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State Advocacy Alerts/Updates:

State Budget

• Governor Releases Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Budget (3/12/10 - password required)
• IHA President's Statement on Governor's Budget Proposal (3/10/10)
• Send a Message to the Governor to Protect Health Care in the State Budget (2/24/10)
• Statement by IHA President Maryjane Wurth on the Governor's State of the State Address (1/13/10)

Medicaid

• Update: Support Medicaid Initiative for Critical Access Hospitals (3/3/10)
• Editorial Urges Caution on Illinois Medicaid Cuts (2/15/10)
• IHA Urges Governor to Support Critical Access Hospitals (2/11/10)
• IHA Letter on Medicaid to Gubernatorial Candidates (1/25/10)

Mental Health

• Update: Urge Your State Rep. to Support CHIPS Funding for Mental Health Services (3/3/10)

Nurse Staffing

• Oppose Mandatory Nurse Staffing Ratios: HB5033 to be Heard in House Human Services Committee (2/18/10)

Regulatory

• Urge Your State Representative to Oppose Broad New Hospital Fines: HB5176 (2/22/10)
• State of IL Nursing Home Safety Task Force Final Report (2/19/10)
• Senator Republican Leader Christine Radogno Letter to IHA on MRSA (SB2981) (2/19/10)
• Urge Your Senator to Oppose SB2593 to Impose New Fees on Hospitals (2/18/10)
• IHA Letter to Governor on Nursing Home Recommendations (2/18/10)
• IHA Letter to Nursing Home Safety Task Force (1/21/10)
• The Illinois Hospital Community's Response to Disease-Specific Regulation (1/5/10)