LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION commending the Charles B. Wang Community Health
Center upon the occasion of its Gala Dinner honoring Charles B. Wang on
May 19, 2009

WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative Body that the quality of
life in the communities of the great State of New York is greatly
enriched by the concerned and dedicated efforts of organizations and
institutions of distinction whose singular purpose is the care and
welfare of others; and
WHEREAS, Attendant to such concern and fully in accord with its long-
standing traditions, this Legislative Body is justly proud to recognize
and commend the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center upon the occa-
sion of its Gala Dinner honoring Charles B. Wang on May 19, 2009; and
WHEREAS, Founded in 1971, for nearly 40 years, the Charles B. Wang
Community Health Center has been a leader in providing high-quality,
affordable, culturally competent healthcare to the Asian American commu-
nity of New York City; and
WHEREAS, The majority of the Center's clients are low income, unin-
sured, or under insured Asian Americans with nowhere else to turn for
basic healthcare; and
WHEREAS, In addition to providing comprehensive primary care services,
the Center promotes the health of the community through innovative,
award winning health education and advocacy programs, and by recruiting
and training bilingual healthcare providers; and
WHEREAS, Since its inception in 1971 by a group of volunteers, the
Charles B. Wang Community Health Center has continuously expanded
services to meet growing community demands and has relocated several
times in order to continue to have adequate clinical space to provide
bilingual and bicultural healthcare services to the underserved Asian
American community; and
WHEREAS, In addition to the clinical services it provides, the Center
has also nurtured and helped to develop a generation of health, social
services, community service and other professionals through its unique
training and internship programs, many graduates of which now work in
Asian American community-based organizations throughout the country,
further spreading the impact of those volunteers who came together in
1971; and
WHEREAS, With its dedicated team of multilingual, multicultural commu-
nity providers at two centers in Manhattan, on Walker and Canal Streets,
and one in Flushing, the Center remains committed to providing high
quality, affordable, comprehensive, linguistically and culturally compe-
tent healthcare services to medically underserved populations and to
maintaining its role as a leader in the national Community Health Center
movement; and
WHEREAS, The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, an essential
community-based provider, is also an involved community member, promot-
ing community awareness about medical services and important health
topics and offering a number of community events, including its annual
Good Health Day, throughout the year in which all community members are
encouraged to participate and, in addition, publishing a newsletter and
many brochures in both English and Chinese; and
WHEREAS, As the Community Health Center honors its namesake, Charles
B. Wang, this Legislative Body is pleased to have the opportunity to
commend the Center, recognizing its nearly four decades of dedicated
service and extraordinary accomplishment; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
commend the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center upon the occasion of

its Gala Dinner honoring Charles B. Wang on May 19, 2009, to recognize
its long and sustained commitment to the health and welfare of those it
serves, and to applaud all those who have given of themselves to help it
fulfill its mission; and be it further
RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be tran-
smitted to the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center and to Charles B.
Wang.