Mission
We are dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of our community by providing accessible high-quality care. Our individual and organizational commitment is to ensure this human right through quality service, advocacy and community empowerment.
- Access
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- Open 68 hours a week
- Eight languages spoken by bilingual staff
- Family support and social services
- WIC program sites
- Clinical Services Highlights
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- Primary medical care for children, teens and adults
- Comprehensive prenatal services program: 5,620 pre- natal care visits per year
- School-based and school-linked health services program: includes Logan Health Center (school-based health clinic and youth services) and Tennyson High School
- Chronic disease management: monolingual/bilingual self- management programs focusing on diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer
- Comprehensive dental services
- Community Programs
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- Vida con Esperanza Latina Breast Cancer Support Group
- Alegria HIV/AIDS Spanish Support Group
- Member Services Eligibility and Enrollment assistance for various health insurance
- Community Health Education and Prevention
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- Pregnant and parenting teen program
- Promotoras de Salud: a Spanish language recruitment and training peer-education program
- HIV/AIDS education and prevention programs
- Tobacco-use prevention program
- Youth empowerment programs
- Community Based Research
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- Cultural Competence - A Latino Perspective: Curriculum developed by TVHC staff to address the needs of Latino clients
- Tu Eres Mi Otro Yo, The State of HIV/AIDS on Latinos in Alameda County: Epidemiological and anecdotal data of the effects of HIV on the Latino Community
- Facility Development
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- Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center has expanded and enhanced primary care services in Hayward through the construction of a new 20,000 square foot health facility in downtown Hayward with the opening in Spring 2004.
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Patient Profile
Number of Patients:
22,900
Visits:
60,761
Under 200% FPL*:
96%
Gender:
33% male - 67% female
Primary Language:
Not English - 72%
Race/Ethnicity:
African American - 5.7%
Asian Pacific Islander - 6.5%
Latino - 78.3%
White - 5.2%
Other - 3.8%
Age:
0-19 48.3%
20-64 47.1%
65+ 4.6%
2006 Data
*Federal Poverty Level
Main Site
Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center
33255 9th Street
Union City, CA 94587
Phone: 510.471.5907
Fax: 510.471.9051
www.tvhc.org
Chief Executive Officer:
Joel Garcia
Other Clinic Sites:
- Miranda Health Center
- Logan Health Center
- Tennyson Health Center |