Protecting and advancing CRNA practice in California.
CANA's advocacy team represents California's nurse anesthetists in the Capitol, with state agencies, and inside the institutions that govern our scope. We defend the opt-out, protect CRNA practice authority, and make sure our voice is in every room where anesthesia policy is written.
Practice questions, authoritatively answered.
CANA maintains a living reference for the questions California CRNAs actually ask — scope, supervision, authority, billing, and the standardized-procedure framework. Searchable, sourced, and kept current by the Practice Committee.
Policy changes when CRNAs show up.
Grassroots is how CRNAs make sure the people making decisions about our practice have heard from the people doing the work.
Advocacy News & Updates
AB 876 (Flora) Moves to Governor Newsom’s Desk
Today, Emily Francke, CRNA, President of the California Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (CANA), issued the following statement in response to the California Legislature passing AB 876 (Flora) with strong, bipartisan support.
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Central California feeds the state and the nation. Yet too often, our region does not receive the same investment in health care that we give back in food, energy, and labor. Rural families deserve better.
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AB 876 (Flora) Passes Out of First Policy Committee Hearing
(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Today, Emily Francke, CRNA, President of the California Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (CANA), issued the following statement in response to the California Assembly Committee on Business and Professions passing AB 876 by Assemblymember Heath Flora (R-Ripon) on a vote of 15-1: “We are thankful and encouraged by yesterday’s vote in the Assembly Business and Professions Committee to…
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