Clínica Tepati began in 1974, with a focus on serving downtown Sacramento's underserved and undocumented Latino population. Operating out of space provided by WellSpace Health, Clínica Tepati's Spanish interpretation services enable volunteers to communicate effectively, and provide culturally-sensitive care to more than 1,000 patients each year. Our clinic also provides diabetes education, exercise programs, and legal and specialty services for our patient populations.
Center for Reducing Health Disparities
Meaningful community outreach and engagement across research, education, training, and mentoring.
Cultural Transformation Model Final Report
Advancing Health Equity Through a Community-Based Approach
Learn how the Center implemented its Cultural Transformation Model in partnership with a county’s behavioral health department to increase access and utilization of mental health services for their underserved populations.
The final evaluation report of that collaboration highlights the successful results of combining Community Engaged Research, the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards, and the Quadruple Aim framework.
Student-run Clinics
Founded in 2012, the Knights Landing One Health Center, Medical Clinic aims to provide linguistically competent and culturally humble healthcare services to the rural underserved in the Knights Landing area. We seek to fill the gap in primary care services and health education, with particular emphasis on women, adolescents, and farm workers. Our goal is to provide community-centered care by maintaining a high level of community engagement and empowerment, and by continuing to collaborate with other organizations. We are striving to develop a One Health model, linking human, animal, and environmental health. We are also providing learning opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, and medical students in rural health, nurturing their growth as community leaders and advocates.
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Imani is a Swahili word meaning faith and it symbolizes the hope students wish to foster within the African-American community. The clinic was established in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento in 1994 after students became concerned about the staggering and persistent morbidity and mortality rates among African-Americans from hypertension, heart disease, cancer and inadequate prenatal care.
Sacramento region is a home to one of the largest Russian-speaking communities in the U.S. As a newly established student-run clinic at UC Davis, Nadezhda Clinic strives to provide free healthcare to underserved Russian-speaking population. We provide interpretative services, focusing on culturally sensitive primary care and working on establishing specialty clinics.
Working out of the Salvation Army facility near downtown Sacramento, the clinic provides health care screening and services to a large, homeless population. The clinic's dedication to the homeless prompted the Salvation Army to include the clinic in its renovation plans, setting aside two separate rooms solely for patient care and clinical operations.
Established in 2002, Bayanihan Clinic provides accessible primary and preventative healthcare to Filipino immigrants and all diverse, underserved communities of the Greater Sacramento area, while honoring the legacy of Filipino veterans through advocacy and community engagement.
We are an official UC Davis student-run clinic dedicated to serving the Greater Sacramento pediatric populations. R.I.V.E.R stands for Recognizing Illness Very Early and Responding. This means that we aim to address illnesses far before their onset, and what better way than to focus on children, adolescents, and teens! Our services reflect our preventative health goals for the Greater Sacramento community. This involves providing access to quality services including sports physicals, primary healthcare check-ups, vision screenings, and more!
