Elica Health Centers

Elica is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with over 20 years of experience providing integrated primary medical care, dental/oral care, behavioral/mental healthcare, and other services (e.g., podiatry; on-site pharmacy) annually to tens of thousands of low-income, vulnerable populations. In 2022, nearly all of Elica's 49,925 patients were low-income (e.g., live in households at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level), and over 56% were Persons of Color. Fifty-five percent of our patients were women, and almost 10% of our total patients were over age 65. Additionally, nearly 21,000 of Elica's patients represented both the diverse immigrant communities (e.g., Russian-Americans; Hmong-Americans; Afghan-Americans; Iraqi-Americans; etc.) within our region andrefugee populationsincluding an influx of people into one of the nations largest Ukrainian ex-pat communities. In 2022, Elica continued building our 11th fixed-location health center at 2400 Glendale Lane in Sacramento that is only yards away from our existing clinic at 1750 Wright Street in Sacramento. Both clinic sites are now part of a healthcare campus which will provide conveniently located primary medical care, dental/oral care, behavioral/mental healthcare, an onsite pharmacy, enabling services (e.g., Medi-Cal enrollment assistance) and other health services for a growing number of low-income, underserved populations Sacramento County's Arden-Arcade community. Elica's four Health on Wheels mobile clinics and our on-foot street medicine providers continued to provide primary medical and dental care to thousands of homeless patients annually as well as free veterinary care to their pets. In 2022, Elica was selected to participate in the State of California DHCSX and Sacramento County's Enhanced Case Management (ECM) program to provide healthcare and housing services to chronically homeless people. ECM is the new iteration of The City of Sacramento's former Pathways program in which Elica played a leading role. In 2022, Elica competed for and won a single $1.2 million contract award from Sacramento Steps Forward to design and implement a Coordinated Access Navigator (CAN) program for homeless people. During 2022, Elica implemented our OCHIN Epic electronic health records system, and we completed an On-Site Visit (OSV) review of our operations by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)--for which we received a perfect score. For example, our Quality Assurance (QA) scores during the federal OSV were excellent and improved from the previous OSV. Furthermore, Elica's staff grew to nearly 500 in 2022.By the close of calendar 2023, Elica expects to have served 63,770 unduplicated patients. Over 96% of our patients are low-income, approximately 65% are Persons of Color, 56% are cis-gender women and about 10% are over the age of 65 years. During 2023, to date, Elica has completed both the construction of our Arden-Arcade Health Center campus, and a renovation of our Resource Center's Clothing Closet and Food Pantry (which annually serves thousands of low-income families--including, for example, new immigrants and refugees). This year, Elica added a laser to our array of "state-of-the-art" dental equipment so our patients can benefit from painless filings, and we have expanded the activities of our behavioral health department (partly through a new $535,763 grant from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information). This year, Elica has continued to experience fundraising success which has been exemplified by: a new $375,000 COVID-19 Test to Treat Equity Grant from the California Department of Public Health, a new $75,000 Addiction Treatment Starts Here grant from the Center for Care Innovations, and Sacramento Steps Forward's two-year renewal of our $1.2 million+ CAN grant for Elica's work with local homeless populations. Later this year, Elica will submit an application for a three-year renewal of our $3.2 million+ Service Area Competition federal grant from HRSA. Additionally,Inside Sacramentomagazine interviewed Elica about our provision of free veterinary care for the pets of our homeless patients. Furthermore, despite the continued national employee hiring challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Elica has grown our staff by 20% this year--from about 500 to approximately 600 employees.

Patient fees were charged to help pay for the medical costs of providing services to these at-risk patients. Most revenue is from medi-cal and medicare, as well as other third-party payers. In some instances, patients contribute to the fees (usually in the form of co-pays) for their services.