First Lady Visits Unity Health Care Center in DC
Earlier this week First Lady Michelle Obama visited the Unity Health Care Center in Washington D.C. Mrs.Obama stressed the importance of community health care centers in the fight against preventable diseases and the need for children to be educated about healthy living. Ultimately, Mrs. O announced the release of 0 million in Recovery Act grants for community health care centers across the country. “Every single health center that applied for a grant will receive at least 0,000,” stated the First Lady.
Below are some excerpts from the remarks made by the First Lady to employees of the clinic, patients, and members of the community. To read the entire transcript visit WhiteHouse.gov.
“As the President and Congress begin to tackle health care reform, the flag is being raised on the costly effects of preventable diseases that burden our health care system. And community health centers like Upper Cardozo, Unity Health Care are a vital component for this discussion…
Access to primary care, preventative care, wellness and nutrition counseling help prevent chronic illnesses like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and high-blood pressure that consume 85 percent of the health care spending in our country.
But it’s more than just an economic issue. It’s about the quality of life for all of our citizens, particularly our kids…
Nearly a third of the children in this country today are overweight or obese and a third will suffer from diabetes at some point in their lifetime.
When we look at the Hispanic and African American communities, those numbers climb even higher so that nearly half of the children in those communities will suffer this same fate. Half of those kids…
I am pleased to announce today the release of 0 million in Recovery Act grants to upgrade and expand community health centers across the country. (Applause.) This money will help community health centers reach more people in need and make all of our communities healthier places to live and to work. This is a new investment on top of the hundreds of millions of dollars that have already enabled health centers to expand and improve their services this year. So this is more.
For centers around the country, these Recovery Act grants will mean new diagnostic equipment, renovation of facilities that need repair, expanding computer centers to help manage electronic medical records, adding on new staff, expanding programs that work. And over the next two years, Recovery Act dollars for community health centers will expand desperately-needed services to more than 2.8 million people…
And there’s another part of this equation beyond health. When Unity builds those 20 new exam rooms, they’ll be creating jobs and putting people to work in construction and renovation. When a health center in rural Illinois purchases a new computer center, it’s going to keep a programmer in the Silicon Valley on the job. So as we provide quality health care to more people, there will be this multiplier effect that will also provide more jobs to more workers.
Just think about the impact of all these Recovery Act grants all over the entire country. Every single health center that applied for a grant will receive at the very least 0,000…”
Posted by Aminah Hanan
Earlier this week First Lady Michelle Obama visited the Unity Health Care Center in Washington D.C. Mrs.Obama stressed the importance of community health care centers in the fight against preventable diseases and the need for children to be educated about healthy living. Ultimately, Mrs. O announced the release of 0 million in Recovery Act grants for community health care centers across the country. “Every single health center that applied for a grant will receive at least 0,000,” stated the First Lady.
Below are some excerpts from the remarks made by the First Lady to employees of the clinic, patients, and members of the community. To read the entire transcript visit WhiteHouse.gov.
“As the President and Congress begin to tackle health care reform, the flag is being raised on the costly effects of preventable diseases that burden our health care system. And community health centers like Upper Cardozo, Unity Health Care are a vital component for this discussion…
Access to primary care, preventative care, wellness and nutrition counseling help prevent chronic illnesses like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and high-blood pressure that consume 85 percent of the health care spending in our country.
But it’s more than just an economic issue. It’s about the quality of life for all of our citizens, particularly our kids…
Nearly a third of the children in this country today are overweight or obese and a third will suffer from diabetes at some point in their lifetime.
When we look at the Hispanic and African American communities, those numbers climb even higher so that nearly half of the children in those communities will suffer this same fate. Half of those kids…
I am pleased to announce today the release of 0 million in Recovery Act grants to upgrade and expand community health centers across the country. (Applause.) This money will help community health centers reach more people in need and make all of our communities healthier places to live and to work. This is a new investment on top of the hundreds of millions of dollars that have already enabled health centers to expand and improve their services this year. So this is more.
For centers around the country, these Recovery Act grants will mean new diagnostic equipment, renovation of facilities that need repair, expanding computer centers to help manage electronic medical records, adding on new staff, expanding programs that work. And over the next two years, Recovery Act dollars for community health centers will expand desperately-needed services to more than 2.8 million people…
And there’s another part of this equation beyond health. When Unity builds those 20 new exam rooms, they’ll be creating jobs and putting people to work in construction and renovation. When a health center in rural Illinois purchases a new computer center, it’s going to keep a programmer in the Silicon Valley on the job. So as we provide quality health care to more people, there will be this multiplier effect that will also provide more jobs to more workers.
Just think about the impact of all these Recovery Act grants all over the entire country. Every single health center that applied for a grant will receive at the very least 0,000…”
Posted by Aminah Hanan