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		  The latest stories from AHA Today.
  The House Appropriations Committee this week voted 33-25 to approve legislation providing $253.8 billion for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education in fiscal year 2022, a 28% increase over the prior fiscal year. 
  
  This week, the Joint Commission released a Quick Safety advisory, which provides four strategies to help hospitals and medical centers support the needs of diverse populations
  
  Fifty-two members of the Nursing Community Coalition (NCC), including AONL, sent a letter to congressional leadership last week outlining the coalition’s shared public health
  
  Nurse and health care economist Peter Buerhaus, PhD, RN, shared preliminary findings from recent and ongoing research into the pandemic’s impact on the nursing workforce.
  
  In a presentation packed with persuasive statistics and research findings, Harvard University professor David R. Williams, PhD, explained why race, ethnicity, education, income 
  
  A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, PhD, kicked off the AONL 2021 Virtual Conference on Tuesday.
  
  AONL Board President Mary Ann Fuchs, DNP, RN, welcomed more than 3,000 attendees to AONL 2021, which was held virtually July 13-14.
  
  SSM Health, based in Madison, Wis., partnered with diverse organizations to promote COVID-19 vaccination in the communities it serves in four different states.
  
  The White House plans to deploy COVID-19 surge response teams to help communities experiencing a surge of cases or at risk of becoming hotspots due to the delta variant
  
  Effective this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for non-NIOSH-approved disposable respirators
  
 
              