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<br />F19990488 <br /> <br />Office of the County Board of Supervisors <br />Hall County <br /> <br />Proclamation <br /> <br />Whereas, hospice care provides humane and comforting support for patients with terminal illnesses and <br />their families, including pain control, palliative medical care and social, emotional and spiritual services; and <br /> <br />Whereas, hospice fulfills basic human needs of feeling comfortable in familiar surroundings and of <br />attaining physical and emotional peace during the last stage of life: and <br /> <br />Whereas, more than 40,000 professionals and 90,000 volunteers provide comforting and supportive <br />hospice services to nearly 450,000 patients and their families in an estimated 3,200 hospice programs throughout the <br />United States; and <br /> <br />Whereas, there is a need to increase public discussion about advances in pain control and the care options <br />available to individuals of all ages, races and backgrounds who are at the end of life; and <br /> <br />Whereas, Tabitha Health Care Services, St Francis Home Health/Hospice, Home Care & Companions and <br />Option Care have joined the Hospice Association of America, the National Hospice Organization and an estimated <br />3,200 hospice providers in declaring November 1999 National Hospice Month and are call in on all Americans to <br />observe this occasion with appropriate ceremonies and activities; <br /> <br />Now, therefore, be it resolved that we, the Hall County Board of Supervisors do hereby proclaim <br />November 1999 as <br /> <br />NATIONAL HOSPICE MONTH <br /> <br />in the city/county of Hall and encourage the support and participation of all citizens in learning more about the <br />hospice concept of care for patients with terminal illnesses and their families. <br /> <br />In witness whereof I have hereunto set <br />my. hand c is a to be affixed, <br /> <br />