Lucero Gutierrez, 7, smiles after dentist Ramona English, left, uses a finger to show how a polisher feels while her mother Mayra Hermosillo of Petaluma tries to alleviate her fears at the new Rohnert Park Health Center on Thursday. (JOHN BURGESS / The Press Democrat)
Filling a longstanding gap in Rohnert Park‘s health care landscape, our new state-of-the-art community health center is open one floor above Kaiser Permanente’s medical office building on State Farm Drive.
Run by the Petaluma Health Center, the new 38,000-square-foot clinic brings much needed primary, dental and mental health care services to a city some have called a “medical desert” for uninsured or underinsured residents seeking primary health care.
In some ways, the new Rohnert Park Health Center offers more services than its Petaluma parent, including a 15-chair dental clinic, pediatric dentistry, gambling addiction counseling and optometry services.
“It’s really going to be the center for primary care in Rohnert Park,” said Pedro Toledo, chief administrative officer for the Petaluma Health Center.
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