The Pennsylvania Action Coalition (PA-AC) engages over 250 individual and organizational stakeholders, representing a cross-sector, multidisciplinary array of perspectives, with a common vision: a healthy Pennsylvania through high-quality, safe, and accessible nursing. Through the collective impact of strategic partnerships and volunteerism, the PA-AC advances initiatives around education transformation, diversity, practice innovation, leadership, and data that can improve health through nursing.
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Lincoln University Nursing Students Attend National Black Nurses Association Capitol Hill Day
Rep Lisa Blunt Rochester posing with Lincoln University nursing students and faculty as well as NBNA members. On February 2, 2023 the Pennsylvania Action Coalition had the pleasure of attending the 35th Annual National Black Nurses (NBNA) Day on Capitol Hill more
Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Locations: Pennsylvania,
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Nursing Innovations Funds Stimulate a Network of Partnerships for Health Equity
When nurses are empowered to create health equity in their communities, they bring together a network like nobody else can. The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has more
Issues: Improving Health Equity, Locations: Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming,
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Lincoln University Student Nurses Thrive in HBCU Mentoring Collaboration
A diverse nursing workforce means more access to care, and better care, especially for people in communities that have been historically underserved, such as communities of color and rural communities. Efforts are underway across nursing to diversify the workforce more
Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Locations: Pennsylvania,
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Campaign Names Winners of 2021 Nursing Innovations Fund Award
The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), has announced that six nurse-led projects will receive Nursing Innovations Fund awards of up to $25,000 each. The projects submitted by more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Improving Health Equity, Locations: Delaware, Kentucky, Montana, Pennsylvania, Utah, West Virginia,
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Nursing Podcast Series Building Vaccine Confidence
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses have played a critical role as frontline caregivers, leaders, and educators. As COVID-19 vaccines are developed, produced, distributed and communities vaccinated, vaccine confidence is critical. To build that more
Locations: Pennsylvania,
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Campaign Names 2020 Nursing Innovations Fund Award Winners
The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), is pleased to announce that 10 projects proposed by its state-based Action Coalitions, or in a few cases, organizations designated by an more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Improving Access to Care, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming,
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Nursing Podcast Series Focuses on Refugee Healthcare
How do newly settled refugees and immigrants in Pennsylvania get health care? That’s a question the Pennsylvania Action Coalition – a state arm of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action — takes on in its podcast, At the Core of Care. Over two episodes, more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: Pennsylvania,
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Nursing Charter High School Proposed in Pennsylvania
To increase the number of nurses with BSNs and diversify the nursing workforce in Pennsylvania, the state nurses association is in the process of creating a charter high more
Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Transforming Nursing Education, Locations: Pennsylvania,
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Groundbreaking Nursing Podcast Series Highlights Pennsylvania Nurses
Season One Launches Thursday, September 12 The Pennsylvania Action Coalition is excited to announce “At the Core of Care,” a new podcast series that highlights the creative efforts of nurses and their partners to meet the health and health care needs of more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Improving Access to Care, Locations: Pennsylvania,
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RWJF Interdisciplinary Research Leader Kathi Elliott Fosters Resilience in Black Girls
Black girls in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, are 11 times more likely to be referred to juvenile justice court than white girls—a figure that Kathi Elliott, DNP, MSW, CRNP, is determined to change. Elliott is an RWJF Interdisciplinary Research Leader (IRL) more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: National, Pennsylvania,
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Pennsylvania Convening Focuses on Achieving Excellence in Care for All
“Pennsylvania’s Healthcare Mosaic 2018 is an opportunity to join forces with the Pennsylvania Action Coalition in any capacity to act, lead, and advance a more equitable world of health and health care for some of the most vulnerable and more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration, Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: Pennsylvania,
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Campaign Announces Innovations Fund Award Winners
The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action is excited to announce nine of its state-based Action Coalitions have each been selected to receive up to $25,000 for innovative ideas to advance nursing and build a Culture of Health. The winners were chosen based on their more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Collecting Workforce Data, Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration, Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Transforming Nursing Education, Locations: Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, National, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, West Virginia,
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From One Coast to Another, Nurse Brings Health to Neighborhoods In Need
When asked where she grew up, Gloria McNeal responds with a mere ZIP code. But don’t expect to hear 90210, or any other such posh digits. “One-nine-one-two-three,” she says, “and that is a ZIP code you didn’t want to come from.” It may not have been more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: California, National, Pennsylvania,
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Calling #NurseInnovators in Pennsylvania! Video Contest and Inaugural Fellowship Announced
Nurses are on the front lines of care and are acutely aware of the needs of their patients and their families. With their “ears” and “eyes” on the intricacies of our healthcare system, they are uniquely positioned to provide valuable insight in advancing patient safety more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: Pennsylvania,
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Good, busy year for the Nurse Diversity Council of Pennsylvania
In Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Action Coalition’s Nurse Diversity Council (PA-NDC) has been busy bolstering the nursing workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve! The PA-NDC’s mission is to increase diversity more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration, Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: Pennsylvania,
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Study: Nurses’ Models of Care Match Culture of Health
Nurses are the health care professionals best positioned to contribute to a Culture of Health in their communities, says a study published in Nursing Outlook (there is a fee to download the study). “Innovative Nursing Care Models and Culture of Health: Early more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Locations: Pennsylvania,
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Breakthrough Leader in Nursing to Speak at White House-Hosted Conference
Monica R. McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, assistant professor at the Family Health Care Nursing Department at the University of California, San Francisco, will speak—fast—in a lightning talk at the White House Frontiers Conference Thursday, October 13, in Pittsburgh. more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: California, Pennsylvania,
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Treating People Not the Same As Treating Illness
It’s no secret that health care is hardest to come by in rural parts of the country. But, as it turned out in at least one rural community, building more clinics did not help; what helped was building relationships. More than a decade ago, the Centers for Disease more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Locations: Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
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Pennsylvania’s Villarruel Speaks Out on Greater Access to Care
Months after the Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill allowing nurses to provide health care to the full extent of their education and training, Antonia Villarruel, PhD, FAAN, dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, explained in a column on philly.com more
Issues: Improving Access to Care, Locations: Pennsylvania,
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Philadelphia: Brotherly Love, Culture of Health
To hear the name—the Stephen and Sandra Sheller 11th Street Family more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Locations: Pennsylvania,
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Inaugural Pennsylvania Action Coalition Stakeholder Summit
The Pennsylvania Action Coalition hosted a Stakeholder Summit on July 23, 2016 that began with remarks from Sue Hassmiller, Senior Adviser for Nursing at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Director of the Future for Nursing: Campaign for Action, about how nurses more
Issues: Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration, Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Transforming Nursing Education, Locations: Pennsylvania,
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Pennsylvania Senate to Hear Bill to Ease Scope Restrictions; Research Backs It Up
Pennsylvanians are a step closer to being able to receive primary care with fewer hurdles, thanks to a bill that went to the state Senate earlier this month that would end the requirement that nurse practitioners maintain written contracts with physicians to practice more
Issues: Improving Access to Care, Locations: National, Pennsylvania,
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PA-AC Diversity in Nursing Video Series Released
The Pennsylvania Action Coalition’s Nurse Diversity Council is thrilled to debut a video series focused on diversity in nursing. The short video clips were created to be like commercials and used for promoting diversity in nursing by coalition members and community more
Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Locations: Pennsylvania,
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Plenty of Industries See the Larger Benefits of Supporting Nursing and State Coalitions
Michelle Miller is always looking for those who can help Missouri’s largest health care foundation meet its mission—to improve the health of people and communities in the Show-Me State. As public policy liaison at the Missouri Foundation for Health, she struck gold more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Transforming Nursing Education, Locations: Missouri, National, Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Our Leaders
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Sarah Hexem Hubbard, Esq.
Executive Director
National Nurse-Led Care Consortium
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Jennifer (Horn) Gimbel
Director, Pennsylvania Action Coalition
National Nurse-Led Care Consortium
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Robert Shipp III, PhD, BSN, RN
Vice President, Workforce & Clinical Affairs
The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania