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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

HONORING STEVEN R. DETOY ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT AFTER

THIRTY YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE WITH THE RHODE ISLAND MEDICAL

SOCIETY

     Introduced By: Representatives McNamara, Shekarchi, Blazejewski, Filippi, Ackerman,
Kennedy, Ajello, Tanzi, Fenton-Fung, and Fellela

     Date Introduced: June 02, 2022

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, Steve DeToy has decades of experience effectively advocating on behalf of

physicians and their patients, making health care stronger and better in Rhode Island; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. DeToy always ensured that the legislature understood physician needs

while navigating the seismic shifts that occurred in healthcare delivery, financing, and in

preserving patients' choice; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. DeToy encouraged and led the Rhode Island Medical Society (RIMS)

on issues that improved Rhode Islanders' health and well-being not just those that related to

physician practice; and

     WHEREAS, On behalf of the thousands of physicians in Rhode Island, Mr. DeToy

worked diligently with insurers, employers, regulators, and legislators, to help arrive at consensus

that preserved the physician/patient relationship; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. DeToy served many critical roles in the American Medical

Association’s (AMA) policy arm, including being chosen to lead the AMA’s Advocacy Resource

Center Executive Committee and served on the AMA’s State Action Team for federal affairs; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. DeToy has served on virtually every healthcare study commission in

Rhode Island and retains the institutional memory to recall the who, how, when, where, and why

of just about any piece of health care legislation that was crafted over the last 30 years; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. DeToy’s leadership on healthcare issues was recognized by the RI

Academy of Physician Assistants with an honorary title and by the RI State Nurses Association as

their 2009 “Friend of Nursing”; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. DeToy’s work with the legislature, which resulted in Rhode Island

being the first state to pass a bill approving harm reduction centers, will pay dividends for

decades in saving countless lives; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. DeToy has been a long-standing and active member of the Board of

Directors for the ACLU of Rhode Island, where his insights into the protection of privacy and the

intersection of medical issues with civil liberties principles have been invaluable to the

organization in navigating complex matters of interest to the ACLU; and

     WHEREAS, A graduate of Providence College, Mr. DeToy spent his career in advocacy

and government roles, working for Congresswoman Claudine Schneider, Deputy Director of

Community Development for the City of Cranston, and since 1992, Director of Government and

Public Affairs for the Rhode Island Medical Society; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. DeToy’s love for health care issues and physician advocacy was

matched only by his love for his family, golf, his Vespa, the New England Revolution, and

refereeing middle and high school soccer and lacrosse (often times running into members of the

legislature as they cheered on their children and criticized the refereeing); and

     WHEREAS, Mr. DeToy will become a grandpa for the first time this summer; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. DeToy took his work seriously, but never took himself too seriously,

which always made him a pleasure with whom to work; and

     WHEREAS, After 30 years of tirelessly advocating for the Rhode Island Medical

Society, Steve DeToy will be retiring; now, therefore be it

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

honors and thanks Steven DeToy for thirty years of dedicated service with the Rhode Island

Medical Society; 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 Mr. Steven R. DeToy.

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