Community Health Center Opens Doors
El Proyecto del Barrio celebrated the grand opening this week of a new community health service center that replaces the one destroyed in 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Named S. Mark Taper Foundation Center for a Healthy Community, the $6.2-million, state-of-the-art facility will provide a wide spectrum of health and human services to the underserved residents of the west San Fernando Valley.
The 28,518-square-foot, three-story building has 16 examination rooms, medical staff offices, a laboratory, a pharmacy and an X-ray area.
Services such as perinatal and HIV/AIDS programs will also be offered at the center.
“It took two years to build and it serves about 10,000 people, mostly uninsured, low-income or on Medi-Cal” said Corinne Sanchez, president of Proyecto del Barrio.
The nonprofit human services corporation was founded in 1971 to provide services to Latinos and other low-income Valley residents.
The clinic is at 20800 Sherman Way.
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