Please visit our Advocacy Action Center to view current CHI Advocacy Alerts and send communications to Congress on our priority issues.

As one of the nation's largest faith-based health care systems, we have the commitment and ability to go beyond the provision of quality health care. We work to protect the vulnerable; encourage participation in the political process; and safeguard the environment. Advocacy for these and other issues of social justice stems from our leadership position as a builder of healthy communities.

Catholic Health Initiatives advocates for the kind of systemic change that will provide affordable health care for all. The system's leaders communicate with legislators at local, state and federal levels on important health care issues, including:

• Health care access and coverage for all, beginning with children and other vulnerable populations.
  
• Provision of high quality health care services that are undifferentiated by race, ethnicity, immigration status or socio-economic level.
  
• Fair payment to providers to cover costs of providing quality care and maintain needed health care programs for vulnerable individuals.
  
• Recognition of the charitable purpose of tax-exempt hospitals and their vital role in caring for the uninsured and underinsured.
  
• Preservation of access to health care services in rural communities, including improvements to the Critical Access Hospital program.
  
• Reduction and prevention of violence to foster the building of healthy communities.