A community health clinic in Santa Rosa is serving its patients in a unique way since the wildfire destroyed their facility last year.

Thanks to a $4 million grant, people needing medical care through Santa Rosa community health are seen by nurses and doctors in shipping containers.

They’re clinics in a can. On the inside, it looks like any other exam room at a doctor’s office.

On the outside, it’s quite different.

“It’s a unique setting, and I really love actually being outdoors,” Family Nurse Practitioner Suzanne Dedmore said.

Santa Rosa community health’s vista clinic was destroyed in last year’s fire and they needed a place to assist their 24,000 patients.

That’s when the Tipping Point Community stepped in, raising millions of dollars to help non-profits supporting low-income communities who were struggling after last year’s fires.

“It’s pretty incredible,” Tipping Point Community Communications Director Marisa Giller said. “We were proud and really honored to play a small role in the recovery, and there’s a long road ahead, but to be able to see an amazing group like Santa Rosa Community Health take that $4 million grant and put it to use in a way that they were able to continue the care to people who really needed it at a time they needed it most feels really good.”

The healthcare facility that burned during the wildfire last year.

They just started to rebuild about four weeks ago.

“It’s bittersweet,” Santa Rosa Community Health CEO Naomi Fuchs said. “Of course, we are still missing the old vista that was destroyed in the fires, but we are excited and looking forward to getting it rebuilt. It’s will probably be another year.”

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