Learn about each clinical partners’ mission, services, and more!

Highland Hospital

Alameda Health System (AHS) is a safety net health system that provides patient- and family-centered care for residents of Alameda County. AHS’s mission is caring, healing, teaching, and serving all. AHS has delivered quality and affordable medical care to the low-income persons of color patients for over 150 years. 84% of the patients are covered on government insurance while the rest are primarily uninsured. AHS believes in increasing access to quality care, addressing unmet social needs, and building a community-centered workforce. AHS’s focus on DEI supports the delivery of quality care and fosters a sense of belonging among patients and providers. AHS is committed to an all-Black interdisciplinary clinical team led by midwives and midwifery-led Centering Pregnancy group care. This facilitates peer-to-peer learning and community connection and reduces racism-based disparities in outcomes for Black birthing people and their infants.

Website: https://www.alamedahealthsystem.org/

La Clínica

La Clinica began in 1971 in the marginalized community of East Oakland, serving Spanish-speaking and other immigrant populations regardless of their ability to pay. Through the efforts of community members and students from the University of California-Berkeley, a small clinic was started that served a few hundred patients. Since then, La Clinica has grown exponentially into a health organization spanning three counties with 35 service sites. In addition to a number of primary care clinical sites (one of which hosts APP fellows), services are also offered at a number of school-based health centers. Various programs at clinical sites are in place to support patients holistically, such as integrated behavioral health, health education classes, nutrition and health coaching, dental services, radiology, Women, Infants and Children (WIC) services, and others. Many of the SON FNP faculty are providers at La Clinica.

Website: https://laclinica.org/

LifeLong Medical Care

Since its inception in 1976, LifeLong Medical Care has grown into an organization with 14 primary care clinics, four dental clinics, a clinic devoted to mental health services, a clinic devoted to the health care needs of the LGBTQ communities of the East Bay, four urgent care centers, a supportive housing program, and a number of mobile health clinics to serve the unhoused. These locations span three counties within the San Francisco Bay Area. Within its primary care health centers, LMC provides a number of services; in addition to delivering care for common chronic and acute conditions, health centers provide prenatal, Medication-Assisted Treatment, Food as Medicine, laboratory and pharmacy services. Patient access to services and quality care are cornerstone values that drive not just LifeLong's health services, but its public policy work too.

Website: https://lifelongmedical.org/

Family Health Center

The Family Health Center (FHC) at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG) Hospital provides the full scope of primary care services for children, adolescents, adults, the elderly, and homebound patients with over 55,000 patient visits per year. Services include continuity and urgent care for all ages, prenatal care and perinatal case management, family planning, HIV family clinic services, well-child care, minor office procedures, mental health services, social services, substance use treatment, nutrition consultation, diabetes education and case management, nurse care management and more. Care is delivered within a primary care continuity provider model that optimizes use of health care resources. As the largest primary care clinic within the San Francisco Health Network (SFHN), FHC patients reflect the rich ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of San Francisco. Dr. Gatewood is a faculty provider at FHC.

The UCSF Family & Community Medicine (FCM) Residency Program at San Francisco General Hospital is an integral part of the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine and the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s (DPH) primary care network. Founded in 1972, our residency program grew up alongside the community clinic system in San Francisco. Residents have always primarily provided care in DPH clinics serving primarily uninsured and publicly insured patients. Over the years, our faculty and graduates have been instrumental in building the DPH's San Francisco Health Network. In partnership with patients, families, and the local community, we continually seek to facilitate greater health and vitality in our city and beyond. ZSFG and FHC serve as the primary training site for 45 FCM residents each year.

Website: https://zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org/location/family-health-center/

5M Clinic

Obstetrics, Midwifery, and Gynecology Clinic (5M) at Zuckerberg San Francisco General is a full-service, multidisciplinary ambulatory Ob/Gyn practice, providing a broad range of clinical services including gynecology, prenatal, and group prenatal program (Centering). CNMs have been providing maternal health care at ZSFG since 1975. The group prenatal program is staffed by CNM, and includes a Spanish group to meet the needs of the diverse patient population. Patients receive nutritional counseling, prenatal diagnosis, ultrasonography, social work services, antenatal testing, childbirth education, and mental health services. Treatments for diabetes, hypertension, autoimmune disease, cardiac and pulmonary disorders are provided by linguistically and culturally appropriate providers. Professor Dau and many other CNMs at 5M are faculty at UCSF SON (paid and/or volunteer clinical professor).

Website: https://obgyn.ucsf.edu/san-francisco-general-hospital/obstetrics-midwifery-and-gynecology-clinic-5m