AACN's Advocacy Efforts
December 5: AACN sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding a request for information related to the National Directory of Healthcare Providers & Services.
November 22: AACN sent a letter urging Congress to include funding for nursing education, workforce, and research in any year-end package.
October 11: AACN sent a wecome letter to Dr. Arati Prabhakar, the new Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
September 15: AACN sent a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committee outlining key academic nursing funding priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023.
September 6: AACN sent comments to the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services on CY 2023 Physician Fee Schedule.
August 18: AACN sent a welcome letter to Dr. Shereef Elnahal, the new Under Secretary for Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
August 8: AACN submitted comments to the Department of Education on Student Assistance General Provisions, Federal Perkins Loan Program, Federal Family Education Loan Program , and William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program Proposed Rule.
July 22: AACN submits comments on the Department of Health and Human Services Initiative to Strengthen Primary Health Care.
May 24: AACN submits written testimony to the House Appropriations Subcommittee outlining key academic nursing funding priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023.
May 10: AACN submits written testimony to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee outlining key academic nursing funding priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023.
April 19: AACN sent a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies outlining key academic nursing funding priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023.
March 10: AACN sent a request for information regarding national health security threats, challenges, and promising practices to help inform the development of the 2023-2026 National Health Security Strategy.
February 7: AACN sent a follow up letter reiterating our academic nursing priorities after a roundtable discussion with Secretary Becerra of the Department of Health and Human Services.
February 4: AACN sent comments on the PREVENT Pandemics Act discussion draft to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee.
January 20: AACN sent a letter welcoming the new Administrator of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
January 20: AACN sent a letter welcoming the new Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
January 19: AACN sent a letter to the Senate reiterating them to preserve and pass essential nursing provisions as the Senate considers the Build Back Better Act.
January 19: AACN sent a letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committees reiterating key academic nursing funding priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022.
AACN's Sign-Ons with Coalition Partners
December 8: AACN signed onto an ACE letter, regarding the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) plans to transition to a new enrollment management system for certifying GI bill benefits in January 2023.
December 21: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter thanking Representatives Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE-At-Large) and Young Kim (R-CA-40), as well as Senate Nursing Caucus Co-Chair, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Sen. Thomas Tillis (R-NC), and four cosponsors for introducing the National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2022 (H.R.8817/S.4844). This bipartisan legislation would offer an important step forward as we look to gather additional data on the needs within the nursing workforce.
December 7: AACN signed onto a FASHP coalition letter, urging the inclusion of robust funding for health professions education and training and loan and scholarship programs for health professions students in a final fiscal year (FY) 2023 appropriations package.
December 6: AACN signed onto a HPNEC coalition letter, urging Congress to provide at least the higher of the two funding levels from the draft House and Senate Labor-HHS-Ed spending bill for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Title VII health professions and Title VIII nursing workforce development programs for fiscal year (FY) 2023.
December 6: AACN signed onto a Research!America letter, urging Congress to secure passage of a FY23 Omnibus spending bill before the current CR expires on December 16, and to include boosted funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and our nation’s other research agencies.
December 5: AACN signed onto a Voices for Non-Opioid Choices Coalition letter, urging Congress to include the Non-Opioids Prevent Addiction in the Nation (NOPAIN) Act (S. 586/H.R. 3259) in any year-end legislative package.
December 5: AACN signed onto a letter, urging Congress to include an additional $900 million in the final negotiations on the FY’23 omnibus appropriations bill to respond to monkeypox (mpox).
December 3: AACN signed onto an AI/AN Health Partners letter, congratulating Dr. Ms. Roselyn Tso on being appointed as the Director of the Indian Health Service.
December 2: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter urging Congress to pass top legislative priorities addressing the needs of nursing education, practice, and research before the end of the 117th Congress.
December 1: AACN signed onto an APRN Workgroup comment letter, to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding a request for information related to the National Directory of Healthcare Providers & Services.
November 17: AACN signed onto an American Council on Education letter to House and Senate leadership, urging congress to pass perminent protections to Deffered Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients during the final weeks of the 117th Congress.
November 15: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees requesting at least $324.472 million for Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs and at least $208.571 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Omnibus.
November 15: AACN signed onto a Friends of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) letter, congratulating Dr. Mary Wakefield on being named to lead CDC’s structure modernization work and urging her to incorporate NCHS’ vital role and core function in CDC, HHS, and public health more broadly.
November 8: AACN signed onto an Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research letter urging Congress to swiftly finalize a fiscal year (FY) 2023 spending package that prioritizes robust investments in agencies and programs that improve the nation’s health and well-being, including funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
November 1: AACN signed onto a letter urging Congress to include additional funding in the FY 2023 funding package to respond to mpox.
October 26: AACN signed onto a CDC Coalition’s letter in support of at least $10.45 billion for CDC in any final FY 2023 spending bill.
October 26: AACN signed onto an APRN Coalition letter urging the promulgation of the provider nondiscrimination rules.
September 26: AACN signed on to an APRN Workgroup letter for the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) Fees; Histocompatibility, Personnel, and Alternative Sanctions for Certificate of Waiver Laboratories proposed rule.
September 26: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter urging Congress to pass top legislative priorities impacting our current and future nursing workforce before the end of the 117th Congress.
September 19: AACN signed onto a Research!America’s organizational letter urging timely action on FY23 appropriations to meet the very real research funding needs of the nation.
September 16: AACN signed onto a Friends of NCHS letter to Congressional appropriators thanking them for the support in the House and Senate Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill and urging that NCHS be funded for at least $190 million.
September 15: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees requesting at least $324.472 million for Title VIII Nursing Workforce and Development Programs and at least $208.571 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 as outlined in the House Appropriations Committee passed bill.
September 12: AACN signed onto a National Monkeypox (MPV) Working Group letter requesting $4.5 billion to support the domestic and international response to the current MPV emergency and ensure the United States is prepared for future infectious disease outbreaks.
August 24: AACN signed an APRN Workgroup letter supporting the creation of the new Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) designation and recommending the removal of physician supervision requirements for APRN's at such facilities.
August 23: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter to the House and Senate Committee on Armed Services urging for the retention of Sec. 5103 in the final FY 2023 NDAA conference agreement.
August 19: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter welcoming the new Under Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
July 28: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition Steering Committee letter to the U.S. Senate urging consideration and passage of the bipartisan House-passed bill, H.R. 6087, the Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act.
July 21: AACN signed onto an American Indian/Alaska Native Health Partners' letter supporting funding for the Indian Health Professions Account and Indian Health Service.
July 13: AACN signed onto a letter urging the House Energy and Commerce Committee to consider the Midwives for Maximizing Optimal Maternity Services (Midwives for MOMS) Act (H.R. 3352).
July 12: AACN signed onto a letter supporting consideration on the Midwives for MOMS Act (H.R. 3352) and the BABIES Act (H.R. 3337) this Congress.
June 23: AACN signed onto a Federation of Associations of Schools of Health Professions letter urging quick passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, legislation that will take critical steps to curb the gun violence epidemic.
June 9: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition Steering Committee letter supporting passage of S. 4182, the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act.
June 7: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition Steering Committee letter to members of the House of Representatives supporting passage of H.R. 6087, the Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act.
June 6: AACN signed onto an APRN Workgroup letter to the House Representatives Joe Courtney (D-CT-02) and Tim Walberg (R-MI-07) supporting H.R. 6087, the Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act.
May 26: AACN signed onto a letter supporting funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program.
May 16: AACN signed onto a Research!America joint letter urging for a robust 302(b) allocation for the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee to meet the very real research funding needs before us.
May 16: AACN signed onto the Friends of the VA Medical and Health Research (FOVA) FY 2023 budget recommendation for the Department of Veteran Affairs.
May 12: AACN signed onto an Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research letter supporting a program level of at least $49.048 billion for the NIH base budget in FY 2023 and urging lawmakers ensure that any funding for the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) supplement our $49 billion recommendation for NIH’s base budget, rather than supplant the essential foundational investment in the NIH.
May 10: AACN signed onto the Coalition for Health Funding letter supporting a significant increase of at least $239.59 billion in the FY 2023 allocation for the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee to ensure the robust, sustained, and predictable investments that these programs require.
May 10: AACN signed onto the Friends of NCHS letter supporting of $210 million in funding for the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in FY 2023
May 6: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter urging Congress to take action on top legislative priorities that impact nursing education, practice, and research. This letter comes as we kick off National Nurses Week 2022.
April 28: AACN signed onto a letter urging House and Senate Appropriators to support $35 million for CDC and $25 million for NIH to conduct public health research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention.
April 26: AACN signed onto a Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition (HPNEC) letter urging Congress to provide $1.51 billion for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Title VII health professions and Title VIII nursing workforce development programs for FY 2023.
April 25: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter urging Congress to take action to make waivers permanent beyond this Public Health Emergency (PHE).
April 19: AACN signed onto a Federation of Associations of Schools of Health Professions letter encouraging the inclusion of health professions education and training programs in any legislative efforts to address the mental health challenges facing our country.
April 11: AACN signed onto the Nursing Community Coalition letters to the House and the Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies outlining support for $530 million for Title VIII Nursing Workforce and Development Programs and $210 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023.
April 6: AACN signed onto a letter urging to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to support the Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services Block Grant.
April 1: AACN signed onto the CDC Coalition letter supporting of $11 billion in funding for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in FY 2023
March 31: AACN signed onto a Voices for Non-Opioid Choices letter urging the Senate Finance Committee to include the Non-Opioids Prevent Addiction in the Nation (“NOPAIN”) Act (S. 586) in the mental health legislative package currently under development.
March 27: AACN signed onto an American Indian/Alaska Native Health Partners' letter endorsing the Indian Health Service Health Professions Tax Fairness Act of 2022.
March 24: AACN signed onto letter urging Congress to pass emergency supplemental COVID-19 funding.
March 18: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter welcoming the new Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
March 17: AACN signed onto a letter supporting Congressman Troy Carter's resolution condemning violence against health care personnel.
March 8: AACN signed onto an APRN Workgroup letter to the secretaries of Labor, Treasury, and Health & Human Services, on provider nondiscrimination language.
March 8: AACN signed onto a letter thanking Senate and the House champions of H.R. 1667, the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, for their work to pass this vital bill and support the mental health needs of health care providers, including nurses.
February 14: AACN signed onto Nursing Community Coalition letters to the Senate and the House Veterans’ Affairs Committees urging them to pass S.1220/H.R.2568 - United States Cadet Nurse Corps Service Recognition Act of 2021.
February 14: AACN signed onto an American Council on Education letter urging Congress to support and protect historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) following bomb threats made against the community.
February 4: AACN signed onto a Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions letter to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee outlining their comments on the PREVENT Pandemics Act discussion draft.
January 31: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter welcoming the new Administrator of the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration.
January 19: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter reiterating support for at least $314.472 million for Title VIII Nursing Workforce and Development Programs and at least $200.782 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022.
January 19: AACN signed onto a Nursing Community Coalition letter reiterating the Senate to preserve shared nursing priorities in their Build Back Better Act.