My name is Linda Krongaard-DeMong, RN, MSN. I am a retired C-ANP ( certified adult nurse-practitioner). I have been closely involved with Innisfree Village for the past 30 years. For many of those years I worked with a physician providing the majority of the villagers (both the co-workers with metal disabilities and the volunteers who live and work with the co-workers) with their primary health care. In all of those years, I cannot remember any medication errors. The volunteers are very consciousnesses. Before you add more and more requirement on the volunteers that assist with medication, you have to understand that Innisfree is not an assisted living facility. If it belongs under any title, it’s a home or a village for 36 functional mentally handicapped adults. They live in a village on 500 beautiful acres up next to the Blue Ridge Mountains. They live no more than five co-workers to a house with two or three volunteers who assist them in any way necessary and supervise when necessary. The volunteers always supervise medication just as a family member would do. They are like family member who are sharing their lives together with the co-workers. The co-workers have been taking most of the same medicines over their adult life. The volunteers diligently help with all daily living activities, including meals, cleaning, and workstations, which include bread making, gardening, weaving and woodwork. To add new requirement to the volunteers is in my estimation frankly unneeded and an unnecessary burden that may undermine the perfect harmony that is Innisfree Village, a life sharing community where volunteers and co-workers live and work together to make this wonderful village a home. It is a home, not an assisted living faculty. It is a place where those with mental handicaps can live and be productive in a normal, quiet, non-medical setting. I hope this explains my reasons that I hope reconsider the policy on more medication requirement or add a waiver to Innisfree Village. Please do not require an additional medication requirement, which will not help the co-workers and might undermine the conscientious volunteer system that has works so well in allowing these mentally challenged adult co-workers to live a productive life.