We support 62 hospitals in providing the very best care to millions of Oregonians. Our focus is on advancing a policy agenda that addresses hospitals’ current and long-term needs to sustain a health care system generations of Oregonians can rely on.
We are working in partnership with labor unions and legislators on solutions that rebuild the pipeline of health care workers. In the 2023 legislative session, these included investments in training opportunities and expanding nurse educators.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the broken model of health care financing. That’s why in the 2023 legislative session, we supported fully funding Medicaid and other programs to ensure access to care and bring financial stability to our hospitals.
Every day, bureaucratic inefficiencies and staffing shortages mean that hundreds of patients wait to be discharged to a more appropriate care setting. We are committed to promoting collaboration between state agencies and stakeholders to reduce discharge barriers and alleviate staffing shortages in post-acute settings.
In order for health care workers to care for their communities no matter the circumstances, hospitals must be adaptable. We are working to reduce the burden of unnecessary regulation on our hospitals so they can direct resources to patient care.
Collaborating with labor unions and lawmakers, the Hospital Association of Oregon successfully advocated for a package of bills that supports hospital staff, grows the health care workforce and creates a task force to address hospital capacity and discharge challenges.
The hospital association partnered with lawmakers, labor unions and other key stakeholders to achieve key objectives.
The Hospital Association of Oregon’s federal public policy agenda is designed to bolster our members’ efforts to provide Oregonians with the highest quality care. With our active involvement, members have a voice in the federal policymaking process.
Advocating for better health care policy is a team sport, and we need your help. That’s why we’ve built a coalition committed to improving health care delivery in Oregon.
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The Hospital Association of Oregon is supporting hospitals in recovering from the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. In partnership with labor and state lawmakers, we put forth a package of bills in the 2023 legislative session designed to support hospital staff, build a pipeline of home-grown health care workers, and develop solutions to hospital capacity and discharge challenges. The package:
We all feel the impacts of health care policy decisions made both in Salem and Washington, D.C., and it is our mission to educate legislators and policymakers on the full range of consequences of their proposed legislation. When legislators are grounded in the hospital perspective, they will have a more comprehensive understanding of how their decisions will affect our patients, staff and communities.
The hospital association helps our members speak with a collective voice on important policy matters, and your participation is vital to that effort.
Our federal policy agenda guides the hospital association in addressing the challenges hospitals face as they seek to fulfill their missions of serving the health needs of their communities. It is aligned with the American Hospital Association’s policy agenda and is based on principles that have guided the hospital association’s public policy development for several years. These principles are:
We are proud to advocate for federal policies that support hospitals so they can support Oregonians.
