Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act

Key Points

• Congress would extend key parts of a law that supports health care workers’ mental health and substance use care from 2025 through 2029.
• The bill updates an education and awareness effort that encourages doctors, nurses, and other health workers to actually use counseling and treatment when they need it.
• It would require this education and awareness effort to be reviewed or updated, and then looked at every year after that.
• Grant programs aimed at improving health care workers’ mental health could also support projects that reduce paperwork and other “administrative burden” that adds stress at work.
• Everyday impact: the goal is to reduce burnout and mental health crises among health workers, which can help patients by keeping more staff on the job and supported.

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