AACN's Latest Advocacy, Coalition, and Policy Efforts
April 22: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies outlining the funding requests of at least $530 million for Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs and at least $210 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025.
April 22: AACN signed onto an American Council on Education comment letter to the Department of Education requesting an extension to the comment period in order to provide the higher education community with sufficient time to analyze and respond to new financial value transparency (FVT) and gainful employment (GE) reporting requirements.
April 15: AACN signed onto a letter urging Congress to provide $420.85 million to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Environmental Health in the FY 2025.
April 1: AACN signed onto a letter urging Congress to maintain the House and Senate set-asides for midwifery and nurse-midwifery education in any final FY 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) appropriations package.
April 1: AACN signed onto a Friends of HRSA letter urging Congress to provide at least $10.5 billion for discretionary Health Resources and Services Administration programs in any final FY 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) appropriations bill.