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How to become a member:
sign up on line or call (508)270-4656.

Membership is open to everyone:
     This includes people with ostomies or continent diversions, family members, caregivers, members of the medical profession, and anyone interested in ostomy care and rehabilitation. Surgery is not a requirement!

As an OAB member, What Your Dues Pays For:

• Our Visitor Program provides direct and confidential support for dealing with ostomy surgery, both before and after.  Our Visitors are trained and also offer educational and informational guidebooks and materials.
• OAB's website is continually evolving, bringing you new ways to become informed, get in contact with Board Members, and opportunities to volunteer your own talents and skills.
• The OAB Bulletin, our chapter's printed quarterly; is created, designed, and edited by OAB members
• OAB offers chapter Satellite Meetings in all major suburban areas around and in Boston.
• OAB offers a monthly Peer Support Group, for newcomers and oldcomers as well.
• If you are an Active Member of OAB and UOA, you receive the UOA's quarterly, the OQ, as well as all the other benefits of belonging to UOA. 

What are the annual dues?

$40.00	Active Membership in OAB and UOA
$75.00	Donor Membership in OAB and UOA
$100.00	Patron Membership in OAB and UOA
$50.00	Professional Membership for physicians and other health professionals
$60.00	Corporate Membership
$20.00	Active Membership in OAB, without membership in UOA
	Complimentary Membership for all area RN ET WOCNurses

     All dues and contributions are tax deductible. (OAB's membership policy is that no one is ever turned away due to an inability to pay dues.)

Interested in becoming a member?
To sign up  for membership or request additional information

Or...

Call us at (508) 270-4656 (Boston area) or (800) 952-7664 ext. 4656 (outside of Boston). We'd love to hear from you!

Last updated July 14, 2003