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AHA letter expressing support for the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Act of 2017.
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A strong health care workforce is critical to ensuring patient access to high-quality care. However, we are concerned that, without modification, President Trump’s executive order on immigration could adversely impact patient care, education and research.
Today's final rule will have a chilling effect on hospitals' ability to seek expert advice and counsel in addressing issues related to labor organizing and collective bargaining.
The U.S. will need to hire 2.3 million new health care workers by 2025. An aging population, a rise in chronic diseases and increased behavioral health conditions contribute to the need to strategically plan for a workforce that can meet the demands of today and tomorrow. As hospitals and health systems re-deploy providers in response to new care models, the AHA helps hospitals implement strategies for workforce planning, recruitment, retention and development that best serve the needs of the community.
AHA, FAH support overturning NLRB decision that allows incumbent unions to organize in piecemeal fashion.
The AHA, ASHHRA and AONE believe that, in its current rulemaking, the Board has engaged in a process that is unwarranted, unprecedented and contrary to the administration‘s rulemaking goals by resubmitting, in essentially identical form, the Board‘s 2011 NPRM (See 76 Fed. Reg. 36,812).
The nation's hospitals annually employ 5.5 million people and create two trillion dollars in economic activity, yet some in Congress continue to threaten access to hospital services.
The American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Nurses Association (ANA) today released a new report that found up to 766,000 health care and related jobs could be lost by 2021 as a result of the 2 percent sequester of Medicare spending mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011.
An updated analysis by Tripp Umbach, a firm specializing in conducting economic impact studies, finds that an additional 83,000 jobs could be lost if the Medicare cuts to hospital care included in H.R. 3630 (legislation extending the Social Security tax holiday, unemployment insurance and the physician fix), passed by the House, are implemented.