Santa Cruz County leaders and health care partners broke ground on a new housing and wellness site. Today we put a shovel in the ground and say that Santa Cruz County goes forward together, said Manu Koenig, Santa Cruz County Supervisor. Construction is now started in Santa Cruz s Live Oak community. Dientes Community Dental, Mid Pen Housing, Santa Cruz Community Health, along with numerous donors such as Dominican Hospital, Sutter Health, Kaiser Permanente, broke ground on a health care and affordable housing campus. It s in a community where nearly 15% of Live Oak Elementary School students are homeless, 15,000 people don t have a doctor and 78% of adults on Medi-Cal are without a dentist. The new campus addresses those gaps. This will positively impact the community. And I m sure there will be no more social injustice. Since we all have the right to decent care and easier access, said Diana Valadez, Santa Cruz County Health Clinic patient and mother. We are taking all t
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- To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 among Latinos, who have been disproportionally affected by the virus, Kaiser Permanente is supporting community clinics like Salud Para La Gente as they work to increase access to health care to vulnerable residents.
Salud Para La Gente, or Health for the People, is one of six organizations in Santa Cruz County that received a total of more than $1 million in grants from Kaiser Permanente to support health care access for underserved people in 2020. The other grantees are Coastal Kids Home Care, Dientes Community Dental Care, First 5 of Santa Cruz County, Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County and Santa Cruz Community Health.