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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2016

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

HONORING NOLAN BYRNE, R.N., ON THE OCCASION OF HER RETIREMENT

     Introduced By: Representatives Naughton, McKiernan, Almeida, Craven, and Lombardi

     Date Introduced: May 25, 2016

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, Nursing requires tremendous compassion, competence, and caring,

resultantly, it was totally suited to the talents and sensibilities of Nolan Byrne. She is a board

certified nurse care manager and has a certificate in Gerontology; and

     WHEREAS, Ms. Byrne started her career with the state in 1989, but she had already

spent many years in various components of the health care delivery system. Her earliest days as a

nurse were as the Infection Control Nurse at Zambarano Hospital. She has also worked at

Landmark Hospital, the Department of Health, Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan and United Health

Care; and

     WHEREAS, In 2000, Ms. Byrne joined the staff of the Executive Office of Health and

Human Services (EOHHS) where she has spent the past 16 years in a variety of roles, but always

ensuring that the families, elders and disabled Medicaid recipients she worked with received all

the services that were available to them. Her colleagues at EOHHS have often commented that if

they ever needed a health care advocate, they would choose her; and

     WHEREAS, During her tenure at EOHHS, Ms. Byrne's many roles included managing

the Katie Beckett Program, serving as the Nurse Manager for the Rite @ Home Program and

helping ensure participants in the Communities of Care Program received all their needed

medications. She also served as the EOHHS designated contact to solve any concerns raised by

public officials such as Congressional Representatives, General Assembly members or the

Governor's Office; and

     WHEREAS, Throughout the course of her career, Nurse Byrne has particularly enjoyed

working with the elderly and disabled. She possesses an innate ability to solve all problems, big

and small and has always gone above and beyond to learn what her clients needed and to make

sure those needs were met; and

     WHEREAS, Nolan Byrne, R.N. has had a long and rewarding career in helping ensure

Rhode Islanders get the best possible health care and her service to the people of this state is

eminently worthy of our gratitude and recognition; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and

Providence Plantations hereby recognizes and honors Nolan Byrne, R.N. on the occasion of her

retirement. We thank her for all her efforts, and wish her good health, fulfillment and much

success in all her future endeavors; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Nolan Byrne, R.N.

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