Your care is the root of our community
Proposition 44 would cut the funding that keeps our doors open and our team at your side. Nothing about who you are changes — only what we are able to offer you. We're asking you to vote no, for the patients we see every day.
What Prop 44 would mean for Peach Tree
We would not stop caring for you. We would simply have less to care for you with.
Billions cut from community clinics like ours
Services our patients count on, trimmed back or ended
Fewer appointments, and longer waits for a familiar face
Doors closing in towns where there is nowhere else to go
$1.7B
Cut from community health centers and clinics in the first year alone
88%
Of clinics — ours among them — left with negative operating margins
$1.7B
Patients, including our Northern California neighbors, whose care is at risk
Independent study by the Berkeley Research Group.
The neighbors we care for every day
One in four Medi-Cal patients is seen at a clinic like ours. So are working families, seniors, veterans, LGBTQ+ neighbors, and people with no insurance at all — regardless of ability to pay. That is who we open for in the morning, and that is who Prop 44 would reach.
- Family medicine
- Pediatrics
- Women's health
- Chronic disease care
- Mental & behavioral health
- Telehealth
- Dental
The care Prop 44 refuses to count
These are not extras. They are the people who take your call, the ride that gets you here, the words your doctor says in your language. Prop 44 excludes all of them.
The people who know your name
- Nursing managers
- Chief medical officers and physician leaders
- Healthcare enrollment navigators
- Clinic office managers & staff
- Appointment referral coordinators
- Administrative assistants
- Billing & accountants
- IT systems & staff
- Janitorial & facility maintenance staff
- Human resources staff
- Operations staff
- Workforce recruitment & development staff
The support around your visit
- Telemedicine for virtual appointments
- Quality care improvement programs
- Staff training and development
- Translation services
- Your medical records
- Appointment support services
- Transportation services
- Employee benefit related expenses
- Legal & auditing expenses
- Clinic liability insurance
The equipment behind your diagnosis
- Mammogram machines
- CT scanners
- X-ray machines
The building you walk into
- Building new clinics and expanding our sites
- Rent & lease of buildings
- Utilities, telephones, office supplies, printing
- Fire & earthquake insurance
What it would mean beyond our walls
Care is a chain of small, ordinary things. When one link goes, our neighbors feel it first.
For families far from the next clinic
In many rural and underserved communities, a clinic like ours is the only care within hours. If it closes, the choice becomes a long drive or no visit at all.
For everyone waiting in the ER
When patients skip the checkup that catches things early, they arrive later and sicker. Emergency rooms fill, and waits grow longer for every family in line.
For children seen at school
Prop 44 ends funding for hundreds of school-based clinics, where tens of thousands of California children get care without missing a day of class.
We already answer to you
No fine print, no hedging. Here is how our clinic already works.
We are already heavily regulated by federal and state government, with strict reporting and regular audits.
We are not-for-profit. Our resources go to patient care and community benefit, not to profits or shareholders.
A majority of our board of directors are our own patients, so the decisions we make come from the community we serve.
We set pay for our managers the same way we set it for our nurses and caregivers — the competitive wages and benefits it takes to keep a team that remembers your name.
You are our patients, not anyone's bargaining chip
Prop 44 was written to gain leverage over clinics like ours in contract negotiations. It does nothing to improve the visit you had last week. It would only close doors and take care away from the people who need it most.
We are not standing alone
Patients, doctors, nurses, teachers, and community clinics across California are asking for the same thing we are — a no vote on Prop 44.
California Primary Care Association
California Academy of Family Physicians
California Medical Association
California School Nurses Organization
California Hospital Association
California Teachers Association
California Children's Hospital Association
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of CA
California Behavioral Health Association
American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, District IX
California Black Health Network
American College of Emergency Physicians, California
Vote no on Prop 44 this November
Keep our doors open, and keep your team at your side. If you have questions about what this means for your care, ask us at your next visit — a real person will answer.