MADISON - More than 1,000 hospital leaders, employees, trustees and volunteers, including from Monroe Clinic, participated in the 2016 Wisconsin Hospital Association's Advocacy Day event in Madison March 30. Advocacy Day is an annual event that connects hospital supporters from across the state with their legislators in Madison so lawmakers can learn how issues impact local hospitals and communities.
The crowd heard from the bipartisan state legislative panel of Sen. Leah Vukmir, R-Brookfield, Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, Rep. Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, and Rep. Peter Barca, D-Kenosha.
Advocacy Day attendees also heard from morning keynote speaker Rick Pollack, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association.
Gov. Scott Walker provided luncheon keynote remarks and signed important WHA legislation, the Wisconsin Health Care Data Modernization Act, into law in front of the crowd.
This year, 550 attendees spent time in the afternoon meeting with elected officials in the state Capitol. Advocates made their legislators aware of the role hospitals play in communities across the state in providing high quality, high value health care and how the legislature can support those efforts through the policies it enacts.
The crowd heard from the bipartisan state legislative panel of Sen. Leah Vukmir, R-Brookfield, Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, Rep. Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, and Rep. Peter Barca, D-Kenosha.
Advocacy Day attendees also heard from morning keynote speaker Rick Pollack, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association.
Gov. Scott Walker provided luncheon keynote remarks and signed important WHA legislation, the Wisconsin Health Care Data Modernization Act, into law in front of the crowd.
This year, 550 attendees spent time in the afternoon meeting with elected officials in the state Capitol. Advocates made their legislators aware of the role hospitals play in communities across the state in providing high quality, high value health care and how the legislature can support those efforts through the policies it enacts.
