May 11, 2020 Hospital Week in Pennsylvania: Celebrating Pennsylvania’s Hospitals, Health Care Heroes Pennsylvania’s hospitals are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to treat every person who needs care, regardless of their health or insurance status. We honor these critical resources by observing May 10–15 as National Hospital Week and May as National Nurses Month. These observances offer opportunities to express gratitude for the invaluable and selfless work that hospital and health care workers do to make sure that every Pennsylvanian gets the care they need.
May 07, 2020 HAP Joins National ‘Protect the Heroes’ Campaign to Support Hospitals, Health Care Workers during COVID-19 Pandemic HAP has joined Protect the Heroes, a national call to action asking the general public to support the critical needs of health care workers in their communities through donations to the hospital of their choice.
May 04, 2020 House Committee Moves Health Care Worker Assault Legislation Today, the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee voted to send Senate Bill 351, offered by Sen. Judy Ward (R-Blair), to a vote by the full House. Senate Bill 351 adds health care practitioners to a protected class in the event of an on-duty assault and increase the penalty, from a misdemeanor to a felony.
May 04, 2020 HAP Focuses on Safety in Testimony at Joint Senate Committee Hearing, Reopening of Pennsylvania Today, via teleconference, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee held a joint hearing with the Senate Local Government Committee on the reopening of the commonwealth after weeks of a statewide stay at home order that began on April 1. Members of the committees heard from members of the Wolf Administration, including the Department of Community and Economic Development, the Department of Health, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency as well as local government officials, and representatives from the health care community, including HAP.
April 29, 2020 Contact Your Legislator Today: Liability Protections for Health Care Workers HAP needs your help today to ask state legislators and the Governor Wolf for medical liability protections as health care workers—including doctors, nurses, medical and nursing assistants, and long-term care workers—respond to COVID-19 in the commonwealth.