Over the next two weeks, Center Maryland will be highlighting the winners from the 2022 Maryland General Assembly.
After an extraordinary 2 years of saving untold lives and caring for thousands of COVID patients, Maryland’s hospitals faced unprecedented workforce challenges throughout the state. Step in Nicole Stallings and the Government Affairs team at the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA) to highlight the needs of one of the state’s most important assets.
Throughout the 2022 session, Stallings and the MHA team were relentless advocates for Maryland’s hospitals. With big wins to support staff recruitment and retention efforts in addition to strengthening the loan repayment fund for physicians, physician assistants and nurses, the workforce wins in Annapolis addressed the top issues for the organization. This is in addition to legislation forming a commission to study the state’s health care workforce and a separate bill that requires a public awareness campaign on workplace violence awareness and prevention in health care settings. Over the course of the session, MHA’s team gave one more reason why Maryland’s hospitals and their staff have been real winners – and heroes – over the last two years.
