BEVERLY EAVES PERDUE
GOVERNOR
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER WEEK
2010
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, Community Health Centers are nonprofit, patient-governed health providers serving uninsured
and medically underserved people in the State of North Carolina; and
WHEREAS, North Carolina's Community Health Centers provide comprehensive primary medical care to
over 400,000 patients through more than 1.3 million patient visits, according to the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Primary Health Care; and
WHEREAS, fifty percent of the patients served by North Carolina's Community Health Centers are
uninsured, and seventy-two percent are classified as low-income, according to the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Primary Health Care; and
WHEREAS, Community Health Centers expand access to quality health care for all people and contain
health care costs by fostering prevention and integrating the delivery of primary medical, dental, and behavioral
health care with aggressive outreach, patient education, translation and other enabling services; and
WHEREAS, Community Health Centers have made great strides in the North Carolina health care system,
specifically by maintaining high standards of accountability, demonstrating cost-effectiveness and efficiency in the
delivery of care, and empowering communities to address unmet health needs, reduce health disparities, and reduce
preventable deaths, costly disabilities, and communicable diseases; and
WHEREAS, there is a continuing need to support implementation of Community Health Centers
throughout the State of North Carolina as part of North Carolina's enduring commitment to the provision of quality
primary health care;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BEVERLY EAVES PERDUE, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby
proclaim the week of August 8-14, 2010, as "COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER WEEK" in North Carolina
and urge citizens to recognize the important contributions of Community Health Centers in safeguarding health and
improving the quality of life for all people in the great State of North Carolina.
BEVERLY EAVES PERDUE
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North
Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this seventh day of July in the year of our Lord two thousand and ten, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fifth.