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<br />NATIONAL HOSPICE MONTH <br />Hospice Care: Comfort and Compassion When It's Needed Most <br />November 2001 <br />~\-OOL\ <br />Office of the County Supervisors <br />Hall County <br /> <br />~Ol'''''''~ <br />t-" .. :~UO <br /> <br />Proclamation <br /> <br />Whereas, hospice care provides humane and comforting support for patients who are terminally ill <br />and their families, including pain control, palliative medical care and social, emotional and spiritual <br />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; . <br /> <br />Whereas, more than 40,000 professionals and 90,000 volunteers provide comforting and <br />supportive hospice services to nearly 700,000 patients and their families in an estimated 3,300 <br />hospice programs throughout the United States; <br /> <br />"$ <br /> <br />. Whereas, there is a need to increase public discussion about advances in pain control aod the <br />care options available to individuals of all ages, races and backgrounds who are at the end <of life; and <br /> <br />Whereas, Tabitha Health Care Services and St. Francis Home Health/Hospice, have joined the <br />National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, and an estimated 3,300 other hospice programs <br />to commemorate November 2001 as National Hospice Month and call on all Americans to observe <br />this occasion with appropriate ceremonies and activities; <br /> <br />Now, therefore, be it resolved that I, Richard Hartman, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, do <br />hereby proclaim November 2001 as <br /> <br />NA TIONAL HOSPICE MONTH <br /> <br />in the county of Hall and encourage the support and participation of all citizens in learning more about <br />the hospice concept of care for people who are elderly, disabled and infirm, <br /> <br />PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS ;:j~ DAY OF ~ d.OO/ <br />Resolution moved by Supervisor ':P6t. ,L/l 'f\ ~'" <br /> <br />Seconded by Supervisor ~.I r1 J e. (X ,..} "'S <br /> <br />VOTE: <br />Scott Arnold <br />Jim Eriksen <br />Richard Hartman <br />Bob Humiston <br />William p, Jeffries <br />Pamela Lancaster <br />Lonnie Logan <br /> <br />For----1L; Against_; Abstained_; Not Present_, <br />For:=I; Against_; Abstained_; Not Present_, <br />For X ; Against_; Abstained_; Not Present_, <br />For X. ; Against_; Abstained_; Not present_, <br />For-2L; Against_; Abstained_; Not Present_, <br />For....2L; Against_; Abstained_; Not present_, <br />For-X-; Against_; Abstained_; Not Present_, <br /> <br /> <br />HALL COUNTY BOARD OF Y~ORS <br />{l,....L0</7~ <br /> <br />Richard H man, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors <br />