Agenda 11/10/2020 Item #16H 1 (Proclamation - National Hospice & Palliative Care Month in Collier County)16.H.1
11 / 10/2020
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, for more than 40 years, hospice has helped provide comfort and dignity to
millions of people, allowing them to spend their final months at home,
surrounded by their loved ones; and
WHEREAS, the hospice model involves an interdisciplinary, team -oriented approach to
treatment, including expert medical care, quality symptom control, and
comprehensive pain management as a foundation of care; and
WHEREAS, beyond providing physical treatment, hospice attends to the patient's
emotional, spiritual and family needs, and provides family services like
respite care and bereavement counseling; and
WHEREAS, palliative care delivers expertise to improve quality of life and relief from
pain, can be provided at any time during an illness, and hospices are some
of the best providers of community -based palliative care; and
WHEREAS, hospice demonstrates how health care can - and should - work at its best
for its patient; and
WHEREAS, 1.55 million Americans living with life -limiting illness, and their families,
received care from the nation's hospice programs in communities throughout
the United States in 2018, and that last year in Collier County, 1,969
people living with a serious or life -limiting illness were cared for by the
nonprofit Avow hospice and palliative care companies; and
WHEREAS, hospice and palliative care organizations are advocates and educators about
advance care planning that help individuals make decisions about the care
they want; and
WHEREAS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have pledged to put
patients first in all of its programs - including hospice - ensuring a
coordinated and patient -led approach to care, protecting patient choice and
access to individualized services based on a patient's unique care needs and
wishes;
NOW THEREFORE, be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Collier
County, Florida, that November 2020 be designated as
NATIONAL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE MONTH
IN COLLIER COUNTY
DONE AND ORDERED THIS loth Day of November 2020.
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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
BURT L. SAUNDERS, CHAIRMAN
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16.H.1
11/10/2020
COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Item Number: 16.H.1
Doc ID: 14043
Item Summary: Proclamation designating November 2020 as National Hospice and Palliative
Care Month in Collier County. The proclamation will be mailed to Mark Beland, Community Liaison of
Avow Hospice, Naples, Florida.
Meeting Date: 11/10/2020
Prepared by:
Title: Customer Service Specialist — Communication and Customer Relations
Name: Aimee Trochessett
10/27/2020 2:50 PM
Submitted by:
Title: — Communication and Customer Relations
Name: Deborah Curry
10/27/2020 2:50 PM
Approved By:
Review:
Administrative Services Department Michael Cox Additional Reviewer
County Manager's Office Geoffrey Willig County Manager Review
Board of County Commissioners Mary,lo Brock Meeting Pending
Completed 10/28/2020 10:54 AM
Completed 11/02/2020 4:27 PM
11/10/2020 9:00 AM
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