IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 639 
Expressing support for the designation of the week beginning August 3, 
2025, as ‘‘National Health Center Week’’, and encouraging all Americans 
to take part in the week by visiting their local health center and cele-
brating the important partnership between America’s community health 
centers and the communities they serve. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 5, 2025 
Mr. VALADAO (for himself, Mr. BALDERSON, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, and Mr. 
AUCHINCLOSS) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for the designation of the week beginning 
August 3, 2025, as ‘‘National Health Center Week’’, 
and encouraging all Americans to take part in the week 
by visiting their local health center and celebrating the 
important partnership between America’s community 
health centers and the communities they serve. 
Whereas, for nearly 60 years, community health centers have 
provided high-quality, affordable, comprehensive primary 
and preventive health care in the Nation’s medically un-
derserved communities, delivering value to, and having a 
significant impact on, America’s health care system; 
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Whereas, as the Nation’s largest primary care network, com-
munity health centers are the health care home for over 
32,500,000 Americans in over 16,000 communities across 
the Nation, and more than 1 in every 10 people in the 
United States get their care at a community health cen-
ter; 
Whereas community health centers are a critical element of 
the Nation’s health system, serving rural, suburban, is-
land, frontier, and urban populations, often providing the 
only accessible and dependable source of primary care in 
their communities, and nationwide, community health 
centers serve 1 in every 5 residents of rural areas; 
Whereas community health centers are responding to the 
chronic disease epidemic by expanding access to primary 
care, which keeps Americans healthy and out of expensive 
health care settings like hospital emergency rooms; 
Whereas community health centers develop new approaches 
to integrating a wide range of services beyond primary 
care, including oral health, vision, behavioral health, nu-
trition, and pharmacy services, to provide comprehensive 
care, allowing each patient to thrive, and health centers 
have more than doubled their behavioral health workforce 
in the last decade to meet Americans’ growing need for 
behavioral health services; 
Whereas community health centers are governed by patient- 
majority boards, ensuring patients are engaged in their 
health care decisions; 
Whereas community health centers are locally owned and op-
erated small businesses that serve as critical economic en-
gines, helping to power local economies by generating 
$118,000,000,000 in economic activity; 
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Whereas community health centers nationally support more 
than 650,000 direct and indirect jobs, including physi-
cians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, licensed 
family therapists, and certified nurse-midwives who work 
as part of multidisciplinary clinical teams designed to 
treat the whole patient; 
Whereas the community health center model continues to 
prove an effective means of overcoming barriers to health 
care access, including geography, income, and insurance 
status, improving health outcomes and reducing health 
care system costs; 
Whereas community health centers provided more than 
3,600,000 cancer screenings in 2023 and helped 65 per-
cent of patients control their hypertension and 71 percent 
of their patients control their diabetes; 
Whereas community health centers are on the front lines of 
emerging health care crises, providing access to care for 
the Nation’s veterans, addressing the opioid epidemic, 
and responding to public health threats in the wake of 
natural disasters, and community health centers operate 
over 1,000 mobile units, providing accessible health serv-
ices in hundreds of rural and urban communities; 
Whereas National Health Center Week offers the opportunity 
to celebrate America’s nearly 1,500 community health 
center organizations with over 16,000 service delivery 
sites, including more than 4,100 school-based sites, and 
the House of Representatives honors their dedicated 
staff, board members, patients, and all those responsible 
for their continued success and growth since the first 
health centers opened their doors nearly 60 years ago; 
and 
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