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The Partnership for Action is YOU...
- Working with your state hospital association and the AHA.
- Working with your legislators on an advocacy agenda for 2007 and beyond that helps people take care of people.
What is the Partnership for Action?
The Partnership for Action is the legislative and political grassroots program for America's hospitals and health systems. It allows interested and committed members of the hospital and health system family, called "Key Contacts," to effectively communicate with their senators and representatives, to show their leaders how the decisions they make in Washington will affect what happens back home.
What is a Key Contact?
Key Contacts are individuals who agree to represent their hospital and health system colleagues by contacting their legislators on crucial legislative issues throughout the year. They are constituents who are committed to working with their legislators, explaining how government policies impact the delivery of quality health care in the communities you both serve.
Key contacts are the vital link between policy and politics, between Washington and the rest of the world, between statistical projections and reality.
Who Can Become a Key Contact?
Anyone in America's hospital community can become a Key Contact: Hospital administrators and chief executive officers, senior staff, employees, trustees, volunteers, even patients. The only requirement is a commitment to deliver the hospital/health system message on behalf of your community when called upon.
The Benefits of Being in the Partnership for Action
Besides the ability to favorably impact the legislative process (and the satisfaction that goes along with it), key contacts of the Partnership for Action receive:
- AHA's News Now - breaking news delivered to you
- 24-hour hotline to AHA legislative staff to answer questions
- A Congressional Directory
- Additional benefits from your State association
- Special briefings via the Internet and conference calls regarding crucial health care issues before Congress