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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 107
Author: Bloom (D)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 5/15/14 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT : Year of the Family Physician
SOURCE : California Academy of Family Physicians
DIGEST : This resolution designates 2014 as the Year of the
Family Physician.
ANALYSIS : This resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1.Family physicians are trusted members of their communities,
dedicated to keeping patients as healthy as possible
throughout their lives, and family physicians' practices are a
place for patients and families to turn to for care and needed
advice.
2.Family physicians integrate the biological, clinical, and
behavioral sciences to provide continuing and comprehensive
health care and the care provided by family physicians covers
all ages, sexes, each organ system, and every disease.
3.Family physicians can provide patients with a patient-centered
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medical home through which they receive a full range of
services within the context of a continuing relationship with
their family physician and are dedicated to treating the whole
person, integrating care for male and female patients of all
ages within the context of the community, and advocating for
the patient in an increasingly complex health care system.
4.Family physicians are geographically distributed across the
country more equitably than other health care providers and
are accessible to disadvantaged populations that lack access
to quality health care, which in turn helps to reduce health
disparities.
5.Meeting the "Triple Aim" of better health, better care, and
lower costs in our health care system means placing a new
emphasis on primary care as provided by family physicians.
6.The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will lead
to a significant demand for experienced and well-trained
health care professionals who can treat a wide variety of
health conditions and compassionately guide patients through
our complex health care system.
This resolution declares 2014 as the "Year of the Family
Physician" in recognition of the critically important role
family physicians will play for patients and communities during
the implementation of the ACA and beyond.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 5/22/14)
California Academy of Family Physicians (source)
AFSCME
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 5/15/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández,
Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,
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Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. Pérez, V.
Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner,
Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Mansoor, Vacancy
JL:k 5/22/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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