Editor’s Note: This article is a press release issued by the Alabama Nursing Home Association on May 6, 2014. The press release contains information about National Nursing Home Week and the full text of Gov. Bentley’s proclamation.
May 11-17 Proclaimed Nursing Home Week in Alabama by Governor Robert Bentley
MONTGOMERY – Alabama will join other states in celebrating National Nursing Home Week and recognizing nursing home residents and staff for their contributions to their community. Governor Robert Bentley recently signed a proclamation designating May 11-17 as National Nursing Home Week in Alabama.
The Governor’s proclamation commends nursing homes for helping Alabama’s nearly 24,000 nursing home residents live life to their fullest, and encourages citizens to visit a nursing home during this special week to learn how the “staff and volunteers in nursing homes help residents live life to their fullest potential by providing a holistic approach to long term care.”
“Our members invite you to visit the nursing home in your community during this special week and all year long,” Alabama Nursing Home Association President Frank Brown said. “When you visit, you’ll see how our skilled employees deliver high quality and compassionate rehabilitative, short term and long term health care to our residents.”
The theme for National Nursing Home Week is “Living the Aloha Spirit.” In Hawaii, by “Living the Aloha Spirit,” a person shows love and respect to others and joyfully shares life to create a better world. Nursing homes strive daily to attain this ideal for all individuals in their care by focusing on person-centered care and continuous improvement. Caregivers often form meaningful, enduring relationships with residents and families that are beneficial to everyone – to the resident and to the caregivers who often consider each other “family.” These workers help residents overcome the daily struggles associated with age, rehabilitation, and disability.
National Nursing Home Week has been sponsored each year since 1967 by the American Health Care Association. In Alabama, it is sponsored by the Alabama Nursing Home Association.
Picture of Gov. Bentley’s National Nursing Home Week proclamation. Click picture to view larger version.
The text of Gov. Bentley’s Nursing Home Week proclamation:
Proclamation
By the Governor of the State of Alabama
WHEREAS, the citizens of Alabama now residing in nursing homes have contributed immeasurably to the heritage, success and growth of our state; and
WHEREAS, our nursing home residents of any age or ability are themselves living history and a precious resource that should be treasured by all Alabamians; and
WHEREAS, the staff and volunteers in nursing homes help residents live life to their fullest potential by providing a holistic approach to long term care; and
WHEREAS, the member nursing homes of the Alabama Nursing Home Association are holding events in observance of National Nursing Home Week guided by this year’s national theme of “Living the Aloha Spirit”; and
WHEREAS, National Nursing Home Week begins on Mother’s Day, May 11 and continues through Saturday, May 17, 2014;
WHEREAS, this will be the 47th anniversary of National Nursing Home Week; and
NOW THEREFORE, I, Robert Bentley, Governor of the State of Alabama, do hereby proclaim May 11 through May 17, 2014, as
National Nursing Home Week in the State of Alabama and urge all Alabamians to join in the observance of National Nursing Home Week by visiting with the residents, staff and volunteers at a nursing home to learn about long term care and how nursing homes fulfill their promise of caring for the whole person.
Given Under My Hand and the Great Seal of the Office of the Governor at the State Capitol in the City of Montgomery on the 3rd day of April 2014.
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