GILROY
– Part of a 50-acre east Gilroy industrial park that has been
eyed for businesses such as a Canadian biotech startup will house
the county’s newest health clinic.
GILROY – Part of a 50-acre east Gilroy industrial park that has been eyed for businesses such as a Canadian biotech startup will house the county’s newest health clinic.
Supervisors this week approved a $5.5 million land purchase for 11.77 acres of the Southpoint Business Park at Arroyo Circle and Gilman Road. Southpoint, which is roughly 50 percent built out, is one of Gilroy’s prime industrially zoned properties and is already home to the Kaiser Permanente health clinic.
County officials say the health center, which is still two years away from being constructed, will solve Gilroy’s growing demand for reduced cost medical and dental services. It will be called the Valley Health Center at Gilroy.
The San Martin clinic, which is operated by the Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System, was built more than 20 years ago to serve Morgan Hill and Gilroy residents. It is one of nine such clinics in the county.
Robin Roche, the county’s community health services director, said the San Martin clinic will continue to operate as a satellite to the new Gilroy center.
The center will offer general medical, dental and obstetrics and gynecological services. Support services such as a radiology unit and a pharmacy, Roche said. In addition to an ability-to-pay program, the county clinic will take privately insured and MediCal clients, Roche said.
