Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Health Center Program - Health Center Program Award Number: H80CS00773 Service Area ID Number: 169 City: Oakland State: California Projected Number of Unduplicated Patients in 2026: 29,000 Asian Health Services (AHS) was founded in 1974 to address the unmet health care needs of Asian & Pacific Islanders (APIs), and to advocate for improved health care services. AHS began as a one-room clinic in Oakland Chinatown (California) staffed by volunteers and has since grown in size and diversity to meet the health care needs of the rapidly growing API population in Alameda County, California. Today, AHS operates 14 medical, mental health, and dental sites. In 2023, AHS provided 147,748 visits to 28,144 patients, while in 2022 it provided 147,782 visits to 27,726 patients. AHS employs 575 regular and on-call staff which include 99 providers and 147 nurses, medical, and dental assistants. As part of this Service Area Competition, AHS proposes to provide health care to at least 29,000 patients in 2026. AHS is a national model for serving multiethnic, multilingual, and diverse patient populations. AHS’ proposed services will include primary, dental, behavioral, and specialty mental health care; as well as disease prevention, case management, and enabling services. AHS will provide its comprehensive services in English and 12 Asian languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Khmer, Korean, Mien, Tagalog, Lao, Mongolian, Karen, Karenni, and Burmese. Given AHS’ dual mission of service and advocacy, AHS works closely with its patients and community on issues that impact health care or public health. In the past, AHS has empowered its patients to advocate around important issues such as budget cuts, immigrant rights, civic engagement, health insurance, unemployment. Past examples of patient advocacy include: conducting patient and community engagement around voter registration, and empowering patients to voice their concerns around local, state, or federal budget cuts that could threaten health centers or health care for patients. Most recently, addressing Anti-Asian hate has been a top priority given its adverse impact on the API community. For example, due to this rise in Anti-Asian racism and violence, AHS started its Community Health Unit (CHU) and Special Initiatives Team to provide victims of hate or community violence with mental health, systems navigation, and other holistic and supportive services to promote healing. AHS proposes to utilize SAC funding to continue providing patients with comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, and enabling services to address key health care needs, including diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity and overweight, behavioral health disorders, serious mental health conditions, substance use disorder, oral health needs, and barriers to care including linguistic and cultural challenges. To address these and other important health care needs, AHS’ approach will focus on providing whole-person, comprehensive, coordinated, and integrated health care in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner. AHS’ target population will mirror current patient demographics, where 45% are adults, 36% are elderly, and 19% are children and youth. AHS patients primarily live in Alameda County, and to a lesser extent the surrounding areas. AHS provides services covering the breadth of comprehensive primary care for all lifecycles: Perinatal (prenatal care, low birth weight, diabetes, smoking, breast feeding); Pediatric (obesity, oral health, immunizations, asthma); Adolescence (obesity, sexually transmitted infections, mental health); Adult (chronic disease management, Hepatitis B/C, cancer screening, oral health, mental health); Geriatric (chronic disease management, geriatric condition management, immunizations, oral health, mental health).
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).