At Salud Para La Gente (Salud), we believe that health and wellness are fundamental building blocks for leading a healthy, happy life. We also know health starts for our patients where we live, work, learn, worship, and play.
Salud is a nonprofit healthcare organization with clinics in Santa Cruz County and North Monterey County. As a health home, weve made it our mission to provide high quality, comprehensive, and cost effective healthcare that is responsive to the needs of the communities we serve.
Together, our leadership team and board of directors guide Salud Para La Gente (Salud) to achieve its mission of offering you comprehensive, high-quality healthcare. We bring some of the greatest minds, from within our organization and the local community, to think about your care as more than simply a visit to the doctor.
For over forty years, Salud Para La Gente (Salud) has made sure our community has had a doctor when it needed one. Salud was founded in 1978. We began as a single free clinic offering healthcare primarily to farmworkers living and working on Californias Central Coast. Since that time, Salud has become a federally qualified health center (FQHC), and grown to five clinics and four school-based health centers providing affordable, high-quality healthcare to nearly 27,000 patients.
We serve a unique, vibrant community including farmworkers and their families. Our origins are rooted in serving local farmworkers and their families. Our region produces the healthy food that feeds America yet our community suffers disproportionately from poor health outcomes like inadequate nutrition, obesity, and diabetes.