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109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 812 

Expressing gratitude to Mrs. Deloris Jordan and the James Jordan Foundation for improving the lives of inner city youth in the United States 

and initiating a public-private collaborative to establish a women and 

children’s hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, and supporting the current Nairobi 

Women’s Hospital for its dedication and commitment to the residents 

of Nairobi. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 10, 2006 

Mr. MEEKS of New York (for himself and Mr. MCNULTY) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International 

Relations 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing gratitude to Mrs. Deloris Jordan and the James 

Jordan Foundation for improving the lives of inner city 

youth in the United States and initiating a public-private 

collaborative to establish a women and children’s hospital 

in Nairobi, Kenya, and supporting the current Nairobi 

Women’s Hospital for its dedication and commitment 

to the residents of Nairobi. 

Whereas Mrs. Deloris Jordan, in her strong belief in family 

through the international fame of her son, basketball 

great Michael Jordan, has created the James Jordan 

Foundation, named for her late husband, as a platform 


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to improve the lives of inner city youth in the United 

States; 

Whereas the James Jordan Foundation has direct involvement in benefiting the lives of children and encourages 

inner city youth to excel in their educational endeavors, 

including building stronger networks of support for youth 

by ensuring that parents are involved in the educational 

life of their children; 

Whereas the James Jordan Foundation, under the leadership 

of Mrs. Deloris Jordan, has recently initiated a publicprivate collaborative to establish a women and children’s 

hospital in Nairobi, Kenya; 

Whereas the United States Agency for International Development Kenya Integrated Strategic Plan for 2001–2005 

notes that Kenya is the most important country in East 

and Central Africa for United States foreign policy interests and that health problems in Kenya have regional 

consequences and that the spread of HIV/AIDS threatens 

to overwhelm Kenya’s health care systems and negate 

economic and social gains; 

Whereas the current Nairobi Women’s Hospital is a unique 

private institution specializing in women’s health care 

and is believed to be the first obstetric and gynecological 

center of its kind in East Africa; 

Whereas Kenya is an important country in East Africa and 

an important partner of the United States; 

Whereas the new women and children’s hospital in Nairobi 

will strengthen women’s public health in the East Africa 

region; 

Whereas outpatient services at the hospital will operate 24 

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patient services, a pre- and post-natal clinic, a gynecological clinic, a wellness baby clinic, a day care surgery 

clinic, a breast cancer clinic, surgical outpatient services, 

a wellness women clinic, a general pediatric clinic, and a 

medical outpatient clinic; 

Whereas the hospital will have full-time doctors to handle inpatient care; 

Whereas the maternity-related and nursery services at the 

hospital will consists of a labor ward, delivery room, postnatal ward, and high dependency unit; 

Whereas the hospital will offer maternity care packages designed to be best-suited for exepectant mothers, depending on the likelihood of normal delivery and affordability; 

Whereas the hospital will have surgical theatres, including a 

surgical ward, medical ward, and ante-natal ward; 

Whereas the hospital will provide services such as a gender 

violence recovery center, medical support, psychological 

support, and a counseling department as part of its social 

responsibility to the community; 

Whereas the hospital will assist women who have been subjected to abuse; 

Whereas the chief executive officer of the current Nairobi 

Women’s Hospital has been in discussions with various 

doctors for the development of the Nairobi Intro Vitro 

Fertilization Centre, the Nairobi Endoscopic Centre, and 

the Nairobi Renal Care Centre; and 

Whereas the new women and children’s hospital in Nairobi 

will be a full service facility to address the needs of 

women: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 


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1 (1) expresses gratitude to Mrs. Deloris Jordan 

2 and the James Jordan Foundation for improving the 

3 lives of inner city youth in the United States and 

4 initiating a public-private collaborative to establish a 

5 women and children’s hospital in Nairobi, Kenya; 

6 (2) supports the current Nairobi Women’s Hos7 pital, including its operators, staff, and personnel, 

8 for its dedication and commitment to the residents 

9 of Nairobi; and 

10 (3) encourages the development of the new 

11 Nairobi Women’s Hospital in order to assist in the 

12 social development of Nairobi’s health infrastructure 

13 and the economic development of the East Africa re14 gion. 

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