Providence Community Health Centers to mark National Doctors’ Day

PROVIDENCE – The Providence Community Health Centers will honor the physicians who work at the 10 PCHC clinics throughout the city with red carnations – the traditional symbol representing National Doctors’ Day – and a lunch of various international ethnic offerings.

“We’d like to thank our physicians who go above and beyond to meet the needs of our 50,000+ patients here in Providence,” Merrill Thomas, PCHC president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. “[Our] family physicians, pediatricians, dentists and other providers focus on giving patients quality care. Celebrating National Doctors’ Day is one way we can recognize them for what they do naturally every day.”

On March 30, 1958, a resolution commemorating Doctors’ Day was adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives, but it wasn’t until 1990 that applicable legislation was introduced and passed by both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. On Oct. 30, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed Public Law 101-473, designating March 30 as National Doctors’ Day, according to a PCHC release.

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