Bill Text: CA SCR85 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Nursing Home Caregiver Professionals and Long Term Care

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-09-18 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 180, Statutes of 2015. [SCR85 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SCR85-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 85	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  180
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2015
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hall
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Mendoza)
   (Coauthors: Senators Lara, Leyva, and Mitchell)

                        AUGUST 17, 2015

   Relative to the Nursing Home Caregiver Professionals and Long Term
Care Provider Month.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 85, Hall. Nursing Home Caregiver Professionals and Long Term
Care Provider Month.
   This measure would recognize the month of November 2015 as the
Nursing Home Caregiver Professionals and Long Term Care Provider
Month.



   WHEREAS, There are 136,000 skilled nursing home professionals in
California, of which 47,000 workers deliver quality institutional
care to our most vulnerable residents, including seniors, adults, and
children with disabilities in California; and
   WHEREAS, The number of seniors requiring long term care will
drastically increase as the number of Californians who are 65 years
of age or older is estimated to grow to nine million people in the
next 15 years; and
   WHEREAS, All nursing home residents deserve quality care and their
direct care professionals merit a safe working environment to help
individuals recover from surgery and heal from trauma; and
   WHEREAS, Nursing home caregivers provide essential services to
residents that maintain the highest practicable physical, mental, and
psychosocial well-being of the people they serve; and
   WHEREAS, A fundamental part of providing quality long-term care is
having a sufficient number of direct care staff available to build
rapport with consumers and treat consumers in a dignified manner; and

   WHEREAS, The work of nursing home caregivers often goes unnoticed,
as do the financial struggles caregivers and their families
experience in order to provide this lifeline service to those in
need; and
   WHEREAS, Increasing the number of nursing home caregivers in
facilities across the state is an integral part of quality care; and
   WHEREAS, Providing long-term care workers with a living wage will
generate the demand for goods and services in the local economy,
stimulate increased employment opportunities, and drive workers and
their families one step closer to getting out of poverty; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature recognizes the month of
November 2015 as Nursing Home Caregiver Professionals and Long Term
Care Provider Month, and that the Legislature stands united with
nursing home direct care professionals, acknowledging the essential
work and contributions they bring to counties and cities of the state
and supporting their efforts to lift themselves and their
communities out of poverty; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.