This is a 14-minute excerpt of University of Pennsylvania Professor Linda Aiken's May 2, 2023 testimony before the Pennsylvania House Health Committee. It focuses on the nursing staffing policy changes in a proposed new law that are needed to avoid 1,155 unnecessary patient deaths annually in the state's hospitals. Aiken, the Founding Director of the Penn School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) and a Senior Fellow at Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), is an internationally renowned expert in the field of nurse staffing and related operational efficiencies.

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