"This issue brief highlights the entry into telehealth of the Open Door Community Health Centers (Open Door) based in Arcata, California, founded in 1971 to provide health services and preventive health education to residents of mostly rural Humboldt and Del Norte couinties. The successful growth of their telehealth programs from 1998 to 2009 demonstrates the many ways that CCHCs can leverage this technology to address critical health care needs of the communities they serve."

Source: California Healthcare Foundation, 2010.