Striving to Build Lifelong Health
Through Community Partnerships
By Jeannie Howard
Through a series of partnerships and mergers
with other smaller healthcare centers and private
practice providers, LifeLong Medical Care has
grown from its original location, Over 60 in Berkeley, to
fourteen locations throughout Alameda and Contra Costa
counties. Expanding from the original goal of offering
elderly and aging care to individuals over 55 years old to
provide care for all ages, patients are now able to receive
healthcare for everything from prenatal, pediatrics, and
primary care, to senior care and day services, metal and
behavioral health as well as dental and urgent care.
Throughout the consistent expansion over the past
41 years, LifeLong Medical Care has never faltered in
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their mission of helping to ensure everyone in need of
healthcare, regardless of their ability to pay, is able to
receive the care and services they seek. “The services are
available to everyone regardless of their immigrant status
or ability to pay,” says Lucinda Bazile, deputy director,
who has been with the organization for more than
twenty years.
A growing perspective in healthcare is that of whole
patient care, meaning the healthcare of an individual is
addressed along with other social factors at play in their
lives; this is a perspective that LifeLong Medical Care
has been practicing for more than two decades. A core
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