Bill Text: CA SCR44 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Concurrent Resolution 44 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Hospital Week.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-20 - Referred to Com. on RLS. [SCR44 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SCR44-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Concurrent Resolution

No. 44

Introduced by Senator Atkins
(Coauthor: Senator Pan)

May 10, 2021

Relative to Hospital Week.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SCR 44, as introduced, Atkins. Hospital Week.

This measure would declare that the Legislature recognizes the week of May 9, 2021, to May 15, 2021, inclusive, as Hospital Week, and would recognize the life-saving contributions of hospitals in this state during the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic.

Fiscal Committee: NO

WHEREAS, The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) public health emergency struck the State of California with great impact, leading to more than 4 million diagnoses, 62,000 deaths, and massive closures of significant sectors of the state’s economy; and

WHEREAS, California’s more than 400 hospitals were called upon to quickly respond to COVID-19. Those hospitals responded by converting physical space, suspending nonessential procedures, purchasing mass quantities of personal protective equipment, hiring additional staff, and establishing new ways to move and care for patients; and

WHEREAS, California’s hospitals and health care workers provided care to more than 307,000 people diagnosed with COVID-19, and they have saved hundreds of thousands of lives; and

WHEREAS, California’s hospitals also made significant investments to care for their workforce and communities beyond the need for clinical care, including providing childcare services, housing, and broad support programs, which tended to the mental and emotional well-being of those individuals on the front lines; and

WHEREAS, The state recognizes the special place hospitals and health care workers have in California as a cornerstone of our health care system as these hospitals and health care workers tend to the sickest, most vulnerable residents; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the Legislature recognizes the week of May 9, 2021, to May 15, 2021, inclusive, as Hospital Week, and recognizes the life-saving contributions of hospitals and health care workers during the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis; and be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.