2011 March on Washington & Law Symposium Conference & Exposition March 26, 2011

We Need to Keep Up the Fight for America's Future!

If you had any doubts left about the importance of engaging lawmakers in Washington, DC when it comes to health care and the particular needs of home care and hospice providers, 2010 will have quashed them. In the run-up to passage of health care reform, NAHC held more in-person advocacy events here in the Nation’s Capital than ever before, recognizing the need to connect with legislators face-to-face and share the stories that only hospice and home care providers can. And our voices were heard! NAHC and home care and hospice providers played a significant role in molding the unprecedented health care reform bill that ultimately was enacted, and helped drastically reduce cuts that had been proposed. But our work is not done.

As federal regulatory agencies, states, insurance companies, and others work through a complex implementation of the new law’s extensive provisions, we have to continue to ensure that our patients’ needs are understood and protected. The best way to do so is to explain to your representatives in Congress how critical the high-value, high-quality care that home care and hospice providers deliver every day are to some of the nation’s most vulnerable individuals.

For years, we’ve worked to educate members of Congress about home care’s ability to transform and right a system out of balance, and what it means to patients across the United States. The challenges that came with the spiraling costs of health care did not happen overnight, and they won’t be corrected overnight. All the while, the nation’s population has been shifting dramatically with the burgeoning elderly population, and along with this must come new paradigms within health care and an emphasis on managing chronic illness using high-quality, cost-effective care delivered in the home and community — keeping patients where they prefer to be and with their loved ones.

Please visit http://www.nahc.org/Meetings/MoW/11/ for more information and to register. Please email meetings@nahc.org if you have an questions.