[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 65 (Tuesday, May 17, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E996]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          IN TRIBUTE TO NITA CORRE FOR HER LIFETIME OF CARING

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                            HON. GWEN MOORE

                              of wisconsin

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 17, 2005

  Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize a true 
visionary, whose lifetime of caring has brought comfort to hundreds of 
older adults in my district. Nita Corre, longtime President of the 
Milwaukee Jewish Home and Care Center, currently presides over the 
Jewish Home and Care Foundation. For 35 years, Nita Corre has 
endeavored to envision and institute new models of care for older 
adults.
  Nita Corre's interest in the needs of older adults was awakened when 
she lived in Philadelphia, and served her husband's synagogue 
congregation by visiting elderly residents of nursing homes. Dismayed 
by the dispiriting conditions in many of these facilities, Nita Corre 
reflected on the alternative models of care she had witnessed growing 
up in Spain. Thus began her lifetime commitment to improving the 
quality of care for senior citizens.
  Older adults in the Fourth Congressional District have been the main 
beneficiaries of her commitment and passion. Beginning as a social work 
intern at the Milwaukee Jewish Home, she joined the professional staff 
in 1969 and was appointed the Home's director in 1978. Thanks to her 
efforts, the Milwaukee Jewish Home has become the model for elder care. 
Care facilities across the country have adopted many of the innovative 
programs she pioneered at the Milwaukee Jewish Home, which created new 
paradigms for supporting elders with dementia and providing 
companionship for elders facing the end of life.
  Not only did she design these programs, Nita Corre has been a 
tireless champion for their replication. She is nationally recognized 
as a gifted trainer, an energetic leader and a compassionate manager.
  It has been said that the moral test of a society is how it treats 
those who are in the dawn of life--the children, those who are in the 
twilight of life--the elderly, and those who are in the shadows of 
life--the sick, the needy and the handicapped. Nita Corre's life's work 
has been to attend to those in the twilight and the shadows, to shed 
light on their needs and find new ways to address their challenges. I 
am grateful to Nita Corre for her commitment to our elders and honored 
to recognize her for this Lifetime of Caring.

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