Make a difference join ANA’s Health Care Reform Team
In an open letter to Congress, Dr. Cipriano urges legislators to leverage nurses’ knowledge, skills, and abilities to help bring order to a chaotic healthcare system.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 provides many benefits.
To achieve higher quality of care and help transform our healthcare system, we need to don our customized tool belts, get to work, and be willing to abandon the outdated methods of the past.
Nurses must step up and become a primary force in reshaping the
nation’s healthcare system.
As she ends her term as ANA President, Rebecca Patton urges nurses to demonstrate their leadership and help make the provisions of the new healthcare reform act a reality.
Let’s continue advocating to meet healthcare needs.
The 112th Congress faces critical decisions on issues affecting healthcare
providers and patients. With so much at stake, now is the time to touch base
with your congressional representatives and ask them to support key legislation.
The Republicans now control the House of Representatives. No matter what policy objectives either party tries to enact, ANA will continue to ensure that the voice of nursing is heard in Congress.
ANA recently cohosted a Senate Nursing Caucus briefing to present final results from the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, and participated in a healthcare reform conference call with Michelle Obama.
By meeting in-person with their congressional representatives, nurses can garner support for the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act, which would allow advanced practice nurses to order home health services under Medicare.
To mark the 2-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, ANA took part in a celebration recognizing the law’s patient protections.
Find out how the Affordable Care Act is reforming health care and how it could affect your practice.
Partnership for Patients brings together providers,
hospitals, patients, and government to reduce
preventable hospital-acquired conditions and 30-dayhospital readmissions.
Care coordination: Nurses lead the way.
ANA has joined the Partnership for Patients to improve patient safety.
Our editor-in-chief discusses the importance of population health.
Learn how these exchanges will work.
Our editor-in-chief discusses the upcoming insurance requirement related to the Affordable Care Act and emphasizes the need for nurses to be knowledgeable about the requirements so they can help friends, family, and patients navigate the health insurance marketplace.
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