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Celebrating St. Paul Family Medical Center’s 25+ Years of Service and Milestones in the East Side Saint Paul Community & Declaring Saturday, January 10, 2026 as Dr. Phua Xiong Day in the City of Saint Paul.
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WHEREAS, Dr. Phua Xiong is one of the first Hmong women physicians in the United States and a trailblazer in culturally responsive care and community commitment. She earned her medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis in 1996 and completed her residency at the University of Minnesota’s St. Joseph’s program in 1999, and
WHEREAS, Dr. Phua Xiong served at Open Cities Medical Center in 1999 and is one of the first Hmong American female physicians who opened her solo practice, St. Paul Family Medical Center, in St. Paul in 2002 to realize her vision of serving all families, and under her leadership, the clinic has become a trusted medical home for compassionate, personalized care for many people, and
WHEREAS, In 2005, St. Paul Family Medical Center moved to the East Side of Saint Paul and served 20 years as a dedicated, community-rooted health provider and has overall served 25+ years of service to the Hmong community and communities of color in the Twin Cities, and
WHEREAS, St. Paul Family Medical Center has since flourished, offering a full range of family practice service, and Dr. Phua Xiong’s dedicated care includes having personally delivered over 500 babies in the clinic’s first 18 years and seeing three generations of patients since the clinic’s inception,
WHEREAS, Dr. Phua Xiong has had a deep commitment to promoting, elevating, and helping advance the status of Hmong women and girls culturally, socially, economically, politically, mentally, and spiritually, and advocates for Hmong women to pursue roles that make them more than a wife, mother, daughter, and daughter-in-law, encouraging them to become professionals, business leaders, politicians, and agents of change. She desires to see Hmong people live healthy lives, advance in the world, and be recognized and respected by others, and
WHEREAS, Dr. Phua Xiong significantly invests in the training and development of the next generation of clinicians and has committed over 25 years of clinical service and mentorship to medical assistants, pre-medical students, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants,
BE IT RESOLVED, the Saint Paul City Council celebrates St. Paul Family Medical Center’s 25+ years of service and milestones in the East Side Saint Paul community, and
BE IF FURTHER RESOLVED, the Saint Paul City Council hereby declares Saturday, January 10, 2026 as Dr. Phua Xiong Day in the City of Saint Paul.