Overview
- Updated On:
- June 19, 2023
Description
For 50 years, Family Health Centers of San Diego’s (FHCSD) mission has been to provide caring, affordable, high-quality health care and supportive services to everyone, with a special commitment to uninsured, low-income and medically underserved persons.
FHCSD is one of the nation’s ten largest FQHCs. We operate 73 sites across San Diego County, including 23 primary care clinics, 20 behavioral health facilities, eight dental clinics, four vision clinics, three mobile medical units, two mobile counseling centers, two physical rehabilitation clinics, a pharmacy and an outpatient substance use treatment program to support services throughout San Diego County.
Our staff provides care to over 227,000 patients each year, of whom 91% are low-income and 29% are uninsured. Also, as a Title X-funded provider of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care, FHCSD provides Title X sexual and reproductive health care services to over 42,000 unique patients each year.
The breadth of our clinic locations, services and programs has grown over the last five decades, making us the largest community clinic provider of health care to the uninsured in the county and one of the top 10 largest community clinic organizations in the nation. We are also the largest health care safety-net provider, largest school-based health care provider and largest comprehensive HIV/AIDS services provider in the San Diego region.
Mission
Family Health Centers of San Diego is dedicated to providing caring, affordable, high-quality health care and supportive services to everyone,
with a special commitment to uninsured, low-income and medically underserved persons.
Vision
Exceptional in Every Way
Values
Dedication to serving others.
Striving for performance excellence.
Embracing diversity.
Honesty and integrity.
Fiscal responsibility.
We exemplify these values through our Standards of Conduct.
Patient-Centered Medical Home
Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD) is an accredited Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) by the Joint Commission and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), organizations dedicated to enhancing health care quality and safety.
At a PCMH, patients receive quality care through a direct and long-term relationship with their chosen provider and health care team. This team is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values, ensuring all clinical decisions are guided by these principles. Patients, and their families, also receive support to become engaged in healthy behaviors.
Everyone at FHCSD — from clinicians to receptionists — plays a role in creating a PCMH that supports whole-person care and improves access, self-care and care coordination within and outside FHCSD.
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