Meet fshla
The First State Health Leaders Alliance, FSHLA, is a group of leading health advocates who have joined forced to strengthen healthcare in Delaware. Formed in March 2025, the alliance issued a joint agenda with a focus on collaboration and coordination across sectors, emphasizing that solutions for healthcare are shared, not siloed. The advocates have expertise across the healthcare continuum including nursing and physician practice, public health and medicine, advocacy for persons with disabilities, home care, facilities, and hospitals.
Our Core Advocacy Items Are:
- Advance health workforce development to address shortages across a number of professions.
- Advocate for adequate reimbursement rates to ensure healthcare sustainability.
- Fight for prior authorization reform to ease patient access to care and reduce the burden on the health workforce.
- Invest in public health and emergency preparedness to support health workers and our most vulnerable.
- Create a culture of safety free of workplace violence for health workers.
- Remove healthcare barriers and promote health literacy to ensure care for all.
- Enhance transitions of care to improve a patient’s care coordination across all health settings.
- Champion affordable housing solutions that support aging in place, health promotion and success, health workforce recruitment and retention, and community living for those with disabilities.
