Council for Quality Respiratory Care Statement on Passing of Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 /EMWNews/ -- The Council for Quality

Respiratory Care (CQRC), an alliance of the nation's 11 leading home oxygen

therapy providers and manufacturers, deeply regrets the untimely passing of

Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH-11). We offer our prayers and

thoughts to her family, friends and staff.



    The Council for Quality Respiratory Care is a group of the nation's

leading home oxygen therapy providers and manufacturers, representing

nearly one half of 1.4 million Medicare patients who depend on the home

oxygen benefit for their care in order to live in an independent

environment.