Valued Voice

A key driver of burden faced by health care professionals and hospitals is compliance with a growing number of regulations and requirements. Regulation is intended to ensure that patients receive safe, high-quality care. Not all rules improve care or safety, but all require time and action by your hospital and health system workforce. When these requirements are viewed as unnecessary, confusing or overly burdensome, they threaten workforce well-being and unnecessarily hinder care and decrease access. It’s become both a workforce and patient issue.

Join WHA General Council Matthew Stanford and WHA Senior Vice President Workforce and Clinical Practice Ann Zenk at the next workforce webinar session to learn about Regulations that Don’t Work and WHA efforts to urge state and federal policymakers to prioritize cutting wasteful regulatory red tape. Participants in the second session of the 2026 WHA Health Care Workforce webinar series will learn about the workforce impact of unnecessary rules and regulations and discuss how policymakers and WHA members can work together to relieve workforce burden.

The second webinar in the 2026 workforce series, “Relieve Workforce Burden,” is taking place on May 12 from 9 – 10 a.m. For more information on this complimentary webinar, including registration, click here. WHA also encourages you to gather and share examples of frustrating rules, requirements or processes that provide little to no value to patient care and add to wasted time and resources. Share your story here.