Alicia Sanchez

Alicia Juarez Sanchez was born in 1926 and was a Lafayette resident and mother of seven children.[1][2] She had lupus as a child, which left marks on her face.[3] Alicia Sanchez's daughter, Eleanor Montour, received the Boulder County Multicultural award in 2013.[4]

Clinica Campesina was founded in 1977 in the kitchen of Alicia Sanchez's wooden house[1][5] in Lafayette, CO. The clinic began taking care of pregnant migrant women workers who worked in fields nearby[6] and then cared for miners and agricultural workers. Clinica used a bedroom in the house for two exam rooms, microscope was in the kitchen, and strep cultures grew using a chicken-egg incubator given by a local farmer.[2] In its first year, Clinica Campesina cared for 500 people.[2]

Clinica Campesina eventually expanded its mission to serve the low-income Latino population near Denver.[3][5] Spanish-speaking staff gave checkups, immunizations and prescriptions.

Today the clinic is called Clinica Family Health.[7] Clinica Family Health now serves about 55,000 patients each year and operates six community-based medical clinic.[7] Clinica was part of the primary care revolution in 1998 with work on targeting diabetes and then, after 2000, the clinic redesigned its care model and became a patient-centered medical home, which focuses on continuity of care, quick access to care, and a team-based model of care.[5] In 2018, the Lafayette Clinica facility moved from its South Boulder Road location to a large, new 2-story building on South Public Road.[8][9][10]

Mi Mama, Alicia Sanchez: A Story Inspired by the Lives of Alicia Sanchez and Her Daughter Eleanor Montour is a bilingual Spanish and English book telling her story, written and illustrated by Andrea Baeza Breinbauer, Elizabeth (L.) LeNard, and Hannah Mook, in partnership with the Boulder County Latino History Project.[11] Copies were distributed to every school library in St. Vrain and Boulder Valley School Districts, funded by CU Boulder and the Boulder County Latino History Project.[11]