Two years after staff from the corporate office moved into Planned Parenthood of Orange & San Bernardino Counties’ (PPOSBC) newly purchased headquarters at 801 E. Katella Ave., the organization celebrated with an open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new building. The occasion also celebrated 10 years of continuous growth, marked by plans for a new health center in San Bernardino County, expansions of PPOSBC’s Orange location and a significant increase in the number of exam rooms and patients served at health centers across Orange & San Bernardino Counties. All of this growth combined is projected to allow the organization to serve an additional 36,000 patients and bring an additional $12 million in revenue in the coming year.
PPOSBC, which opened in 1965 and has steadily grown through the years since, with a 66% increase in medical visits over the past 10 years, and a record 240,000 medical visits projected by July 2022. PPOSBC even saw a year-over-year patient increase during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic—a trend that indicates the continuing need in Orange & San Bernardino County communities for affordable, quality reproductive healthcare.
“The purchase of our headquarters is a symbol of the well-established and critical role PPOSBC plays in our community, and demonstrates that we will continue to be a leading healthcare provider well into the future,” said PPOSBC President & CEO Jon Dunn. “For more than 55 years, we have made it our mission to provide high-quality, confidential, affordable health care to every patient who walks through our doors, regardless of insurance, income or immigration status. Today was a day to celebrate a new home for our corporate offices after years of continued expansion, but more importantly it was a day to affirm that we are not going anywhere, and we are here to keep our communities healthy.”
New Headquarters
The ribbon-cutting ceremony and open-house event celebrated the organization’s official purchase of their headquarters building at 801 E. Katella Ave., in Anaheim. PPOSBC had previously been renting the administrative space, having only moved its operations to that location at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020.
The event was attended by local leaders including CA State Sen. Dave Min (D-37), CA State Sen. Tom Umberg (D-34), Anaheim City Councilmember Avelino Valencia, Anaheim Union High School District President Al Jabbar, former mayor and Huntington Beach City Councilmember Kimberly Carr, Garden Grove City Councilmember Kim Nguyen, Supervisor Doug Chaffee, San Clemente Councilmember Chris Duncan, Santa Ana Councilmember David Penaloza, and OC Board of Education Trustee Beckie Gomez
New San Bernardino County Location
In January 2023, PPOSBC aims to open the doors to a fourth health center in the San Bernardino County area, in order to provide care to previously underserved communities in the area. Once open, patients can come to the Planned Parenthood health center for both primary and reproductive healthcare, including physical exams, preventative healthcare, cancer screenings, birth control, STI testing and treatment, and abortion care.
A History of Growth
Over the past ten years, the number of patients seeking healthcare at PPOSBC health centers in Orange and San Bernardino Counties has nearly doubled. Even during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, during FY 2020-2021, the organization saw more patients than ever before, totaling over 228,000 medical visits with more than 116,000 different people. The organization projects 240,000 medical visits for FY 2021-2022 (ending June 2022).
In the last decade alone since 2011, PPOSBC has:
- Opened all health centers 7 days a week;
- Launched and began offering comprehensive primary care through Melody Health;
- Developed the Planned Parenthood Direct mobile app to more easily provide birth control pills and UTI treatments for 18,000 California patients per year;
- Opened a new health center in Victorville, which now provides nearly 22,000 medical visits per year for a population with fewer primary and reproductive healthcare options.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, PPOSBC never closed the doors of any of its health centers, offering telehealth visits, drive-up prescription pickup and providing more than 16,000 Covid-19 vaccines to the community when those became available.
Now, amid a slew of abortion restrictions and bans being passed by states across the U.S., such as Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma, PPOSBC is ready to serve more non-local patients than ever, as many people are forced to travel out-of-state for abortion care—all while continuing to provide high-quality reproductive and primary healthcare to patients here in southern California.
“Our recent growth, and the groundswell of support for abortion rights here in California, says loud and clear: our doors will remain open,” said Dunn. “We were proud and humbled to embrace these growth milestones, and know we will never back down in our mission to provide essential healthcare for all patients, regardless of their circumstances or their ability to pay.”
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