Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center (VGMHC)

Founded in 1975, Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center (the Center) is a nonprofit organization that provides high quality, comprehensive, and culturally appropriate primary Health care to the Oregon communities of Washington and yamhill counties with a special emphasis on migrant and seasonal farmworkers and others with barriers to receiving healthcare.the Center started as a single clinic in cornelius, Oregon. Today, it is a community Health Center with five primary care clinics, a women's clinic, six dental clinics, five school-based Health centers, a covid-19 services/patient-reengagement clinic, and a mobile clinic, serving more than 52,000 patients who speak 67 languages. The Center offers medical, dental, pharmacy, behavioral/mental Health, wellness, and outreach services. About 98 percent of its patients have low-incomes, 25 percent are uninsured, 38 percent are children, and 54 percent are latinx.the Center's dental providers visit schools to screen children for dental problems and apply sealants to keep cavities at bay. Community Health workers and providers visit migrant camps and commercial nurseries each summer with the mobile clinic to offer medical and dental services and to donate supplies. The Center also offers group education, such as healthy cooking classes, diabetes management, and fitness classes to help patients achieve Health and wellness.the Center constantly looks for new and innovative ways to improve its services and increase access for patients. Among the new innovative programs is enhanced care management (ecm). The Center's goal through ecm, is to improve Health outcomes for our high-risk patients by addressing their needs on multiple levels inside and outside the Center's clinics