Bill Text: PA SR378 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Recognizing the month of November 2012 as "National Hospice and Palliative Care Month" in Pennsylvania and encouraging all Pennsylvanians to increase their understanding and awareness of care at the end of life.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 15-8)

Status: (Passed) 2012-10-15 - Introduced and adopted [SR378 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SR378-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2477
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No. 378 Session of2012
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, ALLOWAY, BOSCOLA, BROWNE, COSTA, ERICKSON, FONTANA, GREENLEAF, KASUNIC, MENSCH, STACK, TARTAGLIONE, WASHINGTON, M. WHITE, VANCE, RAFFERTY, YUDICHAK, EARLL, WAUGH AND SCHWANK, OCTOBER 15, 2012
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, OCTOBER 15, 2012
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the month of November 2012 as "National Hospice and
Palliative Care Month" in Pennsylvania and encouraging all
Pennsylvanians to increase their understanding and awareness
of care at the end of life.
WHEREAS, Hospice and palliative care offer the highest
quality services and support to patients and family caregivers
facing serious and life-limiting illness; and
WHEREAS, Hospice care and palliative care providers take the
time to ask what is important to those they are caring for and
listen to what their patients and families say; and
WHEREAS, Skilled and compassionate hospice and palliative
care professionals, including physicians, nurses, social
workers, therapists, counselors, health aides and clergy,
provide comprehensive care focused on the wishes of each
individual patient; and
WHEREAS, Through pain management, symptom control, caregiver
training and assistance, and emotional and spiritual support,
patients are able to live fully up until the final moments,
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surrounded and supported by the faces of loved ones, friends and
committed caregivers; and
WHEREAS, The provision of quality hospice and palliative care
reaffirms the belief in the essential dignity of every person,
regardless of age, health or social status and that people at
every stage of human life deserve to be treated with the utmost
respect and care; and
WHEREAS, Every year more than 1.5 million Americans living
with life-limiting illness and their families receive care from
the nation's hospice programs in communities throughout the
United States; and
WHEREAS, More than 468,000 trained volunteers contribute 22
million hours of service to hospice programs annually; and
WHEREAS, Hospice and palliative care providers encourage all
people to learn more about options of care and to share their
wishes with family, loved ones and their health care
professionals; and
WHEREAS, The National Hospice and Palliative Care
Organization (NHPCO) and its family of affiliate organizations
based at the National Center for Care at the End of Life all
work to help NHPCO's more than 44,000 members work toward a
shared vision of a world where individuals and families facing
serious illness, death and grief will experience the best that
humankind can offer; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate recognize the month of November
2012 as "National Hospice and Palliative Care Month" in
Pennsylvania and encourage all Pennsylvanians to increase their
understanding and awareness of care at the end of life.
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