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.
Primary source
KSBY / New Times SLOFQHC Talent. (2026, May 29). SLO County Closes Paso Robles Health Clinic While Balancing a $38.5M Deficit — Patients Redirect to an FQHC. Primary source: KSBY / New Times SLO. Retrieved July 14, 2026, from https://www.fqhctalent.com/intel/slo-county-paso-robles-clinic-closure-may-2026
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