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As one of the nation's largest faith-based health care systems, Trinity Health is committed to meeting the needs of the communities we serve. Leveraging the strength of Trinity Health – including its leaders, colleagues, geographic footprint and delivery system innovations – Advocacy works to influence public policies that are critical to realizing our Mission and Vision.

As a Ministry of people caring for people, Trinity Health is committed to building a health system that allows us to listen, to partner in achieving health goals, and to make it easy for patients. This brings to life our commitment to be a compassionate, transforming and healing presence in our communities. We advocate for public policies that advance the common good, including ensuring affordable, high-quality health care for all.

Our 2021-22 Advocacy Goals & Priorities are as follows:

  • Improving the health of individuals and communities.
    • Everyone should have access to high-quality, comprehensive health care.
    • As COVID-19 demonstrates, investment in public health is critical to our nation's safety and economic health.
    • Improving the health of communities, including achieving racial equity, is the right thing to do.
    • Affordable, high-value health care is achievable.
  • Sustaining the Catholic health ministry.

To learn more about our goals and priorities as well as review specific policy information, please review the Issues & Priorities section of this website.

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Key Policy Areas of Focus
Our advocacy is rooted in the belief that adequate health care coverage is a basic human need required for people to flourish. In addition, we hold fast to the idea that, pragmatically, acess to coverage and care allows people to use the health care system more effectively, leading to increased provider and payer accountability, lower costs, a healthier population and a more vibrant economy.

The Common Good as outlined by our Catholic Social Teaching reflects the concept that the human person is inherently social. Living in community and as a part of an interconnected network of relationships, all persons have an obligation to foster that which is good, not only for oneself, but also for the good of all. Trinity Health is called to further aspirational principles that advance human dignity and the capacity of individuals to grow in community. 

We are at an important juncture in our nation's history. With a convergence of a global pandemic, a health care delivery system that fails to meet the needs of all, a challenged public health system, and societal unrest stemming from racial inequality, it's time to address the issues impacting the health of all Americans.

To advance Care for the Common Good, the following resources have been developed and are designed to advance advocacy as it pertains to a variety of coverage matters, including most recently a flurry of policy review and recommendations related to COVID-19:

  • COVID-19 Vaccine: Equity in Access
  • Essential Elements: Investing in Public Health
  • Creating National Supply Chain Certainty
  • Telehealth Flexibility after COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
  • Retaining Regulatory Efficiencies: Making COVID-19 Flexibilities Permanent
     
  • Racism: A Public Health Crisis
  • Advanced Payment Models Path to Health Care Resiliency
  • Essential Elements: Building a People-Centered Health System
  • Surprise Billing: Protect Patient Access
  • Coverage Matters: Stabilize the Marketplace, Reauthorize CHIP & Protect Medicaid Funding
  • Stabilizing the Health Insurance Marketplace: People-Centered Begins with People Covered
  • Work Requirements in Medicaid
  • High Risk Pools
  • Selling Insurance Across State Lines
  • Cost Sharing in Medicaid
  • Medicaid Per Capita Caps
  • Medicaid Section 1115 Waivers
  • Section 1332 Innovation Waivers
  • High Deductible Health Plans & Health Savings Accounts

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Care for the Common Good

We are at an important juncture in our nation's history. With a convergence of a global pandemic, a health care delivery system that fails to meet the needs of all, a challenged public health system, and societal unrest stemming from racial inequality, it's time to address the issues impacting the health of all Americans.

Trinity Health has a rich tradition of empowering stakeholders to advocate for change that strengthens our Mission and strategic aims designed to promote important Care for the Common Good Principles, and advance national health care reform.

The purpose is to empower and inspire advocates, including stakeholders and partners, with resources to engage in health policy conversations, be informed voters, and engage in digital advocacy that will ultimately influence policy change. 

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  • Hospital experts explain: Why does social distancing push model's COVID-19 peak later?

    The Charlotte Observer

    William Harley II told the Observer. Mecklenburg County's stay-at-home order is now set to expire April 29, at the same time as Gov.

  • Families, public plead for more information as COVID-19 deaths soar at nursing homes

    The Kansas City Star

    Riverbend's statistics stood then at 48 residents and eight employees testing positive. Riverbend was last inspected in January, just 11 days before the first reported coronavirus case in the United States. He was tested for the virus after his death.

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