Emergency/Trauma Care and Stroke
There are significant gaps in our trauma and emergency health care delivery systems, and trauma is the leading killer of Americans under the age of 44. The AANS and CNS have worked tirelessly to urge Congress to provide the full funding for trauma and emergency care regionalization programs, which will support grants to states to improve critically needed state‐wide trauma care systems and pilot projects to develop models for regionalizing emergency care. As recommended by the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) in its groundbreaking 2006 report, "the objective of regionalization is to improve patient outcomes by directing patients to facilities with optimal capabilities of any given type of illness or injury."
Key Resources
Letters
Published: February 4, 2025
Re: Urging the Reauthorization of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA) Dear Leader Thune, Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, and Leader Jeffries: The Trauma Coalition writes to urge Congress to […]
Letters
Dear Chair Murray, Vice Chair Collins, Chair Granger, and Ranking Member DeLauro: As you consider appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, the undesigned 434 national, state, and local medical, public […]
Letters
Published: December 13, 2023
Dear Leaders Schumer and McConnell, Speaker Johnson, and Leader Jeffries: The undersigned organizations write to encourage swift passage of the Pandemic All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA), legislation that is vital to […]
Letters
Subject: S. 1653, the Prevent Blood Loss with Emergency Equipment Devices (BLEEDing) Act Dear Senators Menendez and Boozman: On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the […]
Press Release (AANS)
STATEMENT of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons to the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, […]
Letters
Published: April 19, 2023
Dear Chair Murray, Vice Chair Collins, Chair Granger, and Ranking Member DeLauro: As you consider appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, the undersigned 408 national, state, and local medical, public […]
Press Release (AANS)
Published: March 23, 2023
STATEMENT of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, […]
Letters
Published: March 22, 2023
Dear Chairwoman Granger, Ranking Member DeLauro, and Chairman Aderholt: The undersigned organizations respectfully request that the Subcommittee include $11.5 million in funding for the Military and Civilian Partnership for the […]
Letters
Published: March 21, 2023
Subject: Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act Reauthorization Dear Representatives Hudson and Eshoo: On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), we […]
Letters
Published: March 21, 2023
Subject: Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA) Reauthorization Dear Chairman Sanders, Ranking Member Cassidy and Sens. Casey and Romney: On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and […]
Letters
Published: October 27, 2022
Dear Chairwoman DeLauro and Ranking Members Granger and Cole: As you prepare to conference the final Fiscal Year 2023 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill […]
Letters
Published: October 27, 2022
Dear Chairmen Lahey and Murray and Ranking Members Shelby and Blunt: As you prepare to conference the final Fiscal Year 2023 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies […]
Letters
Dear Chairs Leahy and Murray and Ranking Members Shelby and Blunt: We are contacting you today to respectfully request that the Subcommittee include $11.5 million in funding for the Military […]
Letters
Published: April 28, 2022
Dear Chairman Leahy, Vice Chairman Shelby, Chair DeLauro, and Ranking Member Granger: As you consider appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, the undersigned 288 national, state, and local medical, public […]
Letters
Published: November 30, 2021
Dear Chairwoman DeLauro, Chairman Leahy, Ranking Member Granger and Vice ChairmanShelby: The undersigned 140 members of the CDC Coalition and other supporting state and nationalorganizations urge you to include at […]
Letters
Published: November 18, 2021
Dear Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, Leader McConnell, and Leader McCarthy: As you consider appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s(CDC) National Center for Injury […]
Letters
Re: Retroactive reviews of emergency care by UnitedHealthcare Mr. Thompson: The Alliance of Specialty Medicine represents more than 100,000 specialty physicians and isdedicated to the development of sound federal health […]
Letters
Dear Chair Murray and Ranking Member Blunt: We are contacting you today to respectfully request that the Subcommittee include $11.5 millionin funding for the Military and Civilian Partnership for the […]
Letters
Dear Mr. Thompson: The undersigned organizations write to express deep concerns about UnitedHealthcare’s (UHC) newpolicy to allow for the retroactive denial of coverage for emergency care, which will have serious […]
Article
STATEMENT of the American Association of Neurological Surgeonsand the Congress of Neurological Surgeons to the United States Senate Committee on AppropriationsSubcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,Education, and Related Agencies, […]
Article
STATEMENT of the American Association of Neurological Surgeonsand the Congress of Neurological Surgeons to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on AppropriationsSubcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,Education, and Related […]
Letters
Published: April 27, 2021
Dear Chairwoman DeLauro and Ranking Member Cole: We respectfully request the inclusion of $11.5 million for the Military and Civilian Partnershipfor the Trauma Readiness Grant Program authorized in the Pandemic […]
Letters
Published: March 25, 2021
Dear Chairman Leahy, Vice Chairman Shelby, Chair Murray, and Ranking Member Blunt: As you consider appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, the undersigned 202 national, state,and local medical, public health, […]
Letters
Published: March 25, 2021
Dear Chair DeLauro, Ranking Member Granger, and Ranking Member Cole: As you consider appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, the undersigned 202 national, state,and local medical, public health, and research […]
Letters
Published: February 16, 2021
Subject: S. 281, the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act Dear Senator Markey: On behalf of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Congress ofNeurological Surgeons (CNS), AANS/CNS Joint Section on […]
