Communication letter Category: Letters

This bill would improve access to community health worker services for Medicare and Medicaid enrollees, address preventable diseases and disparities that drive health spending, and improve the delivery of coordinated, whole-person care.

Lutheran Services in America, in partnership with the American Health Care Association (AHCA) and 33 of our member organizations across 16 states, addressed a letter to the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee to spur action on the Protecting Rural Seniors’ Access to Care Act (S.3410/H.R. 5796). The bill, which Lutheran Services in America has endorsed, will prohibit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from finalizing the proposed one-size-fits-all, unfunded skilled nursing facility minimum staffing rule that was released for comment last year by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Lutheran Services in America joined with other nonprofit groups to ask OMB to insert language in the final rule they are drafting governing nonprofit federal grants to ensure award amounts keep pace with increased staffing costs related to a DOL proposed rule which would broaden the group of employees eligible for overtime pay.

Lutheran Services in America joined with other organizations working in skilled nursing and longterm care to ask the State Department to end the freeze on EB-3 visas and bring the dates current for application review.

Lutheran Services in America responded to the Committee’s request for Information on the drivers of health care workforce shortages and ideas for potential solutions.

Lutheran Services in America joined other national organizations to urge Congress to support robust funding to meet the affordable housing needs of older adults in Fiscal Year 2024.

Lutheran Services in America joined other partners to send USCIS a letter urging them to consider operational methods to save costs rather than increasing costs for the same level of service and more alternatives to reduce the need for applicants to contact USCIS.