Our mission is to make quality, comprehensive, and integrated health services accessible to all who pass through our doors, regardless of income. These services will be culturally sensitive and will promote community well-being through the practice of malama pono (caring for others in a way that is right).

Established in early 2005, West Hawaii Community Health Center (WHCHC) is a community-based health clinic with a federal 501 (c) (3) designation as a non-profit organization.  We are dedicated to providing health services to all, particularly the uninsured and underinsured in the West Hawaii region of the Big Island of Hawaii.  As of January 2006, WHCHC has received a Federal Section 330e grant for Community Health Centers, qualifying our health center as an FQHC (federally qualified health center).  As such, WHCHC is established as an essential safety net provider that is addressing the needs of West Hawaii’s ethnically diverse, medically underserved population. We are governed by a 17 member Board of Directors, over half of whom are patients at the clinic.