The clinic currently serves low-income children under the age of 19 and is only open for around 20 hours week.

Due to budget constraints, the county employees who staff the Columbia clinic are being called back to other Valley Medical locations. In their place, the city of Sunnyvale is partnering with MayView Community Health Center, which currently has clinics in Palo Alto and Mountain View.

MayView will continue the service to low-income youngsters in Columbia's two-room clinic.

As part of the MayView transition—which begins March 1—the clinic is getting a new nurse practitioner, who Kim says is trilingual in English, Spanish and Hindi and will allow the clinic to better connect with the different cultures in Sunnyvale. The Columbia Neighborhood Center has almost 250 regular patients right now, and has about 500 patient visits a year.

"Even though the patients are going to experience a change in provider, once they get to know the new nurse practitioner, the transfer will go smoothly," Kim said.

In addition to new language possibilities, MayView's assistant director Maria Solis said the clinics in Mountain View and Palo Alto are open to all ages and the directors hope to turn Columbia into a similar clinic, a goal Kim said she is excited about as well.

"We have a lot of youth served in the clinic, but their parents have no place to go," Kim said. "So this will be a great addition because the parents will be able to have themselves taken care of as well."

Solis said they also hope to expand the clinic's hours to help the community more.

"We are going to expand the hours to serve in the evenings, to make it easier for people who work to bring their children in," Solis said.

According to Assistant Director Maria Solis, MayView opened in—and began serving—Mountain View and Palo Alto 32 years ago. However, some 16 percent of the clinic's current patients are from Sunnyvale and travel to the neighboring cities for care.

MayView's mission statement: "To provide high quality primary health care to people from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds regardless of their ability to pay," is directly in line with the Columbia clinic's existing goal.

"It's basically a safety net," said Sunnyvale Communications Officer John Pilger. "It's for low income residents, and many of those who go there fall into "safety net" medical coverage providers like MediCal."

As was the case with Valley Medical, MayView is working with low-income healthcare providers like MediCal to provide its services as close to cost-free as possible.

"We're sad to see our county staff go," said Columbia Neighborhood Center Manager Linda Kim. "But I think MayView can bring a lot of new ideas and new services."