Altamed Health Services Corporation

Altamed Health Services Corporation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) federally qualified health center (FQHC) based in Los Angeles, California, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering comprehensive primary care, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, substance use disorder services, behavioral health integration, graduate medical education, and workforce development programs to predominantly Latino, low-income communities across Los Angeles and Orange counties. Founded in 1969 as the East Los Angeles Barrio Free Clinic, AltaMed has grown to become the largest FQHC in California, serving over 270,000 patients annually through 52 clinic and support service sites with approximately 4,000 employees.

AltaMed's federal footprint is almost entirely grant-based rather than contract-based. The organization holds no federal contract vehicles and received a single $20,000 firm-fixed-price contract from the Smithsonian Institution in April 2023 for exhibit collaboration, shipping, and storage services. The overwhelming majority of AltaMed's federal engagement is through direct grants as a prime recipient and sub-recipient under federal grant programs administered by the Department of Health and Human Services. Prime grant awards include a $499,962 five-year award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Professionals under the Primary Care Training and Enhancement program (CFDA 93.884) for residency training in street medicine, effective July 2026 through June 2031; multiple Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Payment Program awards from HRSA's Bureau of Health Professionals supporting its family medicine residency and nurse practitioner residency; and a $4 million four-year award under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention program for development of nurse-led mobile units and an RN residency program. Additional prime grant work includes congressional directed spending for facility construction ($1.505 million), HIV prevention and care programs funded by the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Community-Based Approaches to Reducing STDs cooperative agreements with CDC, Ryan White Title III HIV capacity development grants, substance abuse treatment integration programs funded by SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, and maternal and child health initiatives through the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.

Recent activity reflects substantial growth in grant awards, reaching a peak of 101 awards in 2023 before declining to 57 in 2024 and 10 in 2025. AltaMed's customer base concentrates heavily within HHS, particularly the CDC (76 awards) and HRSA (71 awards listed across component bureaus), reflecting the health center's core mission of safety-net primary care and disease prevention. Thirteen awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore present recompete opportunity. AltaMed acts as a sub-recipient on 61 percent of awards in the source data, including multiple HIV Emergency Relief Project Grants, Integrated HIV Surveillance and Prevention Program awards, and state-passed-through federal funding from California's Department of Public Health and Department of Social Services for child nutrition, reproductive health, teen pregnancy prevention, and immunization quality improvement. Sub-recipient work also includes research partnerships with universities including UCLA, UC San Francisco, University of Arizona, and USC for cancer screening implementation, telehealth equity, and infant motor development research.