WHEREAS, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are essential to Idaho’s healthcare system, providing
high-quality, cost-effective anesthesia care; and

        WHEREAS, CRNAs are anesthesia specialists who administer approximately 85% of the anesthetics given to patients each year in the State of Idaho; and

        WHEREAS, CRNAs are the sole anesthesia providers in more than 90% of Idaho’s rural hospitals, affording those medical facilities obstetrical, surgical, and trauma stabilization capabilities; and

        WHEREAS, Idaho CRNAs practice in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered:  Traditional hospital surgical suites and obstetrical delivery rooms; the offices of dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, and plastic surgeons; ambulatory surgical centers; U.S. Military and Public Health Services, and are the sole providers of anesthesia at the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim January 21 through 27, 2007 to be

NURSE  ANESTHETISTS  WEEK

in Idaho.

IN 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 22^nd day of January in the year of our Lord two-thousand and seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.       

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE