COMMUNITY
Goodbye Ravenswood Family Health Clinic, Hello Ravenswood Family Health Network
A
s of April 1, 2020, the Ravenswood Family Health Clinic (RFHC) has acquired all the sites, operations, grants, staff and patients of the MayView Community Health Center (MCHC), according to RFHC CEO Luisa Buada. MCHC, popularly known as MayView, was a nonprofit primary care clinic, founded in 1972, to provide health care to underserved women throughout northern Santa Clara County. Today MCHC offers primary health care for people of all ages, as well as behavioral counseling, addiction assistance and critical care referral programs. The new entity will be doing business under the new name Ravenswood Family Health Network (RFHN). According to Ms. Buada, the RFHC Board of Directors is the surviving board and it hopes to recruit patients of
4 MAY/JUNE 2020 EL RAVENSWOOD
the former MayView clinic sites onto its board. With this being an acquisition, the MayView Community Health Center, Inc. corporation and its board of directors has no further role in the RFHN and, according to Luisa, is in the process of winding down and dissolving. Five clinical sites will now be operated by RFHN including: Ravenswood Family Health Center - 1885 Bay Road, East Palo Alto; Ravenswood Family Dentistry – 1807 Bay Road, East Palo Alto; MayView Community Health Center 270 Grant Avenue Palo Alto CA 94306; MayView Community Health Center 900 Miramonte Avenue, 2nd Floor Mountain View CA 94040; MayView Community Health Center Columbia Neighborhood Center, 785 Morse Avenue, CA 94085. Luisa Buada, who has headed the RFHC since 2003, will serve as the
Chief Executive Officer of RFHN. “Our combined organization, she said in a letter to the community, ”is expected to have approximately 100,000 patient encounters a year with the potential for growth in 2021 with the gradual expansion of dental services.” Patients of the RFHC will have access to all the sites with some limitations as Santa Clara County has not signed a contract to include Optometry and Optical in their Medi-Cal contract with RFHN. “We are still in the process of adding RFHC at 1885 Bay Road to some of MayView’s payor contracts such as Blue Cross Medi-Cal,” Said Ms. Buada. “Dental services however, due to COVID-19, will continue to remain limited to all our patients because of the new infection control guidelines.” “For now, only urgent dental care will be available for the MayView patients.”
