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The Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida advocates on behalf of Florida’s 14 safety net hospital systems to ensure that they have the resources to continue their mission of providing accessible and high-quality health care for all Floridians, regardless of their ability to pay.
Our member hospitals — acknowledged as among America’s best — play a vital role in our state’s health care system. They are the state’s teaching hospitals, public hospitals and children’s hospitals. Though they make up just 10 percent of Florida’s hospitals, safety nets provide half of the state’s charity care, 80 percent of the state’s graduate education and 67 percent of the organ transplants performed in the state. They perform two out of three organ transplants and treat 99 percent of inpatient burn victims.
With major budget cuts certain during the 2010 Legislative Session, it is essential that Florida lawmakers understand the critical role of safety net hospitals. SNHAF coordinates an advocacy agenda of legislative priorities to safeguard quality health care for our state’s most vulnerable citizens — the poor and the uninsured. |
