GNYHA, the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and other hospital associations and teaching hospitals across the country have launched a new print advertisement urging Congress to stop the Federal cutbacks to teaching hospitals. On October 1, 2002, the Medicare indirect medical education (IME) cuts to teaching hospitals began to take place. Unless these cuts are stopped, teaching hospitals in New York will lose $140 million a year, and teaching hospitals across the country will lose $800 million per year.
The new print ad, shown at right, describes teaching hospitals' many critically important services, including offering world-class care, training more than 100,000 doctors every year, and providing care to millions of uninsured Americans. In addition, the ad explains that teaching hospitals are vital to the nation's homeland security and that they must spend millions of dollars on disaster readiness and training. "Now is not the time to slash their resources," declares the ad.
The print ad is currently running in a variety of Washington, D.C., publications, including The Washington Times, Roll Call, The Hill, National Journal, Congressional Daily, and Congressional Quarterly.
GNYHA and its partners have also created www.stopthecuts.org, a complementary Web site that provides important information about teaching hospitals and the urgent need to stop the Federal cutbacks.