Central Valley Family Health in Dinuba is now seeing patients at the former Tulare County clinic in town. The clinic network, which is owned by Adventist Health/Central Valley General Hospital, took over the clinic lease starting July 1, after Tulare County moved out according to a plan announced earlier in the year.
“This move expands our ability to serve the Dinuba community,” said Kendall Fults, vice president of ambulatory services for Adventist Health in the Central Valley, who oversees Central Valley Family Health. “Everyone is welcome at our clinics. As a nonprofit, mission-focused organization, we strive to meet the physical, spiritual and mental needs of all we serve.”
Central Valley Family Health, a network of 15 clinic sites throughout the Valley, opened a clinic on Vermont Avenue in Dinuba two years ago. The July 1 move to the former county site at 1451 E. El Monte Way nearly doubled the clinic’s size.
Under the medical directorship of René Charles, M.D., the Dinuba Central Valley Family Health clinic offers family medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, podiatry, ophthalmology and chiropractic care as well as laboratory services and health education.
Charles, a former farmworker who grew up in Orange Cove, is part of a group of three highly trained physicians who provide medical oversight and services at four Central Valley Family Health clinics in the region. All three physicians are bilingual in Spanish and English, and they all grew up in California farmworker communities. The other two are board-certified family medicine physicians Bruno Garcia, M.D., and Ricardo Ramos, M.D.
Besides benefiting from the expertise of the clinic physicians and a fully bilingual staff, Dinuba patients also have access to a wide variety of services such as surgery, neurology, cardiology, oncology and urology at larger Central Valley Family Health clinics in Selma or Hanford.
The network welcomes Medi-Cal, Medicare, commercial insurance and cash-pay patients. It also offers state programs such as Healthy Families, Family Pact, Presumptive Eligibility, Cancer Detection Every Woman and Child Health and Disability Prevention as well as a generous discount program for the uninsured.
For more information about Central Valley Family Health, please call toll-free 1 (888) 443-2273, or visit www.hanfordhealth.com. The Dinuba clinic may be reached at (559) 591-3342.
Central Valley General Hospital is part of Adventist Health, a not-for-profit, faith-based health system operating in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington. Founded on the Seventh-day Adventist heritage of Christian health care, Adventist Health comprises 19 hospitals with more than 2,800 beds, 18,000 employees, numerous clinics and outpatient facilities, 16 home care agencies and three joint-venture retirement centers. For more information, visit www.hanfordhealth.com or www.adventisthealth.org.