“My mother has been employed with IHS for more than 25 years as a pharmacy technician and is excited to be in the new building.” “The program will have its own office at the new clinic, and I was happy to hear they will have a cultural/healthy living garden at the new site as well as other new clinic sites,” she said. Soboba Tribal Council Vice Chairwoman Geneva Mojado has been employed as a health educator with RSBCIHI’s grant-funded Native Challenge program for more than five years but has been a patient at the clinic since she was born.

“This was a vision of previous councils and when we got the land into trust back in 2015 we knew it would be great to have a bigger facility that could offer more services.” “We will plan something bigger when construction is completed we expect that to be sometime in the spring of 2022,” Soboba Tribal Council Chairman Isaiah Vivanco said. Soboba Tribal Council representatives received a gift basket from RSBCIHI board delegates in attendance. Wayne Nelson gave a blessing and was presented with a blanket in appreciation. It was an intimate event with only a handful of invited guests due to COVID-19 precautions. “The BIA lease agreement process started in November 2018 and was approved by the BIA in October 2020.”Ī groundbreaking ceremony was held on Nov. “RSBCIHI has a land-lease agreement with the Soboba Tribe for eight acres for an initial agreement of 25 years with an option for another 25 years,” explained Bill Thomsen, Chief Operations Officer for Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health, Inc. The new clinic and a commodities warehouse will be a combined 53,000 square feet. The current clinic, less than a mile from the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians reservation, is 18,400 square feet.

When the land that currently houses the Soboba Fire Department was put into trust in 2018, the timing seemed right to plan on building a bigger and better clinic. More than 15 years ago, talks began about expanding the clinic to better serve the community.

has been a mainstay for the Native American population for many years. The Soboba Health Clinic operated by Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health Inc.

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