Front-line caregivers see the results of our broken healthcare system everyday. They see too many patients lose coverage because they lost their job. They see patients who bought insurance on their own for years suddenly unable to afford it. They see sicker patients and more crowded ERs.

That's why nurses, doctors, and other healthcare workers across the country have launched the Every Patient Matters campaign with the Partnership for Quality Care to ensure the voices of frontline caregivers and the stories of their patients are heard in the debate over healthcare reform.

Providers are partnering with their hospitals and healthcare facilities to sign surgical scrubs with stories and messages about our broken healthcare system and why healthcare reform is needed.

Here's one message from SEIU District 1199 New England member Wendy Laprade, a nurse at Woman and Infants Hospital in Providence, RI.

"Woman and Infants is where almost all Rhode Islanders enter the world and we see firsthand the impact that SCHIP and RIte Care has made in getting prenatal care for woman and newborns here in our state. Good preventative and primary care saves money for the system and results in better quality of life for the patient. We need to extend this to ALL of our people. That is what this debate is about."

Rep. James Langevin will join members at a scrub signing event in Rhode Island in early September.

And in Nevada, SEIU Local 1107 members launched their campaign this week at Catholic Healthcare West St. Rose Hospitals. Already, they've signed nearly 200 scrubs with story after story illustrating why healthcare reform is critical to improving patient care.

When lawmakers return to Washington next month, nurses, doctors, and other caregivers will deliver tens of thousands of these signed scrubs to the Capitol with one simple message: Every Patient Matters. Pass Healthcare Reform Now.