Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics provides high quality, comprehensive, affordable healthcare to all people, regardless of their ability to pay, in an environment that fosters respect, compassion and dignity.
COVID-19 TESTING at our clinics
During the CoVid-19/Coronavirus outbreak, the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics (SBNC) asks that our patients please do the following to help protect you and all of our patients and dedicated staff.
- Call ahead if you do not feel well so we can help you decide how best to provide your care. Per CDC guidelines, if you are feeling ill, please do not come to the clinic without calling first.
- Please keep healthy friends and family members home rather than joining you for your appointment. Children should have only one adult with them. Adults with caregivers should only bring one adult with them.
- As the local situation changes, you may be offered a visit by telephone or video (Telehealth) instead of visiting the clinic to keep you healthy.
We have been partnering with other community medical leaders to make sure our clinicians are up-to-date on all the breaking information on the pandemic from local, state, and national sources. Our staff has been trained extensively on sanitizing our facilities and clinicians and their support staffs have been trained in the use of personal protection equipment (PPE) and masks have been fit-tested to provide the safest level of security in the outpatient setting while adequately evaluating at-risk patients.
To reduce the risk of infection to our healthy patients, we are not seeing any patients with respiratory symptoms or fever until after 4:30 PM. We have been contacting our stable patients who have routine visits scheduled and are postponing or converting these visits to Telehealth visits so that we have capacity to see those in the community who need to be seen in the health care center right away. We will continue to offer emergency only Dental Care.
Please call before coming to the health care center when you wish to be seen so we will be ready to serve you and also prepared to protect other patients and staff.
- Triage personnel who can quickly evaluate you for CoVid-19 like symptoms will be greeting patients at the front entrance of our clinics and checking temperatures and having you clean your hands before entering the clinics.
Our clinic hours have changed. All clinics will now close at 6 PM. To support the mandate for social distancing during the CoVid-19 pandemic, we are in the process of developing ways to care for patients remotely by phone or video (Telehealth), through your mobile phone or computer. If you are interested in this type of visit, please call our Call Center at 844-594-0343. We will continue to accept new patients who become ill and need assistance.
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics remains dedicated to providing the highest quality, affordable medical, dental and behavioral healthcare to its community of need. We are also committed in keeping our staff as safe as possible during this stressful time. We will continue to stay up-to-date of community, state, and national guidelines.
For Additional Resources Click on the Links Below:
Santa Barbara of Public Health
California Department of Public Health
Stop the Spread of Germs
Detenga la propagación de los microbios
FACT SHEETS on CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19)
What you need to know about CORONAVIRUS DISEASE
If you are sick with CORONAVIRSUS DISEASE
CALL US TODAY FOR AN APPOINTMENT!
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844-594-0343
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Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics has 8 clinic locations to serve you close to home. You can visit us at one of our clinics in Santa Barbara, Isla Vista and Goleta where we offer medical, dental and behavioral health services.
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics has multiple career and volunteer opportunities available. We offer competitive pay and benefits for employees and excellent volunteer experiences for those interested in healthcare.
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Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear scrubs or take patient calls at a call center, some are working with others through telehealth, while others are social distancing and staying at home as recommended by CDC and WHO,…and others donate whatever is in their hearts by a click to a link www.sbclinics.org/donate
Today is World Health Day and in honor of that, Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics wants to acknowledge all of our staff, patients, community partners, and supporters on this special day.
Today let’s stand strong. Today, let’s all be heroes.
Let’s continue to keep each other safe during the CoVID-19 outbreak by following the Centers of Disease and Control Guidelines:
• Clean your hands often- Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after you have been in a public place or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
• If soap and water are not available, use hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth
• Avoid close contact with people who are sick
• Practice social distancing being at least 6 ft apart from each person
• Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth face cover when around others
• Cover coughs and sneezes
#WorldHealthDay
Join in tomorrow on 99.9 KTYD at 8:30am to listen to our collaborative partner, Dr. Paul J. Erickson, as he discusses to the public about coping skills during isolation.
Dr. Erickson is a Medical Director of Psych Services who specializes in Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine at our Bridge Clinic.
The Bridge Clinic is a collaboration with Cottage Health that is located directly across from Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, and focuses on providing individuals diagnosed with substance use disorders and experiencing emergency situations who need immediate help after admission to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and/or Cottage Emergency room.
The Bridge Clinic focuses on providing necessary support and short outpatient treatment, as well as medically assisted treatment to stabilize individuals with a substance use disorder, that have the desire to seek help.
For more information on the Bridge Clinic, please visit our website at www.sbclinics.org or call us at 805-324-8336
We are very lucky to have Dr. Erickson in our community! True hero!
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2017-2018 IMPACT REPORT
FIVE Years: Four Stars!!!
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics is proud to announce our fifth consecutive 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity evaluator. Only 14% of charities receive at least 4 consecutive 4-star evaluations, indicating that our organization demonstrates strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency.
