Lyon-Martin Health Services provides excellent health care to heterosexual women, bisexual women, lesbians and transgender people in a safe and compassionate environment, with sensitivity to sexual orientation and gender identity; all services are regardless of ability to pay.
Founded in 1979, by a group of medical providers and health activists as a clinic for lesbians who lacked access to nonjudgmental, affordable health care, the clinic soon became a model for culturally sensitive community-based health care. The clinic was named after Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, feminists and well-known LGBTQ civil rights activists.
On March 1st, 2015 Lyon-Martin merged with HealthRIGHT 360—a family of health centers and behavioral health programs serving communities throughout California. The partnership enables both organizations to maintain and expand culturally competent primary care and behavioral health services to women, queer and transgender people.While preserving each organization’s unique specializations and orientation to care, the strategic alliance bolsters both groups in the changing landscape of healthcare under the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Today, Lyon-Martin continues to provide primary and preventive healthcare, mental health services and HIV services to all women, including low-income and uninsured, and transgender people.
Lyon-Martin Health Services is committed to providing quality, compassionate, innovative care. Our patients are women, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender and genderqueer people. Our patients are diverse in age, diverse in ethnicity and diverse in social circumstance. We advocate for the improved health and healthcare of all people, especially the populations we serve. We understand that we must both provide health care today and shape the health care of tomorrow.
Lyon-Martin is a safe, warm, welcoming environment. We are non-judgmental and down to earth. We recognize each person as unique and value their distinctive point of view. We believe good health means caring for both the body and the mind. We listen to our patients. Our promise is to meet people where they are. Our hope is to help them positively change their life experience.
