Our History

When a group of concerned Orange County visionaries got together in 1965, they created the groundwork for providing women and men with the education and medical care they needed to plan their families.

Our first health center opened at 211 S. Broadway in Santa Ana, CA, in 1968. Today, Planned Parenthood is one of the largest providers of reproductive health care in Orange County, offering a full range of reproductive health care services to women, men, teens, and families at nine health centers in Orange and San Bernardino counties.

Timeline

1965 Planned Parenthood begins in Santa Ana (when Comstock Laws were reversed)
1965 Comprehensive Sexuality Health Education offered
1968 Our first Health Center opens in Santa Ana
1975 Costa Mesa Health Center opens
1980 Mission Viejo Health Center opens
1981 Colposcopy services initiated
1986 Garden Grove Health Center opens
1988 Upland Health Center opens
1995 Acquired the Women Infant Children (WIC) program
1996 Anaheim Health Center opens
1998 Orange Health Center opens, surgical abortion offered in Orange County
1998 Planned Parenthood administration moves to 700 S. Tustin in Orange, CA
2001 San Bernardino Health Center opens
2004 New, expanded Health Centers launched in Santa Ana and Westminster
2007 Sexual Health Training for Professionals launches
2007 Electronic Medical Record System is implemented
2007 Planned Parenthood in-house lab opens for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea testing
2007 Vasectomy services launch
2007 New, expanded Health Center opens in Mission Viejo
2010 Begin in-house HIV testing
2011 San Bernardino and Anaheim Health Centers renovated and expanded
2011 Parent-Child Communication Course offered
2011 All Family Planning Health Centers open seven days-a-week
2012 152,000 medial visits
2013 Victorville Health Center opens
2014 Melody Women’s Health, primary care from Planned Parenthood, launches
2015 The Planned Parenthood Direct app launches, allowing patients to easily order birth control pills through their smartphones
2016 Service brochures made available online and on mobile phones
2016 183,000 medical visits
2017 PPOSBC wins "Best Places to Work" award from the Orange County Business Journal
2017 Orange Health Center is expanded
2018 San Bernardino Health Center undergoes a remodel
2018 206,000 medical visits
2019 Costa Mesa Health Center moves to a new location
2020 Introduced telehealth options for increased patient convenience including video and phone visits, Drive-Thru visits and no-touch prescription pickup
2021 Provided more than 16,000 COVID-19 vaccines to the community