How the Valley’s Beloved Nonprofit Delivers

Comprehensive Care to 10,000 of Our Neighbors

Vision Forward

Vision Forward is DAP Health’s 10-year strategic plan that will see the organization grow from serving 10,000 individuals annually today to 25,000 patients and clients a year by 2025. So far, this broadminded expansion has encompassed:

• The purchase of the Annette Bloch CARE Building and the opening of three primary care clinics within.

• The opening of the Orange Clinic and Yellow Clinic at the main campus in Palm Springs.

• The opening of a DAP Health sexual wellness clinic in Indio.

DAP Health is an internationally renowned, advocacy-based Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) based in Palm Springs. Its mission is to improve the overall well-being of the entire desert community — especially the disenfranchised who face disparities in accessing care due to sexual orientation, gender identity, race, or class — by making health equity and justice a reality.

“Health equity at DAP Health means no one ever wonders if they belong,” says CEO David Brinkman, “they just feel it.”

Founded in 1984 in the face of the HIV/ AIDS crisis, today the nonprofit provides comprehensive, culturally competent, quality wraparound services that include primary and preventative medical care, HIV care, sexual wellness testing and services, dental care, behavioral health care, social services, affordable housing, and more. No one is ever turned away due to inability to pay.

The Three Cornerstones of DAP Health

Establishing Health Care Equity for All No one should feel like an outsider when they see a medical or mental health provider. And no one should go without health care due to lack of insurance or inability to pay.

Ending Epidemics

Thanks to its proven success in working toward the end of the HIV epidemic, DAP Health has been able to address new community health crises — whether COVID-19 or mpox — head-on, in a swift and successful manner.

Addressing Behavioral Health Challenges and Addiction

DAP Health provides stigma-free individual and group therapy to address myriad mental health needs, including recovery from addiction.

• Groundbreaking on Vista Sunrise II, which will boast 61 new units of affordable housing, to be completed in 2023.

Still to come is the Tenet Health Pavilion, a structure that will bridge the Barbara Keller LOVE Building and the Annette Bloch CARE Building, and which will include:

• A transit- and pedestrian-friendly pathway.

• A central registration area for all patient services.

• A café open to the public that will be staffed and managed by clients of DAP Health’s Return-to-Work Program.

To learn more about how you can support DAP Health’s mission, please visit daphealth.org.