Lyon-Martin center breaks from HealthRIGHT 360, changes name
Almost two years to the day when then-named Lyon-Martin Health Services announced a massive potential cut in its services, the 43-year-old clinic for women and transgender people is striking back out on its own with a new name, severing a seven-year relationship with a statewide chain of medical centers.Merged in 2015 with HealthRIGHT 360, a network of medical and substance-abuse counseling clinics that now has branches in 13 Bay Area and Southern California counties, Lyon-Martin leaders had hoped the merger would ease its ongoing financial instability.
In 2011, just four years before the merger, the clinic was nearly shut down after its board announced the organization was nearly $1 million in debt.
While HealthRIGHT 360 did bring in important logistical and structural changes, the hoped-for financial stability never panned out.
In 2017, HealthRIGHT 360 also acquired the Women's Community Clinic, and eventually sought to merge the services of both clinics into a single location.
