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Savie Health’s physicians are all volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering at Savie Health, or if you would like to learn more about our organization, please contact Executive Director Eryn Shugart at eryn.shugart@saviehealth.org. Se habla español.

A New Community Resource, Savie Health free clinic

There are an estimated 41,000 residents in Santa Barbara County who don’t have health insurance, either because they work part-time, are self-employed and are not eligible for employed sponsored health insurance and can’t afford the cost of Covered California, or because they are undocumented.

Savie Health free clinic recently opened in Lompoc and is our Santa Barbara County’s first free medical clinic for community members without health insurance. Our founder, Dr. Ahmad Nooristani, is a hospitalist at Lompoc Valley Medical Center, and previously founded the SLO NOOR Foundation free clinic in San Luis Obispo. That clinic has had over 40,000 patient encounters since it opened in 2011.

Dr. Nooristani saw a similar need in Lompoc, and Savie Health opened in June of this year. Savie is open weekdays and on Saturdays, a day that works for many of our patients to be seen, so that they do not have to miss work. Savie pays the costs of patients’ lab and imaging tests including for x-rays and mammograms, provides discounted medication coupons, and works with patients to assess their emotional well-being and social determinants of health. Results from screenings are used by both our physicians, in assessing patients' needs for medication, and also our Licensed Clinical Social Workers, to provide referral to other resources.

Savie Health is available to serve as these patient’s medical home, and to provide ongoing care with the goal of preventing hospitalization and/or death due to diabetes, heart attack, stroke, and other chronic conditions. Savie intends to add dental and vision to its services in early 2023.