HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 06052007 - 2007-282 IN THE MATTER OF HONORING RESOLUTION NO. 2007/282
JOHN MUIR/MT. DIABLO COMMUNITY
HEALTH FUND ON THEIR 10TH ANNIVERSARY
WHEREAS, John Muir/Mt. Diablo Community Health Fund granted $11 million from 1997-2006 to
improve the health of overlooked, uninsured, and underserved people in central and east Contra
Costa County; and
WHEREAS, John Muir/Mt. Diablo Community Health Fund contributed $4 million dollars to over
sixty programs designed toyxespodd to unmedtate and,targeted health needs, from dental and
prenatal services to pumary,care, pharmacy`support,and heath education for self-care of chronic
disease; and
WHEREAS,John Muir/ Mt. Diablo Community Health,Fund,also'c-ontribu'ted$T pillion dollars to five
large initiatives aimed&.at -fostering..,sustainable, systemic ,change, smcludirig,strengthening the
cultural p bficien `y of crisis support services for an increasingly diverse population, exposing the
often hidden trental` health needs of'developmentally disabled ladzilts, supporting efforts to
stabihze families and get at-risk youth batik on track, ensuriiig=undei:seraed Latmas get timely
breast cancer`detection and treatment'and meeting The mental and fihysical,healthfneeds of the
county's agingpopulation; and
WHEREAS,"John, Muir/Mf Diablo Community Health Fundi-h-as cora p,,eted its first`,decade of
granhnakin and
WHEREAS, John-Muir Health has distinguished itself;by giving the' Community Health Fund its
independence,' granttnikingimtssion .of improving ahe=health of',:uiunsured anti Undeserved
popul ttions, and by.;contiibutuig sigiuficant'annual resources-to fund our work, and11 1 N
WHEREAS, 'in ten years, the„John Muir/Mt: Diablo Coii mumty•Health•Fund'hash established itself
among local foundations as the leading funder for health progiams and'imtiatrves ifi central and
eastern Coiifra.Costa County.; and
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WHEREAS, many:''of those orgy izattons and health'initiatives funded over th6''la"stX ten years have
touched the lives and improved the health of underserved,and uninsured families, children and
seniors in Contra Costa County;and
NOW, THEREFORE, 'BE IT:RESOLVED THAT the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa
County honors John-Muir/Mt Di "Ko-Community...,.Health.Fund:on their 10" Anniversary for
their hard work and dedication t in iduals and ," nizationsin Contra Costa County.
MANY N. PIEPHO
Chair
District III Supervisorme
JOHN GIOIA l 4 GAYLE)IUILKEMA
District I Supervisor District II Supe-rvisor
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,SUSAN A. BONILLA FEDERAL D. GLOVER
District IV Supervisor 5 D L O� District V Supervisor
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken
Q v and entered on the minutes of the Hoard of Supervisors on the date
shown:
ATTESTED: ILIN L+5,2007
87`4 couK� JOI"IN CULLEN, Clerk of the Hoard of Supenisors and County
Administrators
By ` ( l "H'�/`�'t'/t ,Deputy
Introduced b Superoisor Piepbo, District III