House Bill hb9077

    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                HR 9077

        By Representatives Murman, Bilirakis, Littlefield, Green,
    Farkas, Sobel, Bucher, Joyner, Romeo, Haridopolos, Johnson,
    Kyle, Gardiner, Kallinger, Allen, Attkisson, Maygarden,
    Harrell, Wilson, Henriquez, Lerner, Cusack, Flanagan, Mack,
    Bullard, Gibson, Needelman and Gannon


  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution designating August 19-25, 2001,

  3         "Community Health Center Week."

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  5         WHEREAS, there are a significant number of citizens in

  6  Florida who are currently medically underserved for a number

  7  of reasons, the most prominent of which include geographical

  8  isolation, financial and language barriers, and an

  9  insufficient number of health care providers, and

10         WHEREAS, community health centers are private,

11  nonprofit corporations that provide high-quality comprehensive

12  primary health care to medically underserved people in

13  Florida, and

14         WHEREAS, it is critical that community health centers

15  remain viable providers of primary health care throughout

16  Florida by providing a host of support services, including

17  transportation, translation, nutrition counseling, and health

18  education programs, and

19         WHEREAS, community health centers empower communities

20  to develop programs to meet their specific needs, strengthen

21  communities to enhance opportunities for children and

22  families, and provide health care services in accessible

23  low-cost environments, and

24         WHEREAS, community health centers improve access to

25  quality health care in areas that are unserved or underserved

26  and promote individual health awareness in their communities

27  by offering primary preventive health care to help reduce

28  preventable deaths, costly disabilities, and communicable

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                HR 9077

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  1         WHEREAS, community health centers will continue to

  2  provide a medical home to thousands of uninsured Floridians,

  3  and

  4         WHEREAS, community health centers promote 100 percent

  5  access and zero health disparities to help achieve accessible,

  6  affordable primary health care for everyone, NOW, THEREFORE,

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  8  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

  9  Florida:

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11         That the Florida House of Representatives hereby

12  proclaims the week of August 19-25, 2001, as "Community Health

13  Center Week," and urges citizens to recognize the important

14  contributions of Florida's community health centers to the

15  improvement of the quality of life for more than 430,000

16  citizens of the state.

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