AACN's Latest Advocacy, Coalition, and Policy Efforts
December 12: AACN signed onto letters to House and Senate leadership led by Voices for Non-Opioid Choices. The letters support the passage of the Non-Opioids Prevent Addiction in the Nation (NOPAIN) for Veterans Act (H.R. 4509), which would increase veterans’ access to non-opioid pain medications.
December 11: AACN signed onto a letter led by Research!America to the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (LHHS-ED). The letter urges support of at least $1.5 billion for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) in any final Fiscal Year 2026 LHHS-ED spending bill.
December 5: AACN signed onto an American Academy of Pediatrics letter expressing concerns with the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)’s decision to downgrade recommendations for vaccinations of all newborns against hepatitis B at birth.
December 2: AACN signed onto letters from American Indian/Alaska Native Health Partners to the House and Senate supporting funding for the Indian Health Professions Account and Indian Health Service in Fiscal Year 2026.
November 14: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) letter to Congress outlining the NCC’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 appropriations requests. These include at least $303.472 million for the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs and at least $197.693 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), as outlined in the bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee-passed FY 2026 Labor, Health and Humans Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS-ED) appropriations bill.
November 5: AACN signed onto a Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition (HPNEC) letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, urging them to provide the highest possible funding levels for the Health Title VII Health Professions and Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs in FY 2026.