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Bay Area Community Health is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in southern Alameda County and Santa Clara County. It offers services from Union City to Gilroy in the Bay Area.
It is the result of a merger between Alameda County’s Tri-City Health Center and Santa Clara County’s Santa Clara County. The organization has a combined 70 years of service in the Bay Area. Last year. Before forming BACH, Tri-City Health Center served the Fremont community for 50 years, becoming a central force for providing health services to all in southern Alameda County. Foothill Community Health Center began servicing low-income families and individuals in East San Jose in 1996 and the greater Santa Clara County region in 2011.
Both organizations bring decades of service, relationships, and professional staff to Bay Area Community Health. BACH serves more than 100,000 people, who rely on high-quality healthcare services, regardless of their immigration status, ethnicity, disabilities, or ability to pay.
Governed by a community board with a patient majority, BACH allows its patients to not only pay for their health care, but "have a say" in how their health care is delivered. The patient-majority governing board is a core statutory requirement that every health center must meet in order to receive federal funding.