01.01 Mission Statement
The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians promotes and supports Louisiana’s family physicians in providing excellent health care, service and leadership.
Authority Note: Approved as Action of the BOD 2015; reaffirmed BOD 2019
01.02 Vision Statement
Advocacy – To preserve and strengthen the leadership of family medicine
Practice Support – To provide support to members in fulfilling their practice and career goals
Education – To provide high quality education for family physicians in all practice styles
Membership & Communications – To ensure relationship with members is relevant, valued and communicated
Operations – To maintain a strong, sustainable Academy accountable for supporting the membership
Authority Note: Approved as Action of the BOD 2015; reaffirmed BOD 2019
01.03 Privacy Policy
The LAFP recognizes that members’ personal email addresses and other identifiers are valued as individual assets. As such, LAFP seeks to protect its members from a diminished value of those assets by prohibiting the selling or sharing of personal information to any competing organization or other outside parties for use on activities not sanctioned by or in furtherance of attainment of LAFP goals and objectives, at the discretion of the Board of Directors.
Authority Note: Approved as Action of the BOD 2015, reaffirmed BOD 2019
01.04 Free Speech and Civil Discourse Policy
The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians unequivocally commits to truly open discourse, debate, exchange of ideas, and argument.
The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians unequivocally commits to a culture which recognizes the inherent dignity and worth of all its members, which resolves that freedom of expression and civility must coexist, and where those who disagree will do so without enmity.
The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians unequivocally commits to the principle that dissenting and unpopular voices must be afforded the opportunity to be heard.
The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians unequivocally commits that members of the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians of different faiths, philosophies, and persuasions may speak their minds and honor their deepest convictions without fear of punishment or retaliation.
The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians unequivocally commits that the mere exposure to ideas that some may find offensive is not an act of violence or hatred, nor is the expression of opposition to any such ideas an act of violence or hatred.
The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians unequivocally commits that ideological demonization of opponents to block debate and to silence disagreement in the proceedings of the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians is unprofessional conduct subject to appropriate disciplinary action.
The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians unequivocally commits that defamation, obscenity, intimidation, threats, and incitement to violence, have no place in the proceedings of the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians, and if exhibited are unprofessional conduct subject to appropriate disciplinary action
Authority Note: (GAR1-2024)
01.05 Social Media Policy
Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians (LAFP) has opened publicly facing pages on social media sites for viewing content and/or videos and posting comments related to LAFP and its members. These social media sites include but are not limited to various blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, hereinafter referred to as “Social Media Sites”. By accessing, viewing and/or posting any content related directly or indirectly to LAFP on any Social Media Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the following terms of use. Your engagement with any LAFP Social Media Site constitutes acceptance of this Policy.
1. As a guest to any LAFP Social Media Site, you agree that you will not: violate any local, state, federal and international laws and regulations, including but not limited to copyright and intellectual property rights laws regarding any content that you send or receive via this Policy; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that is unlawful, disruptive, threatening, profane, abusive, harassing, embarrassing, tortuous, defamatory, obscene, libelous, or is an invasion of another's privacy, is hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable as solely determined in LAFP’s discretion; impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party; transmit (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising (including advertising of non LAFP services or products), promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes" or any other form of solicitation; transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that contains software viruses, worms, disabling code, or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; harass another; or collect or store, or attempt to collect or store, personal data about third parties without their knowledge or consent; or to share confidential pricing information of any party.
2. LAFP reserves the right to monitor, prohibit, restrict, block, suspend, terminate, delete, or discontinue your access to any Social Media Site, at any time, without notice and for any reason in its sole discretion. LAFP may remove, delete, block, filter or restrict by any other means any materials in LAFP’s sole discretion. You understand and agree that LAFP may disclose your communications and activities with LAFP in response to lawful requests by governmental authorities, including Patriot Act requests, judicial orders, warrants or subpoenas, or for the protection of LAFP rights. You agree that in the event LAFP exercises any of its rights hereunder for any reason, LAFP shall have no liability to you.
3. By posting any content on any Social Media Site, you grant to LAFP the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, publish, display such content and the right to create derivative works from your content, edit or modify such content and use such content for any LAFP purpose.
4. You shall defend, indemnify, and hold LAFP and its corporate affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, successors and assigns harmless from and against, and shall promptly reimburse them for, any and all losses, claims, damages, settlements, costs, and liabilities of any nature whatsoever (including reasonable attorneys' fees) to which any of them may become subject arising out of, based upon, as a result of, or in any way connected with, your posting of any content to a Social Media Site, any third party claims of infringement or any breach of this Policy.
5. You expressly acknowledge that you assume all responsibility related to the security, privacy, and confidentiality risks inherent in sending and/or receiving any content via the internet and/or Social Media Sites. By its very nature, a website, Social Media Site, and/or the internet cannot be absolutely protected against intentional or malicious intrusion attempts. LAFP does not control the third-party sites and/or the internet over which you may choose to send confidential personal or health information or other content and, therefore, LAFP does not warrant safeguard against any such interceptions or compromises to your information. When posting any content on a Social Media Site, you should think carefully about your own privacy in disclosing detailed or private information about yourself and your family.
Please note that this policy may be updated at any time without notice, and each time a user accesses a Social Media Site, the policy will govern usage effective upon engagement. To remain in compliance, LAFP recommends that you review the Policy, as well as the any other website policies, at regular intervals. By continuing to post any content after such new terms are posted, you accept and agree to any and all such modifications to this Policy.
Authority Note: Approved as Action of the BOD 2015; reaffirmed BOD 2019
01.06 Strategic Plan
The LAFP completes a Strategic Plan at a minimum of every 3 years and the implementation, and the goals accomplishments of that plan are presented to the Board of Directors at each of their regularly scheduled meetings.
Authority Note: Approved as Action of the BOD 2000; reaffirmed BOD 2009; Edited and approved by BOD 2015; reaffirmed BOD 2019
