Florida Senate - 2009                            (NP)    SR 2112
       
       
       
       By Senator Bullard
       
       
       
       
       39-02190-09                                           20092112__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution recognizing August 9 through 15, 2009, as
    3         “Florida Health Center Week.”
    4  
    5         WHEREAS, federally qualified health centers are nonprofit,
    6  community-owned and operated health providers serving uninsured
    7  and medically underserved people in the State of Florida, and
    8         WHEREAS, federally qualified health centers expand access
    9  to affordable, high quality, and cost-effective health care to
   10  all people and contain health care costs by fostering prevention
   11  and integrating the delivery of primary care with aggressive
   12  outreach, patient education, translation, and other enabling
   13  services, and
   14         WHEREAS, federally qualified health centers have made great
   15  strides in improving Florida’s health care system by maintaining
   16  high standards of accountability, demonstrating cost
   17  effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of care, empowering
   18  communities to address unmet health needs, reducing health
   19  disparities among different segments of the population, and
   20  reducing preventable deaths, costly disabilities, and
   21  communicable diseases, and
   22         WHEREAS, federally qualified health centers are staffed by
   23  doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied health
   24  professionals who have chosen to serve in communities in need,
   25  helping to expand the reach of primary care and preventive
   26  health services, and
   27         WHEREAS, there is a continuing need to support federally
   28  qualified health centers throughout Florida as part of the
   29  state’s enduring commitment to the provision of quality primary
   30  health care, and
   31         WHEREAS, federally qualified health centers promote access
   32  to quality health care services for all Floridians, regardless
   33  of socio-economic status or race, to achieve the highest
   34  standard of health care for all, NOW, THEREFORE,
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   36  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
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   38         That the Florida Senate recognizes August 9 through 15,
   39  2009, as “Florida Health Center Week” in the State of Florida
   40  and expresses its appreciation for the valued contributions of
   41  federally qualified health centers in expanding access to health
   42  care and improving the health and future well-being of the
   43  people of this state.