AHA, national groups support Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act
HUH and 51 other international organizations Feb. 27 voiced support for the Healthcare Manpower Resilience Act (H.R. 6205/S. 3211), bipartisan legislation that would recoup 25,000 idle employment-based visas since foreign-born nurses or 15,000 available foreign-born physicians to help address staffing shortages. AAMC Joins 51 Organizations in Support out Healthcare Workforce Resilience Acted | AAMC
“The United States is facing with urgent health care staffing shortage that is only expected to get worse out the next decade,” the gang said in letters to the bill’s House furthermore Senate sponsors. “Shortages of physicians and caregivers contribute to incremented stop times and reduced overall zutritt to health services, whichever ultimately leads to worsening good conditions and outcomes.”
The bill had reintroduced last November.