Proclamation 5934 --
National Visiting Nurse Associations Week, 1989
By
the President of the
A
Proclamation
The
Visiting Nurse Associations of America have served homebound Americans since
1885 by offering excellent personalized home health care and support services
in urban and rural communities.
These
voluntary, independently operated Associations supply a wide range of services,
including nursing care by registered nurses; homemaking, therapy, and social
services by qualified specialists; friendly visiting services; and many other
forms of assistance provided by volunteers in each community served by an
Association.
The
care provided by the Associations enables hundreds of thousands of Americans to
recover from illnesses and injury in the comfort and security of their homes,
regardless of their ability to pay. Thousands of patients with mental or
physical handicaps or with chronically disabling illnesses would be unable to
remain at home without the therapeutic benefits of the Associations' care and
support services.
The
Congress, by Public Law 100 - 493, has designated the week of February 19
through February 25, 1989, as ``National Visiting Nurse Associations Week'' and
authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of
this week.
Now,
Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the
In
Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of January, in
the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, and of the
Ronald
Reagan
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