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Fact Sheet: Advocacy Priorities for Fall 2022

America’s hospitals and health systems continue to deal with the difficult challenges of high inflation and ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, hospitals are facing significant increases in costs of labor from workforce shortages, drugs, equipment and supplies (including food and energy costs) that are threatening their stability and ability to provide access to high quality health care services. The AHA has developed resources that hospital leaders can use to advocate on these important issues.

AHA Statement to “Flatlining Care: Why Immigrants Are Crucial to Bolstering Our Health Care Workforce” Hearing

Foreign-trained nurses and doctors do not displace American workers. Instead they play critical roles in ensuring the health of the communities our hospitals serve. They are highly qualified and required to meet our nation’s standards for education, English fluency and state licensure.
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AHA to CMS: Proposed Rule Risks Weakening CLIA’s High Regulatory Standards

The AHA letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, cautioning against softening standards designed to maintain the safety and quality of laboratory testing in the U.S., including those regulating the professionals who staff the nation’s Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments-certified labs.
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Senate Leadership Urged to Reauthorize Program to Retain Needed Physicians

The AHA joined 62 other national organizations in urging leaders of the Senate Judiciary committee to pass the bipartisan Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act before the end of this legislative session.
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House Leadership Urged to Reauthorize Program to Retain Needed Physicians

The AHA joined 62 other national organizations in urging leaders of the House Judiciary committee to pass the bipartisan Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act before the end of this legislative session.
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AHA Voices Support for the Travel Nursing Agency Transparency Study Act

AHA letter to Representatives Gregory Murphy, M.D. and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D. voicing support for their bill, the ravel Nursing Agency Transparency Study Act.
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AHA Releases Next Section of Workforce Guide Focused on Data and Technology

The AHA released section two of a three-part series that offers immediate and longer term strategies to help hospital and health system leaders navigate workforce challenges and opportunities.