Open Door was founded in 1971, with a vision of providing high quality health care and health education to a rural, underserved part of California, at a time when the region suffered from a shortage of access to health care services. Open Door was born from the efforts of local community leaders and volunteers in Arcata. The first clinic—the Humboldt Open Door Clinic—operated on the site of a former bank, until it could afford to move to a larger location. Open Door now has over 700 employees and operates a network of thirteen community health centers and clinics—across an area larger than the state of Connecticut—serving over 60,000 of our “friends, family, and neighbors.” Fifty years on, Open Door has grown and changed, but its mission remains the same—to provide “quality medical, dental, and behavioral health services, and education to all, regardless of financial, geographic, or social barriers.”