Clinica Sierra Vista, a non-profit corporation, was created to provide health care to poor, migrant farmworkers who harvest the lush agricultural fields in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
Today, Clinica Sierra Vista serves a geographically dispersed, low-moderate-fixed income, ethnically diverse, frontier-rural-urban-migrant-homeless patient population. It has grown to be one of the largest comprehensive migrant/community health center systems in the nation.
Clinica Sierra Vista is a multi-dimensional, multi-disciplinary comprehensive health care organization, serving the primary medical, dental and behavioral health needs of a huge patient population in Kern, Fresno and Inyo counties.We plan to continue to work to build a system of care that will assure the survival of a locally-governed and controlled health care agency.
Beyond our primary care services, our health education, health promotion and prevention programs have grown into large and important delivery systems, coordinating our services and activities with our primary care delivery sites.
With the continued support of the Federal, State, and local governments, we have been able to reach out to thousands of new patients, offering comprehensive programs tailored to our communities needs, providing them with medical, dental and behavioral health services that prior to Clinica Sierra Vista's outreach, our patients were not receiving this care.
We have initiated programs to address high-risk youth in our community and have worked exhaustively with a multitude of communities in the formation of Neighborhood Partnerships to better address the need for collaborative delivery systems dealing with children and families. We operate two mobile units providing medical and dental services to the very isolated homeless and to school and Neighborhood Partnership programs throughout our county.
We plan to continue to work to build a system of care that will assure the survival of a locally-governed and controlled health care agency. Through the formation of consortia and other new activities and adventures with our health care peers, we intend to work to continue to strengthen our local health care system. Our success far exceeds the original projections and expectations of the funding agencies and founders who were involved in the initial planned phase for a small, rural health program in 1970-71. Success has largely been due to the dedication of this organization's Board and staff who have demonstrated knowledge about the concept of rural health care delivery, community relationships and an intimate, personal understanding of patient needs. It is truly a program of local, state and federal resources meeting the needs of our very at-risk patient populations.
Visit our website for more information about our services and locations at www.clinicasierravista.org.
