Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas- Seaside

Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas- Seaside is a Dentist in Seaside, CA. It operates as a 501(c)(3) non-profit community-based Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providing comprehensive medical, dental, mental health, and specialty healthcare services. The clinic emphasizes access for farm worker families and the agricultural community, removing barriers to care through a sliding fee scale and acceptance of Medi-Cal, Medi-Care, and uninsured patients. Dental services include general dentistry, restorative dentistry, fixed and removable prosthodontics, endodontics, oral surgery, pediatric dentistry, emergency dental care, preventative dental care, and cosmetic dentistry. The Seaside location is open Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm.

Founded in 1980 by local community members to ensure basic health care for all residents of Monterey County, the organization became the first Federally Qualified Health Center in the county in 1989. Since 2001, it has held Joint Commission Accreditation (TJC) Gold Seal of Approval and its sites are Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) deemed facilities. The dental team at the Seaside location includes Mona Goel, DDS, and Najia Gardezy, DDS, with Omar Chombo serving as Practice Manager and Marissa Villarreal as Supervisor. The clinic also hosts the CHAMACOS study, a longitudinal birth cohort by the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, which has followed over 800 children born to agricultural working families to examine the effects of environmental exposures on health and development. Additionally, FOMAT Medical Research operates as an embedded research organization within the clinic, offering local clinical trial opportunities with bilingual support.

The clinic is located at 1156 Fremont Blvd #101, situated on Fremont Boulevard. It is about a quarter of a mile from Trinity Park and the B.J. Dolan Youth and Education Teen Center, and roughly three-tenths of a mile from the Seaside Branch of the Monterey County Free Libraries.

Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas- Seaside stands as a long-standing, accredited provider in Seaside, offering a full range of dental and medical services rooted in its mission to serve the local agricultural community.