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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Correspondence, White House Office of:
Records, 1981-1989
Folder Title: National Hospice Month
Box: 82 (1987)
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PRESIDENT THE 5 SEAL STATES OF THE UNITED
National Hospice Month, 1987
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The hospice movement in America is an organized voluntary effort to enhance
health care for dying people and their families. Hospices, expanding rapidly as
a vital component of health care, provide a compassionate way for terminally
ill patients to approach death naturally in a supportive environment and
surrounded by family members. Hospices foster personal care, comfort, and
full living, with attention to physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, especial-
ly those relating to pain and grief. The enactment in recent years of a
permanent Medicare hospice benefit and an optional Medicaid benefit makes
this care a possibility for more Americans.
The most important focus of hospice care is concern for patients and their
families. This emphasis on the sanctity of human life and the dignity and
worth of every individual is exactly why we set aside a time to salute the
professional staffs of our Nation's approximately 1,700 hospices and the
thousands of volunteers who give freely of themselves in this endeavor.
The Congress, by House Joint Resolution 234, has designated November 1987
as "National Hospice Month" and has authorized and requested the President
to issue a proclamation in observance of this month.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim November 1987 as National Hospice Month. I
urge all government agencies, the health care community, appropriate private
organizations, and the people of the United States to observe the month of
November with appropriate programs and activities to recognize and support
hospice care.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day
of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and
twelfth.
Ronald Reagan