City Celebrates New Health Resource Center At 555 Stevenson Street, San Francisco

Mayor London N. Breed and the city are celebrating the inauguration of the Maria X Martinez Health Resource Center (MXM) at 555 Stevenson Street, Mission District, San Francisco. The newly constructed urgent care and transitional primary care clinic is named after longtime San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) leader, Maria X Martinez, who dedicated her career to advocating for and providing the highest quality health care to our most vulnerable communities.

MXM is one of the San Francisco Health Network’s (SFHN) two urgent care clinics and receives approximately 15,000 visits a year. The center specializes in providing multi-disciplinary services to respond to a wide range of medical, psychological and social needs of vulnerable adults in San Francisco, especially people experiencing homelessness.

Maria X Martinez Heath Resource Center via Twitter (London Breed)

SFHN includes 14 primary care clinics,11 clinics that focus on youth health and two hospitals. MXM replaced the Tom Waddell Urgent Care Clinic which operated at 50 Ivy Street. MXM offers drop-in urgent care, transitional primary care, dental services, podiatry, follow-up wound care, and medications for substance use addiction treatment. The center includes 10 upgraded exam rooms with an accompanying counseling room, four consultation rooms, four dentistry chairs, a laboratory, office space, and conference rooms for staff.

Maria X Martinez Heath Resource Center Labs via Twitter (London Breed)

MXM is part of an important legacy of health services delivering urgent care in San Francisco.  The clinic’s namesake worked for SFDPH for 23 years, during which she passionately championed the needs of vulnerable populations. Maria X Martinez focused on building initiatives and developing care models for high-risk populations through new collaborations and system design. A key member of SFDPH leadership, she served in various roles including Deputy Director of Community Programs, Senior Staff to the Director of Health, Chief Integrity Officer, and the Director of Whole Person Care.

Maria X Martinez Heath Resource Center Interiors via Twitter (London Breed)

MXM served an immediate need to upgrade and relocate the former Tom Waddell Urgent Care Clinic to more holistically serve clients and ensure patient needs are met. Patients at MXM primarily come from the surrounding South of Market, Tenderloin, and Civic Center neighborhoods. The resource center was delivered on-budget and funded through the SFDPH General Fund and Certificate of Participation (COP) as well as the Homelessness and Supportive Housing General Obligation (GO) Bond.

1064-1068 Mission Street with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the background, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

The resource center houses the offices of the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s Homeless Outreach Team (SFHOT), a mobile team that engages and stabilizes clients on the streets by voluntarily placing them into shelters and housing or connecting them with other resources.  It is also comprised of two other WPIC programs; the San Francisco Street Medicine Team, which provides medical services and assessments to people on the streets, and the Post Overdose Engagement Team, part of the Street Overdose Response Team (SORT) that focuses on overdose prevention for people experiencing homelessness. Both programs utilize MXM as a central hub to support clients into transitional primary care.

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