The American Nurses Association and American Hospital Association released an online advertisement Wednesday urging Congress to reject spending cuts that would further affect patient care and jobs in the healthcare sector.

The ad is set to run in Politico, Roll Call and CQ Today. It cites an independent analysis that found 195,000 healthcare jobs already will be lost during the next 10 years through automatic spending cuts from last year's deficit reduction agreement.

Further cuts to hospital care in a spending bill that has passed the House of Representatives, but not the Senate, would result in 83,000 lost jobs during a span when hospitals can use the additional personnel to care for an anticipated influx of elderly patients in coming years.

In the advertisement, the ANA and AHA noted that hospitals "continue to be a bright spot in the nation's employment picture," having added 9,800 jobs in December and 89,000 jobs in 2011.

"Hospitals are the second-largest private-sector employer, employing 5.4 million people nationwide and supporting scores of local businesses in communities everywhere," according to the ad. "While it considers ways to reduce the deficit, Congress should reject cuts that would hurt patients' care — and the one sector of the economy actually creating jobs."