PRINTER'S NO. 3048
No. 251 Session of 1990
INTRODUCED BY WOZNIAK, MILLER, BELARDI, MELIO, TRELLO,
TANGRETTI, HERMAN, NOYE, RUDY, WASS, COLAIZZO, DeWEESE,
JOHNSON, HESS, PISTELLA, DeLUCA, McHALE, COY, DEMPSEY,
GRUPPO, FREEMAN, GEIST, STAIRS, LINTON, JADLOWIEC, BOWLEY,
BATTISTO, PRESTON, G. SNYDER, MORRIS, FLEAGLE, CAPPABIANCA,
ARGALL, SCHULER AND LLOYD, FEBRUARY 5, 1990
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, FEBRUARY 5, 1990
A RESOLUTION
1 Directing the Health and Welfare Committee to investigate the
2 availability of family health care practitioners in rural
3 areas.
4 WHEREAS, The practice of family medicine as an advanced
5 concept in health care has become a vital and successful concept
6 in maintaining the well-being of Pennsylvania families; and
7 WHEREAS, Rural Pennsylvania areas have traditionally been
8 neglected by health care practitioners, to the detriment of a
9 large segment of the Pennsylvania population located in those
10 areas; and
11 WHEREAS, It is in the best interest of the Commonwealth of
12 Pennsylvania that all its citizens, rural as well as
13 metropolitan, be given access to up-to-date, state-of-the-art
14 health care practices; therefore be it
15 RESOLVED, That the Health and Welfare Committee of the House
16 of Representatives investigate the status of medical services in
1 rural areas, particularly the availability of family health care
2 practitioners to rural families; and be if further
3 RESOLVED, That the committee may hold public hearings, take
4 testimony and make its study at such places as it deems
5 necessary within the Commonwealth. Each member of the committee
6 shall have the power to administer oaths and affirmations to
7 witnesses appearing before the committee; and be it further
8 RESOLVED, That the committee make a report of its findings
9 and recommendations to the House of Representatives not later
10 than June 30, 1990.
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