Agenda 11/14/2023 Item # 4A (Proclamation - National Hospice and Palliative Care Month)11/14/2023
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, 1.72 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
2020, and that last year in Collier County, more than 3,000 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, by 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 2023 be designated as
NATIONAL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE MONTH
DONE AND ORDERED THIS 14th Day of November 2023.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
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RICK LOCASTRO, CHAIRMAN
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11/14/2023
COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Item Number: 4.A
Doc ID: 27096
Item Summary: Proclamation designating November 2023 as National Hospice and Palliative Care Month. To be
accepted by Mark Beland, Community Liaison, Avow Hospice, and other distinguished guests.
Meeting Date: 11/14/2023
Prepared by:
Title: Customer Service Specialist – County Manager's Office
Name: Aimee Trochessett
10/30/2023 4:37 PM
Submitted by:
Title: Management Analyst II – County Manager's Office
Name: Geoffrey Willig
10/30/2023 4:37 PM
Approved By:
Review:
County Manager's Office Geoffrey Willig County Manager Review Completed 10/31/2023 9:53 AM
Board of County Commissioners Geoffrey Willig Meeting Pending 11/14/2023 9:00 AM
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