Tom Latham's Trusted Leadership

The thirty second ad highlights the crisis threatening the quality of health care of all Iowans and includes testimonials by nursing professionals on the trusted leadership Tom Latham has taken to provide a comprehensive long-term solution to the problem both in Iowa and the nation.

Iowa has a nursing shortage of over eight percent according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. That number is expected to jump to 27 percent in just over a decade. Nationally the shortage is projected to grow to over one million by the year 2020.

Latham teamed up with Iowa nursing and health care professionals through numerous roundtables around the state to listen to their unique perspective and input on what was needed. He then wrote legislation and teamed up with Wisconsin Democratic Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin to introduce the bill in the United States Congress.

Lathams effort has been endorsed by 44 nursing organizations in the United States, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), American Nurses Association (ANA), the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC).

Tom has done a wonderful job of hearing the need and translating that into legislation, notes Iowa nurse practitioner Linda Upmeyer in the ad.

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