{"id":79,"date":"2019-12-12T20:47:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatplainsacc.wpengine.com\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2025-02-26T10:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T10:15:08","slug":"advocacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/?page_id=79","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ACC-NorthDakota-Advocacy-2025-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ACC-NorthDakota-Advocacy-2025-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ACC-NorthDakota-Advocacy-2025-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ACC-NorthDakota-Advocacy-2025-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ACC-NorthDakota-Advocacy-2025-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ACC-NorthDakota-Advocacy-2025-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ACC-NorthDakota-Advocacy-2025-02-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ACC-NorthDakota-Advocacy-2025-02-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ACC-NorthDakota-Advocacy-2025-02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ACC-NorthDakota-Advocacy-2025-02-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ACC-NorthDakota-Advocacy-2025-02-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ACC-NorthDakota-Advocacy-2025-02-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ACC\u2019s North Dakota-Great Plains Chapter Governor Mevan N. Wijetunga, MD, FACC, and Aaron Smith, MD, FACC, joined the American Heart Association\u2019s lobby day in Bismarck, ND to advocate for cardiac emergency response plans in schools, heart-healthy school meals, and raising the commercial tobacco tax. They also met with key state legislators to establish meaningful prior authorization reform by advancing S.B. 2280. Smith submitted written testimony in favor of the bill at the most recent Senate Industry and Business Committee hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACC\u2019s North Dakota-Great Plains Chapter Governor Mevan N. Wijetunga, MD, FACC, and Aaron Smith, MD, FACC, joined the American Heart Association\u2019s lobby day in Bismarck, ND to advocate for cardiac emergency response plans in schools, heart-healthy school meals, and raising the commercial tobacco tax. They also met with key state legislators to establish meaningful prior authorization reform by advancing S.B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatplainsacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}