Milestones

2010 - Goals and Objectives

• Opening Ravenswood Family Dentistry, a 10 operatory dental facility, the Ravenswood Center for Health Promotion, and a branch of the Stanford Health Library across from the main clinic.
• Renovating the Bay Street Clinic site in East Palo Alto to add 2 exam rooms to Family Practice and create additional private offices for staff managers and patient care managers.
• Creating momentum for the silent phase of the RFHC $19 million dollar capital campaign
• Obtaining entitlement for building a 10,800 sq ft expansion to the Bay Road, East Palo Alto Clinic site.

2009

• Preparing to build Ravenswood Family Dentistry, the first full service dental clinic in East Palo Alto and the Ravenswood Center for Health Promotion across from the main clinic. To open in the Spring of 2010.

2008

• Initiated the Integrated Behavioral Health Services program
• Silicon Valley Community Foundation awarded $1.2 million grant to purchase land to build an 10,000 sf expanded clinic.

• RFHC Celebrated its 5th Anniversary

• Broke the 18,000 mark for the number of patients enrolled.
• San Mateo County Board of Supervisors approved the transfer of the Belle Haven Clinic to Ravenswood Family Health Center beginning in September 2005.
• RFHC added two exam rooms to its main site.

• Added pediatric social work services
• Lucile Packard Children's Hospital donated a mobile clinic van to RFHC for health services at East Palo Alto and Belle Haven schools and other locations

2004

• Set up Patient Advocacy Program with Stanford medical student volunteers
• Approved by City of East Palo Alto to develop a mixed use Community Resource Center
• Joined with 14 other community partners in the Get Fit Collaborative to promote healthy foods and physical fitness
• Extended hours to 4 evenings per week and a half day on Saturday
• Set up the Pharmacy Assistance Program (called RAP) to register people for free medicines through pharmaceutical companies
• Started early Cancer Detection Program
• Hosted Lucile Packard Pediatric Weight Control Program
• Joined Pacific Cluster Health Disparities Collaborative
• Received funds for Community Oral Health Initiative from Peninsula Community Foundation and The California Endowment

2003

• Served 5,006 patients with 18,043 visits
• Offered eligibility and enrollment services for Healthy Families, Healthy Kids, and Medi-Cal services
• Started a Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program with grant from Community Foundation Silicon Valley
• Opened an afternoon drop-in Immunization Clinic
• Initiated the Volunteer Program

2002

• Served 2,584 patients with 9,387 visits
• Added pharmacy discount services for uninsured
• Initiated mobile dental clinic services
• Began the outreach and homeless health care program in collaboration with Free At Last and San Mateo County Medical Center