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| 2015 -- H 6183 Enacted 05/07/2015 |
| H O U S E R E S O L U T I O N |
| PROCLAIMING MAY 7, 2015, AS "RHODE ISLAND HOME CARE AND HOSPICE DAY" |
| Introduced By: Representatives O'Brien, Slater, Diaz, Marshall, and McKiernan |
| Date Introduced: May 07, 2015 |
| WHEREAS, Home healthcare agencies licensed by the Rhode Island Department of |
| Health as home care providers, home nursing care providers, and hospice providers deliver a |
| variety of high quality healthcare services to Rhode Islanders in their homes; and |
| WHEREAS, Home is the preferred setting for healthcare service delivery among our |
| state’s elderly, disabled, and chronically ill as they strive to live independently in the comfort of |
| their own homes and their own communities for as long as they are able to safely; and |
| WHEREAS, Home healthcare allows families to stay together and provides for stronger |
| health, dignity, and comfort within our communities; and |
| WHEREAS, Home healthcare is the most cost-effective healthcare service delivery |
| setting versus hospitals, nursing homes, and other institutional-based healthcare settings for acute |
| and chronic conditions care; and |
| WHEREAS, Hospice care provides humane and comforting support for terminally ill |
| patients and their families, including pain management, social-emotional support, and spiritual |
| guidance during the final months, weeks, days, and hours of life; and |
| WHEREAS, Hospice care provides for the final piece in the full circle of life by |
| providing for the basic human needs of comfort in familiar surroundings by a community of care |
| that attains physical and emotional peace during the last stage of life; and |
| WHEREAS, The Rhode Island Partnership for Home Care is "Advancing quality |
| healthcare at home" as it demands of its provider member agencies and their staff to provide the |
| highest quality of healthcare service delivery to all Rhode Islanders in need; now, therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and |
| Providence Plantations hereby proclaims May 7, 2015, as "Rhode Island Home Care and Hospice |
| Day"; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That this House hereby supports access to quality healthcare services in the |
| home in order to provide Rhode Islanders with the ability to continue to live in our communities |
| for as long as they are able to do so safely; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That this House hereby recognizes, supports, and applauds our state’s |
| unsung workforce of home healthcare aides, nurses, social workers, and therapists that work |
| tirelessly to provide 24-hour clinical support, palliative care, homemaking, and daily living |
| assistance to Rhode Islanders in need of quality healthcare services in their homes; and be it |
| further |
| RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
| transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the Secretary of the Rhode Island Executive |
| Office of Health and Human Services, the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Human |
| Services, the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health, the Director of the Rhode Island |
| Division of Elderly Affairs, the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Behavioral |
| Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals, and the President of the Rhode Island |
| Partnership for Home Care. |
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