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May 31, 2024
Dear Community and Website Guests,
K’ima:w Medical Center is an amazing organization, and I’m extremely proud of our exponential growth over the past few years. We have plans for an extensive clinic expansion with many new facilities, a major employee housing project, and a mobile medical RV. In 2023, KMC achieved the GPRA highest scores (23/26) out of all California Tribal Clinics! It has been such a joy for me to serve in a leadership capacity for the past 6 years. Although I am transitioning out of the CEO role in July and will be welcoming in new leadership, I can’t wait to see where KMC will be in a few years’ time. The foundation is strong, and the future is very bright!
Dr. Stephen Stake, CEO
Dr. Stake is a specialist in health system administration, program development, monitoring and evaluation, analysis, teaching, and cross-cultural communication. He has over ten years of public health leadership focusing on social and behavioral interventions for indigenous populations including Apache, Mixtec, and Sylhetti.
As a Johnson & Johnson Community Health Care Scholar for his work in developing sustainability in poor areas, he comes to K’ima:w Medical Center from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health where he was an Associate Faculty member.