A joint resolution to designate the period commencing February 18, 1990, and ending February 24, 1990, as "National Visiting Nurse Associations Week".
PL 101-244 (S.J.Res.103), enacted 02/14/1990

PUBLIC LAW 101-244—FEB. 14, 1990 
104 STAT. 11 
Public Law 101-244 
101st Congress 
Joint Resolution 
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To designate the period commencing February 18, 1990, and ending February 24, 
Feb. 14, 1990 
1990, as "National Visiting Nurse Associations Week". 
[S.J. Res. 103] 
Whereas Visiting Nurse Associations have served homebound 
Americans since 1885; 
Whereas such Associations annually provide home care and support 
services to nearly 1,000,000 men, women, children, and infants; 
Whereas such Associations serve 504 urban and rural communities 
in 47 States; 
Whereas such Associations adhere to high standards of quality and 
provide personalized and cost-effective home health care and 
support regardless of an individual's ability to pay; 
Whereas such Associations are voluntary in nature; independently 
owned and community-based; 
Whereas such Associations ensure the quality of care through over-
sight provided by professional advisory committees composed of 
local physicians and nurses; 
Whereas such Associations enable hundreds of thousands of Ameri-
cans to recover from illness and injury in the comfort and security 
of their homes; 
Whereas such Associations ensure that individuals who are chron-
ically ill or who have physical and mental handicaps receive the 
therapeutic benefits of care and support services provided in the 
home; 
Whereas, in the absence of such Associations, thousands of patients 
with mental or physical handicaps or chronically disabling ill-
nesses would have to be institutionalized; 
Whereas such Associations provide a wide range of services, includ-
ing (where appropriate) health care, hospice care, personal care, 
homemaking, 
occupational, 
physical, 
and 
speech 
therapy, 
"friendly visiting services", social services, nutritional counseling, 
specialized nursing services, and meals on wheels; 
Whereas such Associations offer nursing care provided by registered 
nurses, homemaking, therapy, and social services by qualified 
specialists, and "friendly visiting services" by volunteers; 
Whereas in each community served by such an Association, local 
volunteers support the Association by serving on the board of 
directors, raising funds, visiting patients in their homes, assisting 
patients and nurses at wellness clinics, delivering meals on wheels 
to patients, running errands for patients, working in the Associa-
tion's office, and providing tender loving care; and 
Whereas the need for home health care for young and old alike 
continues to grow annually: Now, therefore, be it 
104 STAT. 12 
PUBLIC LAW 101-244—FEB. 14, 1990 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the period 
commencing February 18, 1990, and ending February 24, 1990, is 
designated as "National Visiting Nurse Associations Week", and 
the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation 
calling upon the people of the United States to observe such week 
with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities. 
Approved February 14, 1990. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S.J. Res. 103: 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 136 (1990): 
Jan. 30, considered and passed Senate. 
Feb. 6, considered and peissed House.