LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION commending Community Health Care Association of
New York State (CHCANYS) for its enduring advocacy on behalf of communi-
ty health centers serving the medically underserved throughout the City
and State of New York

WHEREAS, It is incumbent upon the people of the State of New York to
commend and recognize those esteemed individuals and institutions within
the medical community for their extraordinary and sustained contrib-
utions to the progress of medicine and the improvement of life; and
WHEREAS, Attendant to such concern, and in full accord with its long-
standing traditions, this Legislative Body is justly proud to commend
Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS) for its
enduring advocacy on behalf of community health centers serving the
medically underserved throughout the City and State of New York; and
WHEREAS, CHCANYS will be sponsoring Advocacy Day on Monday, February
1, 2010, to be held at the Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York; and
WHEREAS, The mission of CHCANYS is to ensure that the medically under-
served living in New York State have access to quality, community-based
health care services; to accomplish this objective, CHCANYS serves as
the voice of community health centers as leading providers of primary
health care in New York State; and
WHEREAS, The year was 1971 and the community health care movement was
just beginning; in New York, a group of dedicated community health
activists created what was then innovation in health care advocacy--the
Community Health Care Association of New York State; and
WHEREAS, Established to give a voice to the state's network of commu-
nity health centers as leading providers of primary care, CHCANYS is now
seen as one of the premiere primary care associations in the country;
and
WHEREAS, CHCANYS not only works to increase access for those who would
otherwise go without care through advocacy and education, but also
creates major new programs and initiatives that showcase community
health centers as centers of excellence; and
WHEREAS, CHCANYS defines new directions in primary care delivery at
the more than 50 community health care centers with over 425 sites
throughout the State of New York; from clinical excellence to health
information technology, from emergency preparedness to eliminating
health care disparities, CHCANYS' goal is to provide community health
centers with the resources needed to provide high quality, community-
based primary care to anyone in need regardless of their ability to pay;
and
WHEREAS, It is the practice of this Legislative Body that when associ-
ations of such noble aims and accomplishments are brought to our atten-
tion, they should be celebrated and recognized by all the citizens of
this great Empire State; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
commend Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS)
for its enduring advocacy on behalf of community health centers serving
the medically underserved throughout the City and State of New York; and
be it further
RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be tran-
smitted to Community Health Care Association of New York State, 535 8th
Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, New York 10018.