Next week's ribbon-cutting ceremony at Borrego Health's Coachella Valley Community Health Center will mark a milestone toward removing "fundamental barriers to care" for the area's underserved, an interim executive said in a news release.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held, 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at the health center at 49869 Calhoun St. in Coachella, will celebrate the clinic's opening "and raise awareness of the services to be offered," the news release said. Tours of the clinic will be available after the ribbon cutting.
"Our primary focus is improving the health of the underserved," Rose MacIsaac, Borrego Health interim CEO and chief financial officer, said in the press release. "Opening the Coachella Valley Community Health Center will alleviate many of the fundamental barriers to care for individuals in Coachella, Indio, La Quinta, Mecca and Thermal by introducing a local option for comprehensive health services in a region that has historically lacked accessible care."
The ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled to be livestreamed on Facebook.
The clinic offers a variety of health services, including urgent care, women's health, dentistry, pharmacy and radiology, as well as family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and laboratory services.
Borrego Health is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) federally qualified health center with a stated goal of providing high quality, comprehensive, compassionate primary health care to people in the surrounding area, regardless of ability to pay.
Borrego Health operates several dozen locations in California, including the Centro Medico Coachella dental clinic on Van Buren Street in Thermal and Martha's Village Clinic on Date Avenue in Indio.
Borrego Health strives to "be the community leader in improving the health of the populations in our service area," the healthcare organization says in its mission statement. "Our primary focus is the underserved, with an empowered workforce providing measurable quality and compassionate care."
Anyone who would like more information may visit Borrego Health's website.