SRES 417119th CongressPassed Senate

A resolution supporting the designation of the week of September 14 through September 20, 2025, as "Telehealth Awareness Week".

Introduced: Sep 19, 2025

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This is a Senate resolution designating a specific week, September 14–20, 2025, as “Telehealth Awareness Week.” It recognizes telehealth as a way to deliver health care across distances, support access to care, and help address health care workforce shortages. The resolution notes favorable Medicare usage and patient satisfaction with telehealth, highlights its role in behavioral health and care for rural and underserved communities, and urges steps to raise awareness, provide resources, collect data, and maintain ongoing access to telehealth across settings. As a resolution, it is a non-binding statement that expresses support and recommendations rather than creating new laws or funding.

Key Points

1Designation of Telehealth Awareness Week: The Senate designates September 14–20, 2025, as “Telehealth Awareness Week.”
2Recognition of telehealth’s impact: The resolution emphasizes telehealth as a key means of delivering care, improving access, and addressing workforce shortages, including in rural and underserved areas.
3Data and measurement emphasis: It urges efforts to collect and analyze data on telehealth’s impacts to better understand its benefits and inform policy.
4Resource and awareness focus: It calls for increasing awareness of telehealth benefits and providing resources for both health care providers and patients.
5Commitment to ongoing access: It promotes continued, uninterrupted access to telehealth for all communities and across different health care settings.

Impact Areas

Primary group/area affected: Medicare beneficiaries and other patients who use or could benefit from telehealth, especially in rural or underserved regions; health care providers delivering telehealth services.Secondary group/area affected: Caregivers, families, health care facilities (including federally qualified health centers and rural clinics), and policymakers shaping telehealth policy and coverage.Additional impacts: Could inform future legislative or administrative action by highlighting the importance of telehealth, supporting data collection efforts, and encouraging stakeholders to maintain or expand telehealth access without binding funding or mandates.

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