Bill Text: PA HR381 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Congratulating graduates of the Pennsylvania Empowered Expert Residents (PEER) Project and recognizing Friday, June 26, 2009, as "Pennsylvania Empowered Expert Residents (PEER) Day" in Pennsylvania.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 35-17)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-06-25 - INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35 [HR381 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR381-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  2301

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

No.

381

Session of

2009

  

  

INTRODUCED BY BROOKS, BAKER, BEYER, BOYD, CALTAGIRONE, CRUZ, P. COSTA, DiGIROLAMO, DONATUCCI, J. EVANS, EVERETT, GEIST, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HELM, HENNESSEY, KORTZ, KULA, MAHONEY, MAJOR, MILLARD, MOUL, MUNDY, MUSTIO, OBERLANDER, PAYNE, PICKETT, QUINN, RAPP, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROSS, SANTONI, SEIP, SWANGER, TALLMAN, VULAKOVICH, WATSON, YOUNGBLOOD AND DAY, JUNE 25, 2009

  

  

INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, JUNE 25, 2009  

  

  

  

A RESOLUTION

  

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Congratulating graduates of the Pennsylvania Empowered Expert

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Residents (PEER) Project and recognizing Friday, June 26,

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2009, as "Pennsylvania Empowered Expert Residents (PEER) Day"

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in Pennsylvania.

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WHEREAS, The Department of Aging administers the Long-Term

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Care Ombudsman Program Statewide for consumers 60 years of age

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or older, and the department partners with the 52 local Area

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Agencies on Aging in this Commonwealth; and

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WHEREAS, The ombudsman program supports and empowers

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consumers to resolve individual complaints involving long-term

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care services and also works to improve and enhance the long-

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term care system, its laws, regulations, policies and

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administration through public education and empowerment; and

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WHEREAS, Pennsylvania is the first state nationwide to

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creatively include a resident dimension within its ombudsman

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program to support individuals living in long-term care

 


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facilities and to educate residents and staff on resident rights

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in the 84 facilities across this Commonwealth where they reside;

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and

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WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Empowered Expert Residents (PEER)

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Project offers an additional mechanism to equip residents with

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the knowledge to enable them to be a part of the solution; and

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WHEREAS, The PEER Project was developed to train resident

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advocates to work from within the respective long-term care

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facilities where they reside to enhance the quality of care and

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quality of life; and

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WHEREAS, PEER Project graduates volunteer their time and

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expertise to self-advocate issues that resonate among their

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peers; and

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WHEREAS, The PEER Project, working with and supporting local

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ombudsman programs in counties throughout this Commonwealth has

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grown since its inception in June 2002; and

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WHEREAS, The PEER Project has graduated more than 650

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residents in long-term care facilities in the following 29

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counties: Cambria, Chester, Clearfield, Columbia, Montour, Elk,

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Jefferson, Lackawanna, Lebanon, Luzerne, Wyoming, Lycoming,

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Mercer, Mifflin, Juniata, Montgomery, Perry, Schuylkill,

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Crawford, Warren, McKean, Potter, Forest, Cameron, Sullivan,

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Carbon, Franklin, Blair and Beaver; and

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WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania State Long-Term Care Ombudsman

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Program recognizes PEER Project graduates as certified volunteer

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ombudsmen and congratulates all participants for promoting and

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educating advocacy among residents of long-term care facilities

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in this Commonwealth; therefore be it

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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives congratulate

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every PEER Project graduate's advocacy on behalf of their fellow

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residents in long-term care facilities and recognize June 26,

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2009, as "Pennsylvania Empowered Expert Residents (PEER) Day" in

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Pennsylvania.

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