PROCLAMATION OF THE GROVER BEACH CITY COUNCIL
“NATIONAL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE MONTH
NOVEMBER 2023”
WHEREAS, hospice and palliative care empower people facing a serious or life-limiting illness to live as fully as possible, ensuring people dignity, choice, and quality of life; 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, in an increasingly fragmented and broken health care system, hospice is one of the few sectors that demonstrates how health care can – and should – work at its best for its patient; and
WHEREAS, a growing body of peer-reviewed research indicates that timely access to hospice and palliative care can decrease hospitalizations and Emergency Room visits and increase quality of life for patients and family caregivers; and
WHEREAS, every year more than 1.56 million Americans living with life-limiting illness, and their families, received care from the nation’s hospice programs in communities throughout the United States; 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, Hospice of San Luis Obispo County, Central Coast Hospice, Dignity Health Hospice, and Wilshire Hospice provide hospice care and bereavement counseling respectively to individuals within the County of San Luis Obispo.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Grover Beach City Council does herby officially proclaim November 2023, as ”National Hospice and Palliative Care Month” and encourages citizens to increase their understanding and awareness of care at the end of life and to observe this month with appropriate activities and programs.
IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of Grover Beach to be affixed this 13th day of November, 2023.
Karen Bright, Mayor
Wendi Sims, City Clerk
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