WHEREAS, pharmacists are experts in the successful use of today’s complex medications; and

        WHEREAS, patients in hospitals and health systems receive better care when pharmacists are directly involved in medication management decisions; and

        WHEREAS, pharmacists’ direct involvement in patient care helps reduce unnecessary costs and burdens on the health system; and

        WHEREAS, the pharmacists and pharmacy technicians practicing in the hospitals and health systems of Idaho contribute to the health and well-being of our citizens; and

        WHEREAS, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the IDAHO SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS have declared October 21-27, 2007 National Hospital & Health-System Pharmacy Week;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C. L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the Great State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim October 21-27, 2007 as

HOSPITAL & HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACY 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 Boise, Idaho, on this 19th day of October in the year of our Lord two-thousand and seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-second and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred eighteenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE