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BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON
AGENDA STATEMENT
Item No. A.i.
For Meeting of: August 2, 2016
ITEM TITLE: Community Health Center Week proclamation
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PJLEREAS, Yakima's three community hearth centers are a vital part of our community's
hearth care system; and
PJLEREAS, our community's hearth centers expand access to quality hearth care for ad
people, helping to contain costs by encouraging prevention and integrating the delivery of primary
care with outreach, patient education, translation, and other enabling services; and
P1LEREAS, during JVationafCommunity .Ifeafth Center Week we annually recognize the
importance of these hearth centers for their role in providing affordable and accessible care; and
ZVRIREAS, these community hearth centers also pray a significant role as major local
employers and an important source of economic growth; and
P1LEREAS, Yakima JVeighborhood.Ifealth Services, partnering with the other community
hearth centers and many agencies in the City of Yakima, has fed the effort to help uninsured
residents enroll in a hearth insurance plan that meets their needs and their budget; and
PWLEREAS, Yakima Neighborhood Wealth Services has grown from a staff of five caring
for about 20 patients to serving some 80,000 patients up and down the Yakima valley,
WOW, `ZJ[ERSEFO12E, I, Avina Gutierrez, Mayor of the City of Yakima and on behalf of
the Yakima City Council, do hereby proclaim the weekof August 7 -13, 2016 as
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in the city of Yakima and urge our community to recognize the multitude of ways in which
community hearth centers are transforming care as IJVJVOTATOR S' EV WT.AL2Mf CARE.
Dated this 2"d day of August, 2016
Avina Gutierrez, Mayor