Health Center Program - Project Title: FY 2025 New Access Points (NAP) (HRSA-25-085) Applicant Organization Name: Tarzana Treatment Centers, Inc. (TTC) Address: 18646 Oxnard St, Tarzana, CA, 91356 Project Director Name: Albert Senella, President/CEO Phone Number: (818) 654-3815 Email Address: ttcadmin@tarzanatc.org Website: www.tarzanatc.org/ Grant Request Amount and Type: CHC; $650,000 Total Number of Unduplicated Patients Projected to be Served in CY 2026: 16,579 Brief Description of the Proposed Project: Tarzana Treatment Centers, Inc. (TTC) is a nonprofit community-based healthcare agency providing services to diverse, low-income, and underserved populations in Los Angeles County, California. Since 1972, TTC has provided high quality, affordable behavioral healthcare and addiction treatment services in Los Angeles County. TTC was originally incorporated in 1972, and for more than 50 years has experience providing substance use disorder treatment services. It has since evolved and expanded to meet the varying and changing needs of the local community, including adding primary medical care services in 1995. Today, TTC is an FQHC-Look Alike operating six (6) permanent primary care clinics which provide care to patients across the lifecycle and regardless of their ability to pay. In its New Access Point (NAP) application, TTC proposes to add a site at 6022 Variel Avenue, Woodland Hills, CA, 91367. Needs to be Addressed: TTC’s proposed service area covers 45 geographical ZIP codes, including a few additional ZIP codes near its proposed Woodland Hills site. TTC’s target population are those living at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines (FPG), which includes more than 875,000 individuals, or 38.4% of service area residents. Utilizing the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2022 American Community Survey and California Health Interview Survey, among low-income service area residents there is a greater reliance on Medi-Cal or self-pay (uninsured), and greater likelihood of having no usual source of health care. The majority of low-income service area residents are of Hispanic or Latino descent (63.2%), a statistic that strikingly stands out against the county, state, and national rates; and 61.6% of all service area residents (or 1,334,435 individuals) speak a language other than English at home. Overall, 23.2% of low-income service area residents report having either “fair or poor” health status. Additionally, there are many factors contributing to limited health care utilization in TTC’s population of focus. These social determinants include transportation barriers, lack of affordable housing, unemployment or low wage paying jobs, limited educational attainment, and challenges qualifying for public insurance. Low-income residents experience higher rates of disease and adverse health conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, long-term COVID-19, and cerebrovascular diseases compared with the general populations in the counties or states. Proposed Services and Population Groups to be Served: TTC is focused on developing effective approaches to improving health outcomes and reducing health disparities for low-income and underserved residents. As such, TTC proposes to provide an array of health care services, including, but not limited to, general primary care, behavioral health, substance use disorder treatment, and enabling services, such as case management and insurance enrollment services. TTC remains dedicated to providing whole-person healthcare, through its integrated programs of primary medical and behavioral healthcare, that treats each person with compassion and according to their assessed individual needs for improved physical and mental wellbeing.
