Agenda 11/09/2021 Item # 4D (Proclamation - National Hospice & Palliative Care Month )11/09/2021
P R O C L A M A T I O N
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, more than
2,000 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 2021 be designated as
NATIONAL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE MONTH
IN COLLIER COUNTY
DONE AND ORDERED THIS 9th Day of November 2021.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
_______________________
PENNY TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN
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COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Item Number: 4.D
Doc ID: 20496
Item Summary: Proclamation designating November 2021 as National Hospice and Palliative
Care Month in Collier County. The proclamation will be mailed to Mark Beland, Community Liaison,
Avow Hospice, Naples, Florida
Meeting Date: 11/09/2021
Prepared by:
Title: Customer Service Specialist – Communications, Government, and Public Affairs
Name: Aimee Trochessett
10/31/2021 4:02 PM
Submitted by:
Title: – County Manager's Office
Name: John Mullins
10/31/2021 4:02 PM
Approved By:
Review:
Communications, Government, and Public Affairs Deborah Curry Division Review Completed 11/01/2021 9:26 AM
Agenda Clerk Preview Michael Cox Agenda Clerk Preview Completed 11/01/2021 10:38 AM
County Manager's Office John Mullins Division Review Completed 11/01/2021 11:57 AM
County Manager's Office John Mullins County Manager Review Completed 11/02/2021 10:06 AM
Board of County Commissioners Geoffrey Willig Meeting Pending 11/09/2021 9:00 AM
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