Medical Assistant

For more than 50 years, Family Health Centers of San Diego’s (FHCSD) mission has been to provide caring, affordable, high-quality health care and supportive services to everyone, with a special commitment to uninsured, low-income and medically underserved persons. FHCSD is one of the top 10 largest Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in the country. We operate more than 90 sites across San Diego County, including 29 primary care clinics, 25 behavioral health facilities, nine physical rehabilitation clinics, nine dental clinics, five vision clinics, four outpatient substance use treatment programs, three mobile medical units, two mobile counseling centers, two urgent care centers, two PACE centers and a pharmacy. Our staff provides care to over 227,000 patients each year, of whom 91% are low-income and 29% are uninsured. Also, as a Title X-funded provider of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care, FHCSD provides Title X sexual and reproductive health care services to over 42,000 unique patients each year. The breadth of our clinic locations, services and programs has grown over the last five decades, making us the largest community clinic provider of health care to the uninsured in the county and one of the top 10 largest community clinic organizations in the nation. We are also the largest health care safety-net provider, largest school-based health care provider and largest comprehensive HIV/AIDS services provider in the San Diego region.