A Community of Care: Desert Senita Featured on Empowered with Meg Ryan
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Discover how Desert Senita, a Federally Qualified Health Center in rural Arizona, is transforming lives by providing comprehensive, integrated healthcare that addresses both physical and mental well-being, regardless of ability to pay.
Empowered with Meg Ryan will feature Desert Senita in an upcoming segment. This segment will explore how Desert Senita is breaking down barriers to healthcare access in remote communities. The segment will highlight the organization’s commitment to providing a full spectrum of services, from primary care and mental health treatment to dental care and social work. It emphasizes the importance of treating the whole person, fostering a sense of community, and empowering individuals to take control of their health. This segment will be distributed to Public Television stations nationwide.
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Desert Senita board of directors rift goes to court hearing next month
AJO — Former Desert Senita Community Health Center board members say they were wrongfully removed during a meeting a year ago, whereas other officials at the clinic, including its CEO, contest the accuracy of that claim in Pima County Superior Court filings. The parties will meet in court on March 4 and 5.
The dispute, according to the amended complaint filed in Pima County Superior Court in April of 2024, stems from a prior Feb. 28 board meeting in which five board members claim they were wrongfully removed, citing infractions to the clinic’s bylaws. In another court filing responding to the amended complaint, defendants say the people were removed legitimately as they had no cause to be there in the first place.
Writing by
Noah Cullen
Who Desert Senita is & What We Do: A Candid Radio Interview with KZOA- Z89.3
This week has been marked both by the celebration of a remarkably successful 2024 at Desert Senita Community Health Center, a year in which we served a record number of patients
in Ajo, established many new service lines designed to increase access to high quality healthcare in Western Pima County.
The Ajo Clinic of Desert Senita Community Health Center has seen as many as 30% more patient’s month to month than in years prior to 2024, work
Desert Senita is now a PREMIER employer in two counties (Pima and Pinal). We have NO problem recruiting highly qualified staff, because we pay exceptionally well across the board, and we do things like provide free quality childcare by a highly trained child development specialist to the Ajo staff and visiting patients.
In this interview nothing is held back, and we go over topics such as:
- What we provide in services and who we serve
- How the failing health center in Ajo was saved to become a now thriving health center (and expanding)
- Dispelling small town rumors in Ajo
- The business of FQHCs
- Our employee culture