Resolution:

No. 15-01

Supporting San Francisco's Community Health Centers and Declaring August 19-25, 2001 Community Health Centers Week

WHEREAS, community health centers are a critical component of San Francisco's health care safety net and provide essential health services to San Franciscans; and,

WHEREAS, the partnership between the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium and the Department of Public Health ensures that thousands of San Franciscans have access to culturally competent, quality primary care services; and,

WHEREAS, the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium's non-profit, neighborhood-based Partner Community Health Centers have been providing culturally and linguistically appropriate primary and preventive health care services to San Francisco's diverse communities for over 30 years; and,

WHEREAS, the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium's 11 Partner Community Health Center sites provide 240,000 ambulatory care visits to 60,000 indigent, uninsured and underinsured San Franciscans per year

• Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic
• Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services
• Native American Health Center
• North East Medical Services
• North East Medical Services - Leland Avenue
• North of Market Senior Services
• Mission Neighborhood Health Center
• Mission Neighborhood Health Center - Excelsior Clinic
• Saint Anthony Free Medical Clinic
• San Francisco Free Clinic
• South of Market Health Center

WHEREAS, Congress has declared August 19-25, 2001 to be National Community Health Centers Week to honor the services community health centers provide nationwide; and,

WHEREAS, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has declared this week in August of each year to be Community Health Centers Week in San Francisco; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the Health Commission of the City and County of San Francisco recognizes the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium's Partner Community Health Centers and other non-profit Community Clinics for their decades of dedicated service to improving the health and well-being of San Franciscans; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Health Commission of the City and County of San Francisco declares August 19-25, 2001 "Community Health Centers Week" in San Francisco.

I hereby certify that the Health Commission at its meeting of August 21, 2001 adopted the foregoing resolution.

Michele M. Olson, Executive Secretary to the Health Commission