Santa Cruz Neighborhood Overall health (SCCH) has announced the opening of a new overall health clinic in Ben Lomond. The two-bed clinic, slated to open up on Jan. 24, will provide a bevy of wellbeing care expert services on a sliding scale, like Covid tests and vaccines. 

When this is the group’s 1st foray into the San Lorenzo Valley, they are no strangers to offering high-quality thorough health care at a reduced expense. 

“We attempt every working day to make improvements to the well being of our individuals and the community,” claimed Leslie Conner, CEO of SCCH. “We are very pleased and psyched to deliver well being treatment services to additional families and individuals in the San Lorenzo Valley.”

Dena Loijos, main method and affect officer with SCCH, mentioned she is keen to start out providing health and fitness care help to the underserved communities of the San Lorenzo Valley. 

“Santa Cruz Mountain Wellbeing Center will provide a variety of main treatment expert services to begin with, and we anticipate that we will promptly expand products and services to offer a entire most important care follow to the neighborhood,” Loijos mentioned.

The facility will be found in the Wee Kirk Church Constructing in downtown Ben Lomond at 9500 Central Ave., just one particular block from Highway 9. The developing, which boasts an historic designation, was formerly the home of a clinical practitioner, generating the transfer turnkey for SCCH.

The transfer will occur as good news for these looking for well being treatment solutions in the Valley, as earlier this 12 months Sutter Well being and the Palo Alto Health care Foundation declared they would start off to move away from supplying urgent treatment at its Scotts valley site.

“We want to provide our clients where they are,” Conner claimed, noting that lots of recent SCCH individuals reside in the San Lorenzo Valley. “SLV is a remote area when compared to considerably of Santa Cruz and it has very long been underserved. Our purpose is to boost accessibility to large-high-quality, very affordable wellness care for the mountain community.”

Santa Cruz Mountain Wellness Center will originally run 30 hours a week, serving somewhere around 2,000 individuals who live in the San Lorenzo Valley place. SCCH will be staffing the clinic with a few expert medical professionals and a workforce of aid staff. Shifting…