Contact Your Local Congress Member
Advocate for Long-Term Healthcare Workforce Solutions
Across North America, clinicians, patients, and concerned citizens have begun raising an important issue with policymakers: federal healthcare dollars are increasingly being used to fund expensive temporary staffing agencies rather than investing in stable internal clinical teams. While some institutions are taking a pro-active approach, others aren't quite there yet.
This approach drives up costs, destabilizes hospital teams, and ultimately affects the quality of care patients receive.
How You Can Help
If you believe healthcare funding should prioritize stable teams, fair wages, and sustainable workforce solutions, you can help bring this issue to the attention of policymakers.
- Find the contact information for your local Congress member.
- Copy the letter template below.
- Send it by email or through their official contact form
Adding your voice helps policymakers recognize that taxpayers want long-range solutions — not short-term crisis management.
SAMPLE LETTER TO CONGRESS
Dear [Congress Member],
I am writing as a concerned citizen regarding how federal healthcare dollars are being used to address the ongoing hospital workforce crisis.
Across the country, hospitals are increasingly relying on expensive temporary staffing agencies to fill gaps created by burnout and turnover. In many cases, agency nurses are paid two to three times more than permanent staff working beside them.
This approach is financially unsustainable and destabilizes hospital teams. Taxpayer dollars should prioritize long-term workforce stability, not short-term emergency staffing.
I urge you to support policies and funding that:
• Strengthen stable internal clinical teams
• Ensure fair wages and safe working conditions
• Invest in long-range workforce retention strategies
• Reduce reliance on high-cost temporary agency staffing
When clinicians are treated with dignity, paid fairly, and supported within stable teams, patient care improves and healthcare systems become more resilient.
This is not simply a staffing issue — it is a structural one. Federal healthcare funding should prioritize sustainable workforce solutions that protect both patients and clinicians for the long term.
Thank you for your attention to this issue.
Sincerely,
[Name]
[City / State]
Taking a stand
Why This Matters
When hospitals rely heavily on agency staffing, the system becomes financially inefficient and unstable. Taxpayer dollars should support stable internal clinical teams, and long-term workforce retention solutions that reduce reliance on temporary staffing agencies.
The goal is simple: build resilient hospital communities where clinicians thrive and patients receive consistent, high-quality care.
The Stand We Take Today
Now some years post-COVID, we’ve observed, and listened – particularly as institutional rhetoric around wellbeing accelerated. A troubling pattern prevails: benefits programs expanded, generic interventions multiplied, yet outcomes have not meaningfully improved. More funding. More programs. More misalignment.
And still, the generic workforce leadership development Gurus continue to have the magic bullet for burnout: change jobs, set boundaries and just say “no”, leading to growing frustration and loss within the health workforce – and worst, the loss of human spirit through suicide.
Policymakers continue to fund think tanks focused on AI while the same human dynamics repeat themselves: and very little change at the point of care. Leadership responses continue to focus on managing symptoms rather than systems. Responsibility diffused, timelines stretched, and the human experience inside complex organizations remained largely untouched.
This work requires trust, discretion, and a long-term view – not more “mental health” mandates. And it is guided by one central principle: when organizations stop treating human strain as a personal failure and start addressing it as a systems issue, meaningful change becomes possible.
Today, we’re trailblazing. Peace, Love & Light,
Lynn Chenier, CEO & Founder, The ProMind Experience™
