HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTION 2001-53City of Kenai
Suggested by: Mayor Williams
RESOLUTION NO. 2001-53
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, IN SUPPORT OF FEDERAL
FUNDING FOR A NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER FOR THE CENTRAL KENAI
PENINSULA.
WHEREAS, Healthy Communities/Healthy People of the central peninsula is a network
of local citizens and organizations for the purpose of improving community and
ecological health and well-being; and,
WHEREAS, the Kenai Peninsula Borough has been designated a Medically Underserved
Area by Governor Tony Knowles (1997); and,
WHEREAS, affordable health care is necessary to ensure healthy people in the central
peninsula; and,
WHEREAS, neighborhood health centers ("community health centers") are funded
under Title III, Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act, and funding is available for
the establishment of new centers; and,
WHEREAS, unlike a hospital or a public health center licensed through the state,
neighborhood health centers seek to offer primary health care on a sliding-scale basis,
to encourage local citizens to get preventive on-going health care; and,
WHEREAS, neighborhood health centers work in conjunction with local providers and
hospitals to help reduce unnecessary use of the hospital emergency room and offer
referrals to local hospitals and other private health care providers for clients who need
other appropriate care; and,
WHEREAS, the Healthy Communities/Healthy People, working with Bridges
Community Resources Network, Inc. as a partner, has an excellent chance of qualifying
for start-up and continuing operation funding due to the critical need in the area; and,
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Kenai approves of the idea of neighborhood health
centers and encourages the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to
support funding a neighborhood health center for the central Kenai Peninsula under
Title III, Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI,
ALASKA, that the City of Kenai supports funding for a neighborhood health center in
the central Kenai Peninsula.
PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, this fifth day of July,
, MAYOR
ATTEST:
Carol L. Freas,'~C~ty
clerk