit plans that serve more than 31 million Medicaid enrollees in 40 states.

Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) – Offering help with common policies and procedures for DHS partners and providers, including links to manuals, bulletins, administrative updates, grants, and requests for proposals.

National Association for Continence (NAFC) – A national, private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of people with incontinence, voiding dysfunction, and related pelvic floor disorders through public education and advocacy about the causes, prevention, diagnosis, treatments, and management alternatives for incontinence.

National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) – Jointly sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the CDC, NDEP works with partners at the federal, state, and local levels to improve the treatment and outcomes for people with diabetes, promote early diagnosis, and prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Simons Foundation – With a mission to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences, the Simons Foundation supports research by making grants to individual investigators and their projects through academic institutions, and conducting scientific research in-house with teams of top computational scientists.