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Dignity-Centered Care: Deepening Equity in Community Health

In the Arena with NOW

In the Arena with NOW
Dignity-Centered Care: Deepening Equity in Community Health
Apr 17, 2025 Season 3 Episode 8
NOW Vital Village

In this special crossover episode with Center for Care Innovations’s Health Pilots podcast, we explore how the Petaluma Health Center team in Point Reyes and Bolinas is reshaping healthcare with a dignity-centered approach. We're joined by guests, Judith Bravo and Christina Gomez-Mira, as they share their journey of fostering equity, trust, and connection within their clinic and community through their work in CCI’s Resilient Beginnings Network and their collaboration with Vital Village Networks. Together, they reflect on what it takes to build a more equitable, trauma-informed healthcare space—not just for patients, but also for staff. From addressing power dynamics within the clinic to deepening engagement with their rural Latino community, they share key moments of growth, learning, and challenge.


Featured guest:

  • Judith Bravo, Patient Navigator, Point Reyes and Bolinas, Petaluma Health Center
  • Christina Gomez-Mira, MD: Medical Director at Point Reyes and Bolinas, Petaluma Health Center
  • Ronda Alexander, Director of National Partnerships, NOW at Vital Village Networks

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Produced by: Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing & Center for Care Innovations

Music: Want U W/ Me (Instrumental Mix), by Akira Sora, From the Free Music Archive, CC BY 4.0

Episode Edited By: Wayfare & Resonate Recordings