RESOLUTION NO. 920534

Directing the City Manager to find appropriate funds for allocation to Northland Health Care Access, in the amount of $50,000.00, to establish a primary health care facility for the elderly, poor and indigent residents of Kansas City North, should NHCA establish such a facility within the corporate limits of Kansas City.

WHEREAS, almost twenty percent of the population of Kansas City, Missouri resides in Clay and Platte Counties; and

WHEREAS, in August 1990, a Missouri not for profit agency was incorporated as Northland Health Care Access to develop a response to the growing critical need for a system of primary health care for families in Clay and Platte Counties without medical insurance; and

WHEREAS, a needs survey performed in 1990 recorded 41.9% of respondents to be without health insurance in Clay and Platte Counties, and an estimated 22% of all individuals in those counties are without health insurance; and

WHEREAS, a sliding-scale clinic is non-existent in Kansas City North even though the citizens of Kansas City passed an increase in the tax levy for hospital and public health purposes on February 7, 1989; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

That the Mayor and Council hereby desire that this gap in health services to the citizens of Kansas City be closed, and further direct the City Manager to find appropriate funds for allocation to Northland Health Care Access, in the amount of $50,000.00, to establish a primary health care facility for the elderly, poor and indigent residents of Kansas City North, should NHCA establish such a facility within the corporate limits of Kansas City.

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