Bill Text: MI HR0255 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: A resolution to declare March 2022 as Athletic Trainer Month in the state of Michigan.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2022-03-22 - Adopted [HR0255 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HR0255-Enrolled.html
house resolution no.255
Reps. Beeler, Bezotte, Brann, Breen, Haadsma, Marino, Sabo, Sneller and Thanedar offered the following resolution:
A resolution to declare March 2022 as Athletic Trainer Month in the state of Michigan.
Whereas, Athletic trainers have a long history of providing quality health care for many types of patients and have acquired specific knowledge and skills through their nationally regulated educational processes; and
Whereas, Nearly 1,700 athletic trainers are licensed in the state of Michigan to provide healthcare services including risk management and injury prevention, clinical evaluation and assessment, immediate care and treatment, and the rehabilitation and reconditioning of an individual’s injury or illness, or both, and provide these services under the direction of, on the prescription of, or in collaboration with a physician; and
Whereas, The National Athletic Trainers Association is the professional organization serving 45,000 certified athletic trainers, students of athletic training, and other health care professionals worldwide in “Providing Health Care Everywhere" including professional and Olympic sports, colleges and universities, high schools, clinics, rural and urban hospitals, urgent and ambulatory care centers, corporate and industrial settings, performing arts centers, military branches, police and fire departments and physician practices; and
Whereas, Leading organizations concerned with athletic training and health care have joined together in a common desire to raise public awareness of the importance of the athletic training profession and to emphasize the importance of quality health care within the aforementioned settings. Such an effort will promote the athletic training profession and provide compassionate health care for all; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representative, That the members of this legislative body declare March 2022 as Athletic Trainer Month in the state of Michigan.
