VENTURA COUNTY — Clinicas del Camino Real, Inc. is excited to expand the reach of our healthcare services, deepen our community connections and honor one of our longest-serving board members with the completion of the Karen R. Burnham Health Center, scheduled to open to the public on May 24, 2021 at 1100 West Gonzales Road in Oxnard.
The Karen R. Burnham Health Center is a state-of-the-art facility that will enable Clinicas to keep pace with the growing needs of the Oxnard community. The clinic’s layout is designed to support cohesive, convenient, and streamlined health care delivery to its patients – including primary care, dental, optical, behavioral health, and X-ray services – in a central, easily accessible location. A full range of comprehensive services are brought together under one roof so patients can save time in addressing a variety of health care needs in one location. The new facility includes 30 primary care exam rooms; 4 behavioral health exam rooms; 10 dental exam rooms; 3 optical exam rooms; 4 chiropractic exam rooms; as well as space to provide telehealth treatment.
“We look forward to the opening of the Karen R. Burnham Health Center as this will allow us to serve our patients with broader services, we welcome our community with open arms to our newest health center, while we continue to strive to deliver the highest standard of care,” said Health Center Manager Abraham Barragan.
Karen R. Burnham (fondly known to family and close friends as Renee) was a loyal, honest, giving, and compassionate woman of integrity who gave her time, finances and energy unselfishly to her community and any family member in need. As a member of the Overcomer Ministries Church in Oxnard, her devotion to family and church was of the utmost importance to her. Karen’s participation in the community extends well beyond her 37 years of increasingly responsible positions within the City Oxnard where, in 2015, she retired as the Interim City Manager. Her role in the inception of the Bard Library in South Oxnard and the Oxnard Police Activities League (PAL) sports programs were both instrumental and everlasting. She proudly served on the Board of Directors for the Salvation Army, The Bernard T. Carn Foundation, and Clinicas del Camino Real, Inc. for more than 30 years until she departed this life. Clinicas Board of Directors voted unanimously to name the health center after Karen to recognize her tremendous contributions to the organization over her many years as a member of the board and a pillar to the Oxnard community.
In a nation with an abundance of resources and advanced healthcare technology, community health centers like Clinicas’ can offer everyone equal access to care.
“We believe that access to quality health care is a key building block that helps our community prosper and grow. I am confident that this health center will help improve community health and be a valuable resource that will serve our community now and into the future,” said Anna Monroy, Chief Operations Officer.
The Karen R. Burnham Health Center will commemorate Karen’s love and compassion for the community by increasing access to crucial primary care while reducing barriers such as cost, lack of insurance, distance, and language for all patients.
Clinicas del Camino Real, Inc. bilingual and bicultural staff delivers its services on a personal and humane basis, and reaches out to members of the community who are traditionally underserved due to limited income, resources, cultural and language barriers. Clinicas del Camino Real’s Board of Directors is composed of concerned citizens, health professionals, and members of the public and private sector of Ventura County.
It is the mission of Clinicas to provide quality, comprehensive and preventative, health care services to Ventura County’s community to save lives and restore good health to the underserved population of the county at rates that are consistent with a client’s ability to pay. Clinicas operates 16 full-service health centers, a fleet of mobile medical units, and more than 25 school- based sites, patients of all ages are embraced by a culture of care from more than 900 employees.