January

• Thyroid Awareness Month
• 24 - 31  National Nurse Anesthetists Week

February

• 1 - 7  Patient Recognition Week
• National Cancer Prevention Month

March

• National Social Worker's Month
• National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
• 7 - 13  Patient Safety Awareness Week
• 15 - 19  Long Term Care Administrators Week
• 30  National Doctor's Day

April

• Cancer Control Month
• Counseling Awareness Month
• 16 - National Healthcare Decisions Day
• 22 - 24 NHPCO's 25th Management and Leadership Conference and Exposition - Washington, DC
• 18 - 24  National Minority Cancer Awareness Week
• 18 - 24  National Volunteer Week
• 21  Administrative Professionals Day

May

• Critical Care Awareness Month
• National Mental Health Month
• Older American Month
• Oncology Nursing Month
• 6 - 12  Nurses Week
• 9 - 15  National Nursing Home Week

June

• 10-17 National Nursing Assistant week

July

• 11 - 17  National Therapeutic Recreation Week

August

• 23  Health Unit Coordinators Day
• 5-7  NHPCO’s Special Topic Conference, Developing the Care Continuum: Innovative Models to Meet the Unique Needs of Patients/Families - Boston, MA

September

• Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month
• Pain Awareness Month
• Childhood Cancer Month
• Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
• Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
• 13 - 15  - The 11th Clinical Team Conference – Nashville, TN

October

• National Physical Therapy Month
• National Pharmacy Month
• National AIDS Awareness Month
• National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• 6 - 12  National Physician Assistants Day
• 9  World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
• 13 Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
• 19 - 25 National Message Therapy Awareness Week
• 20 - 26  National Pastoral Care Month
• 24 - 30 Respiratory Care Week
• 24 - 30  Spiritual Care Week

November

• National Hospice/Palliative Care Month
• Lung Cancer Awareness Month
• National Family Caregivers Month
• Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
• National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month
• 11  Veteran's Day

December

• 1  World AIDS Day

For more health observance days, weeks, and months, visit the Department of Health and Human Services Web site.