Salud Para La Gente is an organization that provides primary health care services primarily to farm workers and their families in California's Central Coast counties.
Salud Para La Gente is an organization founded in 1978 as a clinic that offered primary health services to agricultural workers on the Central Coast of California in counties such as Ventura, Santa Barbara or Monterey.
Over the years, Salud, as it is also known in California, has been able to gain federal support as a Qualified Health Center (FQHC), which has allowed it to have five clinics and four school-based health centers. . Thanks to their work, they currently care for more than 28,000 patients each year.
This organization has been and continues to be very important for the Latino community in this region of California, since 90% of the patients treated are of Latino origin, many from rural areas of Mexico, and even a large part of them speak some language. original language.
In addition, the organization has also collaborated with organizations such as the Watsonville Law Center and other community organizations to assist and counsel low-income farm and industrial workers and their families. It is worth mentioning that many of the families are immigrants who do not speak English and the workers do not know their labor rights very well. In this sense, Salud seeks to guarantee access to health mainly to families in vulnerable conditions, mainly to children.
The Health service is focused on patients and they are convinced that everyone deserves quality medical care regardless of where they come from, so they see patients regardless of their place of residence, their immigration status, their socioeconomic situation, or if the patient uninsured.
Health services include: family health care, pediatric care, dental care, vision care, wellness and counseling, and specialty care.
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