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A resolution appropriating a total of $1,000,000 from the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, acting by and through the Metropolitan Health Department, to NashvilleHealth and authorizing the Metropolitan Health Department to enter into a grant contract with NashvilleHealth for a Healthy Nashville Study.
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WHEREAS, Section 7-3-314 of the Tennessee Code Annotated states that metropolitan forms of government may provide financial assistance to nonprofit organizations in accordance with the guidelines of the Metropolitan Government; and,
WHEREAS, Section 5.04.070 of the Metropolitan Code of Laws provides that the Council may, by Resolution, appropriate funds for the financial aid of nonprofit organizations; and,
WHEREAS, BL2023-1867 has appropriated $1,000,000 in funding for a Healthy Nashville Study; and,
WHEREAS, this funding should be used for the provision of a collective impact multi-organization demonstration to engage health disparities by the establishment of a Wellness Opportunity Zone centered in North Nashville; and,
WHEREAS, a Wellness Opportunity Zone is a vulnerable geographic area within the Nashville and/or Middle Tennessee community that has been and continues to be impacted by longstanding social, economic, and structural inequities represented by at least two data-backed health disparities; and,
WHEREAS, a Wellness Opportunity Zone is further defined by an ability to be measurably impacted by collective action and Health Equity Coalition demonstration projects that target data informed and zone-specific health disparities; and,
WHEREAS, this funding will support a coordinated coalition of non-profits and community-based organizations to target uncontrolled hypertension in 37208 and its underlying determinants to measurably move the needle on health disparities within this zone and to put the city of Nashville on a path to becoming the healthiest city in the nation; and,
WHEREAS, NashvilleHealth, as the arc...
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