Salud Family Health Centers

Plan de Salud del Valle, Inc., or Salud Family Health Centers, was established in Fort Lupton in 1970 as a migrant health center. Over the past 33 years Salud has grown to become one of the largest community health center delivery systems in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Region.

Salud primarily serves the uninsured, underinsured, and migrant and seasonal farm-worker populations.

The organization employs over 300 persons at nine centers in north central and northeastern Colorado. Salud's mission is to provide quality, comprehensive primary health care services, and to improve the overall health of the communities it serves by reducing barriers to healthcare including ability to pay, transportation, and language. The Longmont Salud Family Health Center was established in 1979 to provide health care to the local migrant population and has expanded three times in its almost 25 year history - eventually becoming a primary care community health center. The latest expansion is the construction of a new 17,000 square foot facility to increase Salud's capacity to provide medical and ancillary services and to add dental services at the clinic. With this expansion and relocation, Salud will be able to double the number of low income, uninsured and underinsured patients they are able to serve from 6,500 patients to over 12,000 patients annually. A capital campaign is currently underway to raise the final $1.6 million of this $3.5 million construction project. Construction was scheduled for completion in December 2003.