This resource from the AHA is a one-stop-shop for building and sustaining relationships with your elected lawmakers and their staffs. Learn the do’s and don’t of meeting with a lawmaker and best practices for effective advocacy on behalf of hospitals and health systems.
Experts from AHA and Beekeeper Group give hospital leaders the rundown on effective advocacy, with tips and tactics for in-person and social media engagement with lawmakers.
AHA Advocacy Alliance were created to help you engage your legislators on specific issues that have a direct impact on your ability to continue providing quality health services in your community. Alliance activities include special briefing calls and emails to keep members up-to-date on key developments, breakout sessions at AHA Advocacy Days, direct member outreach and other issue-specific resources.
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The Coalition to Protect America's Health Care was formed to protect access to the best quality health care for all Americans. We are a community of more than one million people who recognize the important role hospitals play in communities all over America, and advocate on their behalf to elected officials in Washington who too-often put funding for paitent care on chopping block.
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The AHA Political Action Committee (AHAPAC) allows eligible hospital leaders to make voluntary donations toward the support of federal candidates of both political parties who support the hospital policy agenda. AHAPAC is bipartisan, working with state hospital associations and others. AHAPAC raised more than $4 million for the 2020 elections, making more than 1,000 different contributions.
For more information, please email sdexter@aha.org.
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