ADVOCACY SPOTLIGHT: Host a Facility Tour in 2025

ADVOCACY SPOTLIGHT

Representative Paul Tonko; Steven Hanks, MD, and Samuel Feldman, MD, during a June 2024 facility tour.

From left: Representative Paul Tonko (D-NY); Steven Hanks, MD, president and chief executive officer of Trinity Health New York, St. Joseph’s Health and St. Peter’s Health Partners; and Samuel Feldman, MD, medical director of St. Peter’s Ambulatory Surgery Center and former chief of surgery of St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, New York, during a June 2024 facility tour.

Host a Facility Tour in 2025

The program connects ASCA members with their elected officials

BY MAIA KUNKEL | JUNE-JULY 2025

KEY LEARNINGS

  • Facility tours establish a relationship with the office of your elected official
  • Lawmakers visiting ASCs could become cosponsors of ASC bills
  • Sometimes, advocacy and legislative wins result directly from these tours

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