BY .THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA 
 
A PROCLAMATION NURSE ANESTHETISTS WEEK 
 
WHEREAS: WHEREAS: WHEREAS: WHEREAS: WHEREAS: THEREFORE: 
 
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are essential to America's health care system, providing high-quality, cost-effective anesthesia care for nearly 150 years; and 
CRNAs are anesthesia specialists who are the hands-on providers of the approximately 32 million anesthetics administered annually to patients in our nation. Over 900 CRNAs practice in Georgia; and 
CRNAs are the sole anesthesia providers in more than two-thirds of all rural hospitals, affording these medical facilities obstetrical, surgical and trauma stabilization capabilities; and 
Whether the setting is urban or rural, large or small, nurse anesthetists play a vital role in providing quality health care to Georgians wherever anesthesia is delivered; and 
We are grateful to these individuals for their outstanding contributions to the field of medicine, and we are proud to recognize their continued commitment to excellence in health care delivery; now 
I, Nathan Deal, Governor of the state of Georgia, do hereby proclaim january 19-25, 2014, as NURSE ANESTHETISTS WEEK in Georgia. 
In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the Executive Department to be affixed this 1Qth day of january in the year of our Lord two thousand fourteen. 
 
ATTEST 
 
GOVERNOR