Tualatin, Ore. – Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center will open its sixth School-Based Health Center (SBHC) at Tualatin High School on Friday, May 1st. The occasion will bring together officials from Virginia Garcia, Tigard-Tualatin School District and Tualatin High School, along with students from Tualatin High School.
The Tualatin SBHC joins the existing Tigard SBHC to expand services in the district. It will provide primary care, dental care and mental health care to students. The goal of the SBHC is to keep students healthy and ready to learn. SBHCs exist to serve our youth where it is easiest to reach them—in school!
The event is open to the public and all are welcome to attend.
Tualatin SBHC staff will offer tours of the clinic after the ribbon cutting. For more information about Friday’s event, please contact Olivia MacKenzie at [email protected] or 503.352.8612 or Susan Stark Haydon at [email protected] or 503-431-4001. WHO:
Ernie Brown, Superintendent—Tigard-Tualatin School District
Gil Muñoz, CEO – Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center Linda Moholt, CEO – Tualatin Chamber of Commerce
Tours of the clinic will be offered to the media before the program at 10:00 am. Tours will also be offered to the media and the public after the ribbon cutting.
WHEN:
Friday, May 1, 2015 10:00 am for media tours
10:45 am program begins
WHERE:
Tualatin School-Based Health Center 22300 SW Boones Ferry Road
Tualatin, Ore., 97062
Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center provides high quality, comprehensive and culturally appropriate primary health care with a special emphasis on those with barriers to receiving health care. Since its founding 39 years ago, Virginia Garcia has grown from a grassroots volunteer-run clinic into a full service health care home serving Washington and Yamhill Counties. Today, Virginia Garcia employs over 400 people, has a budget of more than $30 million, and serves nearly 38,000 patients at five primary care clinics, five dental clinics, five school-based health centers and a mobile outreach clinic.
Visit www.virginiagarcia.org for more information on the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center.
