National Health Center Week (August 4 - 10, 2024)Copyrighted
August 5, 2024
City of Dubuque
City Council Meeting
Proclamation(s) # 01.
ITEM TITLE: National Health Center Week (August 4 - 10, 2024)
SUMMARY: On behalf of Crescent Community Health Center.
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WHEREAS, for more than 50 years, Community Health Centers have provided high -quality,
affordable, comprehensive primary and preventive health care in our nation's
underserved communities, delivering value to, and having a significant impact on
America's health care system; and
WHEREAS, as the country's largest primary care network, Community Health Centers are the health
care home for 31.5 million Americans in over 15,000 communities across the nation. One
in every eleven people in the United States gets their care in a Community Health Center;
and
WHEREAS, Community Health Centers are locally owned and operated small businesses that serve
as critical economic engines, helping to power local economies by generating $85 billion
in economic activity and more than $37 billion in labor income in some of the country's
most economically distressed communities; and
WHEREAS, National Health Center Week offers the opportunity to celebrate America's more than
1,400 Community Health Center organizations with over 15,000 service delivery sites,
including over 3,600 schools. We honor their dedicated staff, board members, patients,
and all those responsible for their continued success and growth since the first health
centers opened their doors more than 50 years ago.
NOW THEREFORE, I, BRAD M. CAVANAGH, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA, ON
BEHALF OF THE CITY COUNCIL, STAFF, AND RESIDENTS OF DUBUQUE, DO HEREBY
PROCLAIM THE 4T" THROUGH 10TH OF AUGUST 2024 AS
"National Health Center Week"
IN THE CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA AND ENCOURAGE ALL RESIDENTS TO TAKE PART IN THIS
WEEK BY VISITING THEIR LOCAL HEALTH CENTER AND CELEBRATING THE IMPORTANT
PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AMERICA'S COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS AND THE
COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE.
IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the Great Seal of the City of Dubuque to
be affixed this 5th day of August 2024.
Brad M. Cavanagh, Mayor
Attest:
Adrienne N. Breitfelder, CMC, City Clerk
2024: Submitted by Eva Schmid and accepted by Interim CEO Chad Woelbers.