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Feb. 9, 2022
Issue Paper: Wisconsin’s Health Care Workforce Challenge
Wisconsin has long faced a “silver tsunami” –our age 75+ population keeps growing and requiring more services while at the same time the available workforce shrinks. Even with health care being a great field with growing career potential, and great interest in health care careers, our health care workforce cannot grow fast enough to keep pace with the escalating demands of an aging population.
Workforce - AdvocacyDocument
Feb. 9, 2022
Testimony: WHA Supports Assembly Bill 960 to Protect the Health Care Frontline
Download testimony sent to members of the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety supporting Assembly Bill 960.
Workforce - AdvocacyDocument
Feb. 9, 2022
Coalition Memo: Support of AB 960 – Battery and Threats of Violence to Health Care Providers and Sta
Download the Coalition Memo: Support of AB 960 – Battery and Threats of Violence to Health Care Providers and Staff.
Workforce - AdvocacyDocument
Jan. 13, 2022
WHA Letter to Cong. Delegation re: Investigation into Anticompetitive Nurse Staffing Agency Practice
Download the letter sent to members of the U.S. House of Representatives asking them to to join a bipartisan letter requesting investigation into anticompetitive nurse staffing agency practices.
COVID Workforce - AdvocacyDocument
Jan. 6, 2022
Letter to DHS re: Staffing
Download the letter written to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services about staffing shortages in hospitals across the state.
Workforce - AdvocacyDocument
Jul. 28, 2021
WHA Testimony on SB 394 – APRN Modernization Act
Download testimony written to the Senate Committee on Health about the APRN Modernization Act.
Workforce - AdvocacyDocument
Mar. 19, 2021
Report: 2021 Wisconsin Health Care Workforce Report
As this report shows, COVID-19 accelerated historic trends that were already stressing Wisconsin’s health care workforce—most notably, an increasing demand for health care services by an aging population combined with disproportionate retirements of health care workers relative to new professionals entering the field, a phenomenon referred to as the “Silver Tsunami.”
COVID Workforce - AdvocacyDocument
Jun. 27, 2018
Supreme Court's Decision on the noneconomic damages cap for medical liability
Learn more about the Supreme Court's Decision on the noneconomic damages cap for medical liability.
Legal Medical Liability CapDocument
Jan. 18, 2018
WHA’s January 2018 Amicus Brief filed with the Supreme Court re: Mayo case (non-economic damage cap
Learn more about WHA’s January 2018 Amicus Brief filed with the Supreme Court re: Mayo case (non-economic damage cap on medical liability).
Legal Medical Liability CapDocument
Jul. 22, 2011
Summary of Key Issues in the Concealed Carry Act
The 2011 Wisconsin Act 35 (“Act 35’), permits individuals to carry a concealed weapon if the individual undergoes training and receives a license to carry a concealed weapon.
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