The Clinic serves as a link between the medical school and the surrounding community, so that medical students can take a break from the grueling academic program and use their knowledge to help promote the health and well-being of a community in need. It was founded in order to offer accessible and quality health care to a medically underserved population, to provide role models to the Latino community and to allow medical students an opportunity to become more aware of the needs of the medically underserved while developing their own medical skills. UCD physicians, medical students and undergraduates staff and operate Clinica on a volunteer basis. The Clinic, located in behind Sutter-Davis Hospital, also has a satellite location in West Sacramento. The Clinic is open to anyone who cannot afford private health care or has no health insurance.
Patients pay according to a sliding fee scale.
Medi-Cal is also accepted. Patients are from all income, ethnic and age groups. All physicians and medical students who work in the Clinic are volunteers. We believe everyone should be able to obtain quality health care. We turn no one away based on inability to pay.