WHEREAS, Community health centers provide primary care
services through their dedicated health professional employees
and a team-based approach to effective patient-centered primary
care; and
WHEREAS, Community health centers are nonprofit organizations
governed by their community-based board of directors to be
reflective of the community and patients they serve; and
WHEREAS, Community health centers provide primary care to
over 700,000 patients Statewide; and
WHEREAS, Community health centers have expanded their
services to over 250 sites serving patients in 49 rural and
urban counties; and
WHEREAS, Community health centers have demonstrated the
ability to serve more individuals challenged by social
determinants of health, such as poverty, and with complex
medical conditions, in a highly effective and cost-efficient
manner; and
WHEREAS, Community health centers are highly transparent by
providing clinical outcome measures to the public over multiple
years; and
WHEREAS, Community health centers have led health care
industry standards by a majority of centers attaining patient-
centered medical home recognition and implementing electronic
health records to better serve their patients; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate honor community health centers for
50 years of providing quality primary care to the residents of
this Commonwealth; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the
Pennsylvania Association of Community Health Centers, 1035 Mumma
Road, Suite 1, Wormleysburg, PA 17043.
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