Gracelight Community Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

Gracelight is a new (2023-founded), community health center-based Family Medicine residency in Los Angeles, sponsored by a 125-year-old FQHC network serving 24,000 largely uninsured, Medi-Cal, and undocumented patients across five sites, with inpatient training at CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. The curriculum is explicitly grounded in lifestyle/functional medicine and prevention rather than subspecialty depth, with broad continuity-clinic exposure (over 50 weeks) and elective-based "areas of concentration" (e.g., street medicine, integrative medicine, hospice/palliative care, practice management) culminating in a certificate rather than formal fellowship pipelines. There is no research infrastructure described; the program's stated value is holistic, relationship-based primary care for underserved, safety-net populations delivered by a teaching faculty drawn from community health practice. As an inaugural cohort program, it emphasizes mission alignment, community service, and breadth of life experience over academic pedigree.