The Mission of the AUDIENT Program

AUDIENT is a national nonprofit hearing care alliance bringing together hearing health care professionals, suppliers, and related groups with the common goal of providing access to quality hearing aids and related care for low income hearing impaired people.

The Northwest Lions Foundation for Sight & Hearing (NLFSH) designed and developed the AUDIENT Alliance after many years experience of coordinating the activities of the Lions hearing aid recycling program for the Pacific Northwest. A committee of nationally recognized hearing care professionals advised the NLFSH during the development stage. The vision of the NLFSH is to be a global leader of innovative sight and hearing services creating humanitarian benefit. NLFSH is a not for profit 501(c)(3), and all reserves from the AUDIENT Alliance will be directed back into developing its charitable global mission.

AUDIENT is encouraging the accessibility of hearing care through a network of dedicated hearing health care providers in the USA. AUDIENT sees the each member of the network as a hearing care professional dedicated to supporting those in need of quality hearing care in their community. AUDIENT serves as a third party administrator by performing the income qualification, collecting the funds from the patient as agent of the provider, managing the database of outcome measures from each patient. Costs and pricing are designed to be reasonable for both patients and providers of care.

updated May 13, 2008