SLO County Closes Paso Robles Health Clinic While Balancing a $38.5M Deficit — Patients Redirect to an FQHC

San Luis Obispo County is closing its Paso Robles county health clinic at the end of May 2026 as part of balancing a $38.5 million budget deficit that eliminates a range of public-health services; budget hearings continue in June. The closure removes a public option for North County / Salinas River Valley agricultural-worker patients, who will be redirected to SLO Community Health Centers (an FQHC that operates a Paso Robles site) with no offsetting funding. It joins Santa Barbara County's pharmacy closures and the State-Only UIS PPS loss as a Central Coast safety-net contraction cluster — a capacity and recruiting signal for area FQHCs absorbing displaced demand.