Larochelle Anna B

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Primary care at the City Heights Family Health Center in College Area, San Diego, includes the practice of Anna B. Larochelle, MD, based at 5454 El Cajon Boulevard, 92115. The City Heights Family Health Center holds federal designation as a Federally Qualified Health Center, a classification that enables sliding-scale fees based on household income and mandates acceptance of Medi-Cal, Medicare, and uninsured patients. Family Health Centers of San Diego is one of the largest community health organizations in the county, and the El Cajon Blvd clinic serves as a primary access point for residents in College Area, Rolando, and the surrounding 92115 neighborhoods. Community health centers in this College Area ZIP share patient populations with other FQHC-model clinics nearby, including San Ysidro Health Community Heights Family Medicine, which operates a separate federally qualified site in the neighborhood. The clinic houses approximately 55 providers across 17 medical specialties including family medicine, pediatrics, dental, and behavioral health, creating an integrated care model where patients complete multiple appointments in a single building visit. Dr. Larochelle's primary care scope covers wellness examinations, immunization administration, chronic disease follow-up, acute illness management, and referral coordination to specialty departments housed within the same facility. The 5454 El Cajon Blvd location sits along the SDSU Transit Center corridor, drawing patients from campus-adjacent housing, the international dining corridor, and the residential blocks south of El Cajon Boulevard. FHCSD clinics employ an integrated behavioral health model that embeds mental health screening into routine primary care visits, allowing physicians to initiate depression and anxiety assessments during standard physical exams. Podiatric conditions identified during primary care encounters, particularly diabetic foot evaluations, route to specialized providers including Foygelman Podiatric Corporation in College Area for wound care and biomechanical assessments. The clinic's El Cajon Boulevard address places it within a mile of SDSU's main campus, and Family Health Centers of San Diego's multilingual staff roster includes providers and interpreters serving the Vietnamese, Somali, Spanish, and Arabic-speaking communities concentrated in this section of the 92115 ZIP.