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BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Action Agenda
Item No. 1V la
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: November 16, 1993
SUBJECT: Home Care Week in Orange County
DEPARTMENT: Manager PUBLIC HEARING: YES: NO: X
ATTACHMENT(S) : Proclamation INFORMATION CONTACT: Manager' s
Office
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TELEPHONE NUMBER -
Hillsborough - 732-8181
Chapel Hill - 968-4501
Mebane - 227-2031
Durham - 688-7331
PURPOSE: To Proclaim November 28, - December 4 as Home Care
Week in Orange County.
BACKGROUND: The Home Health Agency of Chapel Hill has requested
the Board to proclaim Home Care Week in Orange
County to coincide with National and State
recognitions.
RECOMMENDATION(S) : The Manager Recommends that the Board
proclaim November 28, - December 4, 1993
Home Care Week in Orange County and
authorize the Chair to sign the
Proclamation.
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PROCLAMATION
The citizens of Orange County have benefited from the
advantages of home care for decades. As an alternative to.
institutional care, home care fosters a sense of independence
and self-respect by affording patients the right to receive
services in the comfort of their homes, with the reassurance and
companionship of family and friends.
Through the dedication and caring of Orange County home
care providers and caregivers, a wide variety of home care
services are available to our citizens. Home care allows
quality care to be brought to all those in need: the young and
old, indigent and wealthy, urban and rural. By caring for the
individual at home, home care not only strengthens the family
bond, but serves as a cost-effective method of care by avoiding
unnecessary institutional care.
Home care providers are recognized for their meaningful
work with our ill and disabled citizens. Through the special
relationships formed between patient and caregiver, a better
quality of life and sense of dignity are achieved by many Orange
County residents each year.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Orange County Board of Commissioners, do
hereby proclaim November 28, through December 4, 1993 as
"National Home Care Week" in Orange County and urge out
citizens to recognize the efforts of home care providers and the
families and friends of the elderly and disabled who provide
important services in the home.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hands and affixed the seal
of Orange County, this Sixteenth Day of November, Nineteen
Hundred and Ninety-Three.
Moses Carey, Jr. , Chair
Orange County Board of Commissioners