President's Message

Welcome to AltaMed! As a non-profit organization with a Federally Qualified Health Center designation, we are uniquely able to service the communities in which we live. It has long been our mission to provide access to high quality, comprehensive health and human services to the underserved population of Southern California, in particular in “medically underserved areas” where the ratio of doctors to population is about 1 to 10,000.

To live our mission, we understand that we must also understand the lives of our patients. That's why more than half of the directors on our Governing Board are people who use our services and represent the populations we serve. While this governing structure keeps us at the forefront of patient care, we face an ongoing challenge in the pursuit of adequate funding.

Unfortunately, many of our sources for funding are shrinking while the number of uninsured patients continues to grow. We are rising to the challenge by seeking new solutions and developing creative partnerships with other organizations that share our values and mission.

Our commitment to families and our pledge to continue our tradition of caring is part of our history and visible in our plans for the future. Together with a remarkably dedicated team of health and human services professionals, the AltaMed goal remains focused on fostering innovation. We’re committed to performance improvement and a continuum of care that closes the gap in medical, dental and senior services, as well as in drug treatment and HIV/AIDS programs, teen counseling and more. We welcome the opportunity to care for you and your family, to assist you in any way possible or to become your business partner in health.

I invite you to join with us at AltaMed in our commitment to families. Join us in a relationship that benefits all those involved.

Castulo de la Rocha, J.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer