2026 SESSION
ENROLLED
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 274
Commending New Horizons Healthcare.
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, March 10, 2026
Agreed to by the Senate, March 12, 2026
WHEREAS, for more than 25 years, New Horizons Healthcare, an independent, nonprofit health center in Roanoke, has greatly served the Roanoke Valley community by providing culturally appropriate, affordable, high-quality, and comprehensive health care to underserved individuals and families; and
WHEREAS, New Horizons Healthcare traces its origins to the early 1990s, when grassroots organizers sought to improve the health of the residents of northwest Roanoke by embracing the community health center model; and
WHEREAS, in 1999, the Kuumba Community Health and Wellness Center, which would later become New Horizons Healthcare, was incorporated, with the Reverend Dr. William L. Lee leading the original steering committee; that same year, the organization received its first federal grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services; and
WHEREAS, initially operating out of Loudoun Avenue Christian Church in Roanoke, where the Reverend Dr. William L. Lee had been pastor since 1977, the clinic later moved to a small modular building on Melrose Avenue, then to a clinic in the Valley View Medical Center in 2007, when it officially became New Horizons Healthcare; and
WHEREAS, in 2012, New Horizons Healthcare relocated to its current, state-of-the-art, 32,000-square-foot facility, where today it employs more than 80 team members; and