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Executive Department |
The Office of the Governor |
State Capitol |
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WHEREAS, this year MedicAlert, the
nation’s largest nonprofit health informatics organization built around a
repository of health information, is celebrating its 50th year of helping save
lives and reducing pain and suffering; and
WHEREAS, MedicAlert was founded in 1956 by Dr. Marion C. Collins and Mrs. Chrissie Collins of Turlock, California, and now has more than 4 million members world wide with 10,179 in Idaho; and WHEREAS, MedicAlert is committed to providing technology based solutions and is an active member and a leader in developing interoperability standards with all the major Healthcare IT standard organizations to provide members with access to their personal electronic health records 24 hours a day; and WHEREAS, the MedicAlert Foundation has provided 50 years of extraordinary service to the people of the United States and the State of Idaho, saving an estimated 80,000 lives in this country and providing comfort and assistance to many more with affiliates in nine countries; and WHEREAS, today, MedicAlert is depended upon in times of individual emergencies and natural disasters to provide critical medical information to medical professionals in their time of need in order to spare needless pain and suffering due to mistreating unknown medical conditions; NOW, THEREFORE, I, DIRK KEMPTHORNE, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim March 26th, 2006, to be MEDIC ALERT DAY in Idaho.
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WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great
Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this twenty-third day of
November in the year of our Lord two-thousand and five and of the Independence
of the United States of America the two hundred thirtieth and of the Statehood
of Idaho the one hundred sixteenth.
