Champion Nursing Coalition

About the Champion Nursing Coalition

The Champion Nursing Coalition joins together a broad spectrum of groups each with a stake in ensuring all Americans have access to a highly skilled nurse when and where they need one. This diverse national coalition represents the voices of consumers, purchasers and providers of health care, all in support of common sense, common ground solutions to build a 21st century nursing workforce. Its purpose is initially to raise awareness and ultimately to achieve permanent solutions.
 

Guiding Principles of the Champion Nursing Coalition

Coalition members are united around a set of principles, which are:

• Recognition of the crucial role nurses play in delivering high-quality, affordable health care.
• Concern about the shortage of highly educated nurses in many sectors of the health care delivery system that exists today and is predicted to grow in the future.
• Commitment to educate ourselves and others about the need to remove barriers and increase access to high quality, nurse-provided and affordable health care; increase nursing education capacity; improve recruitment and retention; increase the influence of nurses; and build a 21st century nursing workforce.
• Pledge to find solutions that improve consumer access to high quality nursing care through public, private and other means, including as a part of efforts to implement health care reform.

 Coalition News

Coalition Members

AARP
AFL-CIO
Alzheimer’s Association
America’s Health Insurance Plans
American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
American Association of People with Disabilities
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
American Geriatrics Society
American Health Care Association
American Heart Association
American Hospital Association
American Public Health Association
Consumers Advancing Patient Safety
Disabled American Veterans
Easter Seals
Families USA
Kaiser Permanente
Leapfrog Group
National Association for Home Care and Hospice
National Association of Community Health Centers
National Business Coalition on Health
National Business Group on Health
National Education Association
National Family Caregivers Association
National Hispanic Medical Association
National Partnership for Women and Families
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Take Care Health Systems (Walgreens)
Verizon

Documents to Download and Share

Statements of Support for the Coalition

Senator Richard J. Durbin (IL) (PDF)
Congresswoman Lois Capps, RN (CA) (PDF)

Coalition Launch Highlights

Coalition Launch Speakers (PDF)
Speech by Nancy LeaMond, Executive Vice President, AARP (PDF)

Coalition Member Statements:

• Alzheimer's Association (PDF)
• American Association of Home and Services for the Aging (PDF)
• American Health Care Association (PDF)
• Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (PDF)
• National Education Association (PDF)
• Verizon Communications (PDF)