Bill Text: OR HJM26 | 2011 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Urging United States Department of Veterans Affairs to ensure community health needs are met through Roseburg VA Medical Center and encouraging establishment of full Level II hospital in Roseburg, Oregon.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-21 - Filed with Secretary of State. [HJM26 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HJM26-Enrolled.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

                            Enrolled

                     House Joint Memorial 26

Sponsored by COMMITTEE ON RULES

To the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas the United States Department of Veterans Affairs is
studying options to change the current structure of veterans'
health care provided by the Roseburg VA Medical Center in
Roseburg, Oregon; and
  Whereas options under consideration include downsizing and
outsourcing certain medical services that are vital to veterans
in this state; and
  Whereas a reduction in services will strain local medical
service providers and require rural veterans to travel a
significant distance to receive health care at the overpopulated
Portland VA Medical Center; and
  Whereas the Roseburg VA Medical Center provides comprehensive
care to more than 62,000 veterans who reside in central and
southern Oregon; and
  Whereas the Roseburg VA Medical Center campus consists of more
than 200 acres and 32 different health care facilities, providing
veterans with primary health care, surgical care, mental health
treatment and long term care; and
  Whereas the Roseburg VA Medical Center, which is the fourth
largest employer in Douglas County, is the only VA medical center
between Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco, California; and
  Whereas the entire Roseburg community has been working to
provide an Oregon Veterans' Home on the Roseburg VA Medical
Center property; and
  Whereas the location of the Oregon Veterans' Home in Roseburg
was approved by the state, in part, due to its proximity to the
medical services available at the Roseburg VA Medical Center;
now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:

  That we, the members of the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly,
respectfully urge the United States Department of Veterans
Affairs to ensure that community health needs are appropriately
met through the Roseburg VA Medical Center and encourage the
establishment of a full Level II hospital in Roseburg, Oregon;
and be it further
  Resolved, That a copy of this memorial shall be sent to the
United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs and to each member of
the Oregon Congressional Delegation.
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                                  Adopted by House May 23, 2011

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                                 Ramona Kenady Line, Chief Clerk
                                            of House

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                                  Bruce Hanna, Speaker of House

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                                 Arnie Roblan, Speaker of House

                                 Adopted by Senate June 13, 2011

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                                  Peter Courtney, President of
                                             Senate

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