By Ana B. Ibarra, California Healthline, December 18, 2019

Jane Garcia started as an intern at La Clínica de La Raza in the late 1970s, attracted by its mission to provide health care to all — especially immigrants, regardless of their legal status or ability to pay.

Forty years later, Garcia, 66, is the chief executive officer of the organization, which now operates more than 30 clinics in Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties and serves about 90,000 patients a year. About 65% of its patients are Latino, many of whom are immigrants.

Garcia, who has Mexican roots, grew up in the border town of El Paso, Texas. Her family frequently visited the Mexican city of Juárez for groceries, gas and haircuts, she recalled.

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