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State Advocacy Alerts/Updates:

State Budget

• IHA's Spring 2010 State Legislative Session Summary (password required - 7/1/10)
• Jobs Bill Update: FMAP Extension Stalls Again (6/25/10)
• IHA Testimony on State Budget (4/20/10)
• Urge the Governor and General Assembly to Protect Health Care in the State Budget (3/23/10 - password required)
• IHA Summary of State Budget (PowerPoint presentation 3/23/10 - password required)
• Governor Releases Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Budget (3/12/10 - password required)
• IHA President's Statement on Governor's Budget Proposal (3/10/10)
• Statement by IHA President Maryjane Wurth on the Governor's State of the State Address (1/13/10)

Medicaid

• Governor and Hospitals Focus on Rural Health Issues, Including CAH Initiative (8/30)
  - IHA News Release: Hospital Community Commends Governor and Lawmakers for Critical Access Hospital Initiative (8/28/10)
• Governor Signs HB5765: Critical Access Hospital Initiative (7/30/10)
• Proposed Rules Published for Hospital Capital Investment Program (7/29/10)
• IHA Letter to Gov. Quinn on House Bill 5765: Critical Access Hospitals (6/18/10)
• Initiative for Critical Access Hospitals Receives Final Legislative Approval (5/4/10)
• 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)

General Information

• Advocate Health Care's Meghan Clune Recognized as 2010 Illinois Grassroots Champion (4/7/10)

Mental Health

• Update April 29: Urge Your State Senator to Support Restoration of CHIPS Program for Mental Health Services

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)