PRINTER'S NO. 356
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.35
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY BOSCOLA, MILLER, HUGHES, FONTANA, TARTAGLIONE,
SCHWANK, COSTA, HAYWOOD, STREET AND CAPPELLETTI,
MARCH 10, 2025
REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, MARCH 10, 2025
A RESOLUTION
Designating October 1, 2025, as "Pennsylvania Latino and Latina
Physician Day" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, The Latino and Latina population in the United
States is projected to rise from 42 million individuals in 2005
to 128 million individuals by 2050, and Latinos and Latinas
comprise 60% of the population growth in the United States; and
WHEREAS, According to the 2020 Census Profile of Pennsylvania
released by the National Association of Latino Elected and
Appointed Officials Educational Fund in 2021, between 2000 and
2010, Latinos accounted for more than three-fourths of
Pennsylvania's population growth; and
WHEREAS, As of 2021, the number of Pennsylvania Latinos
nearly doubled during the previous 10 years, easily outpacing
the national Latino population growth rate of 43%; and
WHEREAS, By 2050, Latinos and Latinas will likely account for
more than one in four individuals in the United States and one
in three children in the United States; and
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Latino or Latina, and less than 4% of physicians in Pennsylvania
are Latino or Latina; and
WHEREAS, The Latino and Latina population faces significant
barriers to medical care, including high poverty, fewer
facilities in Latino and Latina communities and language and
cultural barriers; and
WHEREAS, A lack of diversity in the medical field leads to
worse health outcomes for Latino and Latina patients, including
higher rates of chronic disease and maternal mortality; and
WHEREAS, Research shows that when physicians are of the same
ethnicity, culture and language as the patients of those
physicians, care and outcomes improve; and
WHEREAS, The first "National Latino and Latina Physician Day"
occurred across the United States on October 1, 2022, and was
supported by multiple national organizations and the Latino and
Latina community, including premedical students, resident
physicians and attending physicians; and
WHEREAS, Federal support for the continued designation of
October 1 as "National Latino and Latina Physician Day" is
expressed in H. Res. 734 of the 118th Congress; and
WHEREAS, The designation of October 1, 2025, as "Pennsylvania
Latino and Latina Physician Day" will bring awareness to the
benefits Latino and Latina physicians bring to the growing
Latino and Latina population and the health of the residents of
this Commonwealth; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate designate October 1, 2025, as
"Pennsylvania Latino and Latina Physician Day" in Pennsylvania.
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