https://www.fqhctalent.com Intelligence items mentioning CommuniCare Health Centers (Sacramento). Updated whenever we publish new intel about this FQHC. en-us Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:59:52 GMT https://www.fqhctalent.com/intel/ca-communicare-salud-evening-maternal-dental-access-2026 CommuniCare+OLE's current Salud Clinic page, observed July 16, lists its West Sacramento site at 500 B Jefferson Boulevard. Primary care and integrated behavioral health operate 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with Tuesday and Thursday evening hours until 9 p.m. Perinatal and women's health operates until 9 p.m. Tuesday; dental care until 8 p.m. Thursday; and behavioral health 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. weekdays. The page also posts after-hours lines for an on-call nurse and for a midwife serving pregnant and postpartum patients with a medical problem, in labor, or traveling to the hospital. This is a standing schedule, not a launch or expansion date. It does not establish real-time appointments, walk-in availability, response times, emergency-service capability, staffing or FTE, capacity, visits, wait times, funding, or outcomes. The displayed pharmacy schedule appears internally inconsistent and is excluded; users should confirm current access. Primary source: CommuniCare Health Centers — CommuniCare+OLE — https://communicareole.org/location/salud-clinic/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.fqhctalent.com/intel/ca-communicare-salud-evening-maternal-dental-access-2026 change-management CommuniCare Health Centers — CommuniCare+OLE https://www.fqhctalent.com/intel/sac-county-medi-cal-loss-73k-cost-shift Sacramento County DHS Director Timothy Lutz quantified the H.R. 1 cost-shift to county safety nets: 73,000 county residents will lose Medi-Cal coverage in the next year, with 6,500 becoming the county's indigent care responsibility — 'tens of millions of dollars' that the county must absorb. This is the precise pipeline that will drive uninsured walk-ins to WellSpace Health, Elica Health Centers, One Community Health, CommuniCare Health Centers, and Health for All. Through CSAC and CWDA, California's 58 counties are asking the state for $1.9B in FY2026-27 + $4.5B in FY2027-28 to offset the cost-shift. This ask is timed to the May 14 May Revise budget release. Strategic implication for Sacramento-region FQHCs: model FY2026-27 patient mix shift assuming +10-15% uninsured walk-ins, build a sliding-fee-scale capacity plan, document indigent-care subsidy gaps for county advocacy, and engage the CSAC ask through CPCA regional coalition channels. Counties without the state backfill will absorb the cost by cutting other public-health programs — meaning FQHCs lose contracts (CalAIM, BHCIP grants) AND gain uninsured volume simultaneously. Both edges of the squeeze hit at once. Primary source: Davis Vanguard + CSAC + CWDA — https://davisvanguard.org/2026/05/california-county-safety-net-costs/ Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.fqhctalent.com/intel/sac-county-medi-cal-loss-73k-cost-shift funding Davis Vanguard + CSAC + CWDA https://www.fqhctalent.com/intel/sacramento-yolo-el-dorado-structural-deficits-fy26-27 Sacramento County projects a $101M FY26-27 deficit; Yolo County faces a $27M shortfall with supervisors weighing up to $15M in cuts; El Dorado County is similarly distressed. These county-level structural gaps stack on top of the already-tracked $26M HHS federal rescission, meaning FQHC safety-net partners face escalating patient-volume surges as county services contract. Compounds the WellSpace expansion signal — capacity comes online at exactly the moment county-level safety net capacity retreats. FQHCs in the Sacramento region should model a 2026-2027 surge in acute unreimbursed visits as county programs wind down. Primary source: Davis Vanguard — https://www.abridged.org/news/more-sacramento-region-cities-and-counties-facing-tough-financial-times/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.fqhctalent.com/intel/sacramento-yolo-el-dorado-structural-deficits-fy26-27 funding Davis Vanguard