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Review of Sacramento Native American Hea...

Don't take your dogs here. If you are actually ill...

Don't take your dogs here. If you are actually ill with more than ONE health issue at a time, you will be waiting MONTHS for a referral. Shame on this place. Literally contributing to my early death. Sacramento needs more places that ACCEPT MediCal.
Great place if you have no health problems. Let that sink in. It's allegedly a clinic.

Updates- dental will try to tell you you have many cavities because that's where their bread and butter is. Get a second opinion because they only fill ONE cavity per visit with MediCal, which is draconian.

Lacks gynecology services despite having services for trans folk (great to be inclusive, but not many downtown places for gyn take MediCal, so maybe putting a gyn in there to serve the half of the population who needs gyn services is important)... not a competition but I noticed trans persons being served respectfully, awesome, but nothing for cis women... so not a good place for cis women needing gyn care/referrals.

Lacks many other specialties and I am actually a believer in chiropracty, but have reasons to suspect the one they have there.

Can't speak to the "community programming" they seem to be big on to disguise that they don't actually administer care well.

Mental health is stuck in the 1950s, bad attitudes about actually seeking mental health, "you shouldn't need medication," very discouraging and backwards thinking. Therapists appear to be interns, will not disclose credentials, do not seem very experienced or professional.

Also, an absurd and punitive lateness "policy," on their clock, not yours, selectively enforced, and denying that not everyone is a motorist...being 5 minutes late is hardly late in the medical world, I have never had an on-time doctor, including here.

As someone else noted, when starting care here,they attempted to alter/discontinue a non-narcotic medication I had been on for years (with reason & documentation), which is NOT standard medical practice.

And, as others have noted, they refuse to give sleep or pain medication--maybe if you're elderly, I wouldn't know (apparently young people never have sleep or pain issues, good to know all my problems are solved). Overall, one of the worst clinics I have ever been to, and, as a disabled person, I know clinics. Anything more than a note for school/employer totally overwhelms them. In my opinion, they should be shut down because they take public funding and do very little with it.

Another red flag- asking about your birth control use at every appointment (even mental health, which makes zero sense), because that's where their funding comes from and they only care about funding. The office itself is not run down, but their policies and procedures are, and the incompetence is beyond belief. They could not even obtain my prior medical records despite my giving authorization. I was doing the work of their admin staff because their admin staff wasn't doing it, thanks for assuming your patients have nothing else to do but check up on you to find you NOT doing your job. Referrals should not take months, period.