Current State Advocacy Concerns
Click here to read our Legislative Focus for 2010.
Click here to read our final Legislative Bill Watch for 2010.
Read TennCare's report to the TennCare Oversight Committee, April 19, 2010.
Write your Legislators by inputting your zip code in the boxes to the right.
National Rural Health Association Works to Renew Rural Medicare Programs. Read the letter.
RHAT Goes to Washington, DC
Several RHAT members attended the National Rural Health Association Policy Institute in January 2010 to speak to our federal legislators on national issues effecting rural areas.
Click here to read our message to our federal legislators.
Photo: (L to R) Bill Moats, Charles Wilkens MD, Ira Chilton, Senator Lamar Alexander,
Susan Veale, Nancy Chilton, Elsie Crawford, Betti Wilson-RHAT President,
Senator Bob Corker
Advocacy concerns for 2009 included:
Coordinated School Health
RHAT Supports Coordinated School Health
Coordinated School Health Presentation to the Senate Education Committee, March 3, 2009
RHAT writes letter for Coordinated School Health
Menu Labeling and Nutrition
Fact Sheet on Menu Labeling
RHAT supports healthy food in schools
RHAT Supports TN Menu Labeling initiative
Community Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics
RHAT Supports Health Centers as Key Player in Health Reform
Letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regarding Proposed Rule Changes to Rural Health Clinics
Environmental Concerns
RHAT writes letter to TVA re Coal Ash
Summary of 2009 Legislative Focus
RHAT Hill Day
On March 4, 2009 RHAT members mingled with their legislative Representatives and Senators at our Legislative Breakfast in downtown Nashville. We then proceeded to our legislators' offices to discuss rural health issues.
Click here to read the message.
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