Agenda 11/08/2022 Item # 4D (Proclamation - National Hospice and Palliative Care Month)4.D
11/08/2022
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, 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 2022 be designated as
NATIONAL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE MONTH
DONE AND ORDERED THIS 8t" Day of November 2022.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
WILLIAM L. MCDANIEL, JR. , CHAIRMAN
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4.D
11/08/2022
COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Item Number: 4.13
Doc ID: 23760
Item Summary: Proclamation designating November 2022 as National Hospice and Palliative Care Month. To be
accepted by the following representatives of Avow Hospice, Naples, Florida: Mark Beland, Community Liaison,
Kerri Ervin, Chief Compliance Officer, Phyllis Hall, Chief Financial Officer, Jeffrey Alexander, Director of
Business Development, and Rebecca Gatian, Chief Clinical Officer.
Meeting Date: 11/08/2022
Prepared by:
Title: Customer Service Specialist — Communications, Government, and Public Affairs
Name: Aimee Trochessett
10/29/2022 12:54 PM
Submitted by:
Title: Communications, Govt. & Public Affairs Director — County Manager's Office
Name: John Mullins
10/29/2022 12:54 PM
Approved By:
Review:
Communications, Government, and Public Affairs Deborah Curry
County Manager's Office John Mullins Division Review
County Manager's Office John Mullins County Manager Review
Board of County Commissioners Geoffrey Willig Meeting Pending
Division Review Completed
10/31/2022 10:56 AM
Completed 11/01/2022 10:08 AM
Completed 11/01/2022 10:08 AM
11/08/2022 9:00 AM
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