House Members Urge Funding for Children’s GME

More than 140 members of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote a letter to members of the House’s Committee on Appropriations urging them to protect funding for the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program, according to an AHA News Now report.

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The letter urged the committee to appropriate $265 million in funding for the program, exceeding the $88million allotted in President Obama’s 2013 budget. The letter called the amount “woefully inadequate” and said it “threatens[s] the pediatric workforce pipeline.”

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