Borrego Health – Centro Medico Escondido

Specialties

Borrego Health provides high quality, comprehensive, compassionate primary health care to the people in our communities, regardless of their ability to pay. We serve these communities and adjoining regions with respect, dignity and cultural sensitivity as a medical home and safety net for essential health care and social services.

Borrego Health is a non-​profit 501©(3) Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and a Federal Tort Claims Act Deemed (FTCA) facility. The Federal government acts as the primary insurer. FTCA deeming enables us to invest more to maintain and increase health care services and fund quality improvement activities in our service areas.

Borrego Health, operating in San Diego and Riverside counties, tailors its programs to meet the health needs of men, women, children, adolescents and senior citizens in our surrounding communities.

At Borrego Health, we have convenient hours on evenings and weekends on most of our sites, in order to provide you and your family access to our multiple services. We look forward to your visit to take care of your health care needs.

History

Established in 1965.

Borrego Community Health Foundation (BCHF) is a private, non-​profit 501©(3) Federally Qualified Health Center operating in San Diego and Riverside counties. BCHF tailors primary and preventive health programs to meet the health needs of men, women, children, adolescents and senior citizens in our surrounding communities, and those at risk of developing serious diseases such as diabetes. Without these and similar programs, many of the residents in this isolated desert region would have difficulty obtaining professional medical care.

To reach those populations, BCHF acquired fully operational clinics in Cathedral City, El Cajon, Julian, Coachella Valley, Escondido, Desert Hot Springs and Thermal. In addition, the foundation opened a full-​time pharmacy in central Borrego that dispenses medications to outlying clinics through daily messenger service.

Borrego Community Health Foundation offers a wide array of health services that are unique in small, isolated communities such as Borrego

Meet the Manager

Sonia M.

Manager

Sonia has been office manager since 1993 when Centro Medico-​Escondido opened as a part of the CML Del Valle Medical Group. The clinic is the newest member of the Borrego Community Health Foundation family, which Dr. Ratniewski serves as medical director.