1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

I am your constituent and I want to make sure you know that there are two bills in Congress that purport to help patients but will do just the opposite. They are H.R. 3227, Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act and H.R. 9067, Building America’s Health Care Workforce Act . The first allows substandard dangerous facilities continue to train and certify staff even when they have been found to put patients in danger, The second allows required certification training hours to include unrelated time at work. This does not make sure that nurses aides and others actually have the skills needed they need to take care of patients. The lives of those patients depend on staff being knowledgeable and capable as demonstrated by certification. Cheating the certification process just puts patients at risk. I want you to vote NO on HR 3227 and HR 9067 and demonstrate that you put patients first. Thank you.