Chicken Ranch Rancheria breaks ground on a $32M Tribal FQHC in Jamestown — nearly 20,000 square feet, BHCIP-funded, with staff already grown from 22 to 101
The Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California broke ground on a $32 million health and wellness facility on Fifth Avenue in Jamestown, just off Highway 108, under the headline "'Not just a clinic, a promise.'" The tribe purchased nearly two acres for the project, which will run to nearly 20,000 square feet and is expected to open around December 2027.
It will house primary care, behavioral health, wellness services, addiction recovery, walk-in care and pain management, and its design reflects traditional Me-Wuk basket architecture. The operating entity is the Mathiesen Memorial Health Clinic, which the source describes specifically as a "Tribal Federally Qualified Health Center" — a designation this platform tracks thinly, which is part of why the item matters.
Two figures are worth holding onto: staffing has grown from 22 employees in 2015 to 101 by 2026, and the capital comes from the California Department of Health Care Services Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP). That makes this one of the clearer examples of Prop 1 / BHSA-era infrastructure money landing on a tribal health center rather than a county program — a useful counterweight to the Prop 1 prevention-funding closures tracked elsewhere in this feed.
Key takeaways
- A Tribal FQHC capital project: $32M, nearly 20,000 sq ft, opening around December 2027, funded through DHCS's Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program.
- Mathiesen Memorial Health Clinic's staff grew from 22 in 2015 to 101 in 2026 — real capacity growth, not just a building.
- BHSA-era infrastructure money reaching a tribal health center is a useful counterweight to the Prop 1 prevention-funding closures tracked elsewhere in this feed.
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FQHC Talent. (2026, July 1). Chicken Ranch Rancheria breaks ground on a $32M Tribal FQHC in Jamestown — nearly 20,000 square feet, BHCIP-funded, with staff already grown from 22 to 101. Primary source: The Union Democrat. Retrieved July 31, 2026, from https://www.fqhctalent.com/intel/chicken-ranch-rancheria-tribal-fqhc-jamestown-groundbreaking-2026
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