San Ysidro Health Community Heights Family Medicine

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San Ysidro Health Community Heights Family Medicine operates as a Federally Qualified Health Center on El Cajon Boulevard in College Area, San Diego, delivering primary care, behavioral health, and dental services from 4690 El Cajon Blvd, 92115. The clinic holds NPI #1205477841 and operates under Centro De Salud De La Comunidad De San Ysidro, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that has administered community health programs across San Diego County for over five decades. Family medicine physicians including Irene Zink, MD and Michaela Staley, MD manage chronic disease panels covering diabetes, hypertension, asthma, and cardiovascular risk stratification, with lab draws and diagnostic imaging handled on-site. A sliding fee scale tied to household size and income allows uninsured and underinsured patients to access the same clinical services as those covered by Medi-Cal, and prescriptions filled at nearby independent pharmacies such as Care Pharmacy accept the same income-adjusted copay structure. The behavioral health department treats substance use disorders, depression, anxiety, and co-occurring conditions through integrated counseling sessions embedded within the primary care visit workflow. Children's dental services staff pediatric dentists including Rachele Mariano, DDS, alongside general dentists who perform restorations, extractions, and preventive sealant applications for the adult patient panel. STI screening covers gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, hepatitis A/B/C, and conventional and rapid HIV testing, with on-site counseling and treatment initiation for positive results. Interpreter services are available across multiple languages for patients in the El Cajon Boulevard corridor, a stretch that runs west from SDSU through one of San Diego's most linguistically diverse residential zones. Holistic and integrative wellness approaches — including the functional nutrition protocols at EverThrive Health in the College Area corridor — complement the primary care model by addressing inflammatory and autoimmune conditions that fall outside the FQHC's acute-visit framework. TB screening, HPV vaccination, and condom distribution round out the public health mandate that distinguishes an FQHC from a private practice: every clinical decision optimizes population-level outcomes alongside individual patient care.