March/April - West Virginia State Medical Association

REPORT OF RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE
February 16, 2013
Your Committee on Resolutions
has carefully considered the
Resolutions offered in the First
Session of the House of Delegates
on Saturday, February 16, 2013.
We are happy to report that a
number of interested physicians
appeared at the meeting of the
Committee on Saturday and
discussed in detail the Resolutions
pending before the Committee.
The cooperation of those
physicians present was most
helpful to the Committee in
reaching decisions and we express
appreciation to those who took the
time to attend the opening hearing.
Mr. Speaker, your Committee
assures the members of the
Association that the one and only
consideration that has guided the
Committee in its deliberations has
been the criteria as to whether each
of the resolutions was or would
be in the best interest of the entire
medical profession in West Virginia
in giving its patients the best of care.
Mr. Speaker, your Committee
considered Resolution 1,
pertaining to Honoring
Charles A. Hoffman, MD.
Mr. Speaker, your
Committee recommends that
Resolution 1 be adopted:
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED,
that the West Virginia State Medical
Association prominently and
publicly recognize the leadership,
accomplishments and dedicated
service of Charles ‘Carl’ A. Hoffman,
M.D., and the 40th Anniversary
(2012) of his service as President of
the American Medical Association.
Mr. Speaker, your Committee
moves the adoption of Resolution 1.
Mr. Speaker, your Committee
considered Resolution 2,
pertaining to Physician Led Patient
Centered Medical Homes.
Mr. Speaker, your
Committee recommends that
the Resolution 2 be adopted.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED,
that the West Virginia State Medical
Association support a Patient
Centered Medical Home model in
which a primary care physician (MD/
DO) leads an interdisciplinary team
of health care providers to ensure that
all facets of a patient’s health care
needs, whether preventative, acute
or chronic, are addressed in the most
effective and efficient manner possible
utilizing the best evidence, technology
and resources available, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that the West Virginia State Medical
Association assert that each patient
should have an ongoing relationship
with a personal physician (MD/
DO) who should lead the medical
home interdisciplinary team and
assume ultimate accountability
for each patient’s care.
Mr. Speaker, your Committee
moves the adoption of Resolution 2.
Mr. Speaker, your Committee
considered Resolution 3, pertaining
to West Virginia Sunrise Law and
Scope of Practice Expansion.
Mr. Speaker, your
Committee recommends that
Resolution 3 be adopted.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED,
that the West Virginia State Medical
Association strongly support
the state’s Sunrise Law, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that the West Virginia State Medical
Association strongly advocate for the
mandatory application of the Sunrise
Law in each and every case in which a
non-physician group or organization
proposes legislation or rules to revise
or expand their scope of practice.
Mr. Speaker, your Committee
moves the adoption of Resolution 3.
Mr. Speaker, your Committee
considered Resolution 4,
Coordination of Information.
Mr. Speaker, your Committee
recommends that Resolution
4 be adopted as amended:
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED,
that the West Virginia State
Medical Association actively
promote the need to enhance and
improve the coordination of patient
information across governmental
agencies to reduce or eliminate
redundancy and duplication.
Mr. Speaker, your Committee
moves the adoption of
Resolution 4 as amended.
Mr. Speaker, we wish to thank
the members of the WVSMA
who appeared before the
Committee for their participation,
patience, enthusiasm, wisdom,
endurance, and time devoted to
the study of the resolutions.
In addition to me, as Chairman,
the appointed members of the
Committee who participated
in these deliberations were:
Adam Breinig, DO, Chair
R. Austin Wallace, MD
Charles Whitaker, MD
Ken Hilsbos, MD
Reginald McClung, MD
Hoyt Burdick, MD
James Felsen, MD
David Avery, MD
Joseph Selby, MD
Douglas McKinney, MD
WVSMA Staff
Evan Jenkins, Executive Director
Respectfully submitted,
Adam Breinig, DO
Vice President 2012-2013
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