Migrant agricultural workers and day laborers in northeast San Diego voice a need for healthcare and social services to address problems including chemical rashes, sexually transmitted diseases, environmental and housing challenges.
La Maestra Family Clinic obtains a mobile office trailer and collaborates with a church with land in Pauma Valley near the fields, offering health care and education as well as amnesty services twice weekly for five years.

HeadStart moves its central headquarters to La Maestra’s campus on Fairmount Avenue. WIC also establishes a site on the campus. Ties developed with Neighborhood House, MAAC, Copley YMCA, and others result in furthering La Maestra’s Preschool program, Child and Family Literacy programs, and easing refugee and immigrant children and their families into the elementary school phase in the United States. This provides a one-stop shop service delivery system to the community and brings like-minded organizations together, greatly enhancing their respective and collective organizational missions. Alexei Ochola from MAAC joins the LMFC Board of Directors in 1996.

Kaiser Permanente awards a $1 million grant to La Maestra Family Clinic to support the construction of its state-of-the-art, Gold LEED-certified health center facility. The grant is the largest single contribution received by La Maestra from any single donor, and the largest grant given by Kaiser Permanente to a San Diego nonprofit. The contribution is celebrated by Kaiser Permanente executives from across the state, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, The California Endowment director Dr. Robert K. Ross and La Maestra’s capital campaign team.

After eight years of providing medication for the uninsured through its dispensary, La Maestra Family Clinic opens its Community Pharmacy, a culturally-competent, comprehensive retail pharmacy, at the City Heights clinic site to ensure that both insured and un-insured patients obtain the prescriptions they need and understand how to use medication, through the 340(b) Program, Share the Care and other initiatives. Prescriptions are soon delivered daily to La Maestra’s other clinic sites.

La Maestra Eye Clinic opens on Fairmount Avenue to expand access to comprehensive optometry services, particularly retinopathy screening for diabetic patients and children’s school readiness.

La Maestra Family Wellness Unit is established in City Heights to expand integrated, culturally competent mental and behavioral health services for all ages, including treatment for depressive and anxiety disorders, as well as severely mentally ill, uninsured, and low income residents, through counseling and medication management.
By 2007, the unit operates full-time and expands its Enhanced Psychosocial services at all sites. Family Wellness Unit staff trains 80 employees at medical and dental sites about how to refer patients in need of mental health services, and develops programs tailored especially for refugee populations, pregnant women, seniors and children.

Ford Motor Company donates a 15-passenger Ford Econoline Van to La Maestra as part of its Salud Sobre Ruedas (Health on Wheels) program to foster health education and to help Latinos attain much-needed transportation to healthcare clinics. The new van enables the clinic to shuttle 200 more patients per month than the aging 1991 Mazda family van on loan to the clinic from director Zara Marselian.

The first La Maestra Family Dental Clinic opens on the main clinic site in City Heights through a grant from Delta Dental.

Expanded Access to Primary Care grant funding from the State of California enables La Maestra Family Clinic to serve more uninsured and underinsured patients.
La Maestra Family Clinic expands the Fairmount Avenue clinic, renovating two additional buildings for expanded Women’s Health services.