A new Integrated Care Center (ICC) officially opened its doors this week at the corner of Mission St. and South Van Ness Ave.

The first of its kind in the entire state, the new facility is the latest addition for HealthRIGHT 360, which provides medical, mental and emotional support and services for the city's most vulnerable residents.

The center has five floors, each dedicated to various health services, including a pharmacy, a medical and dental clinic, a resource center, and administrative offices. For clients who seeking new jobs, there's even a room with donated business attire.

Besides health care, ICC offers classes in computer literacy, housing and employment, as well as courses from Five Keys Adult Charter School, a group that "provides traditionally underserved communities the opportunity to restart their education."

The facility is funded through a combination of money from private donors, the New Markets Tax Credit Program, and a capital campaign that's currently raised $6 million. 

Located in a former garment company office building, Dr. Vitka Eisen, the CEO of HealthRIGHT 360, said in a group interview that the group began looking for a space in 2012 and selected the site two years later.

"It's an amazing location, and we consider this to be the nexus of many communities that we serve," she said. "We're sitting at a crossroads of the Mission, SoMa, the Tenderloin and the Western Addition, and those are largely where many of our clients come from."

HealthRIGHT 360 is an organization that comprises Walden House and the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics, facilities created in the 1960s to help homeless residents and adolescents with mental health and substance abuse problems.

Eisen was a heroin user in the 1980s until she began receiving treatment from both centers. Since these groups were doing similar things on their own, she thought it would be a good idea to house them under one name. They merged in 2011, rebranding as HealthRIGHT 360 the following year.

Because of ICC's central location and the resources it provides, it fills a major gap in several communities, said Eisen. 

"It was a vision that we had—providing wholly integrated care for people so that all of the services that they need to get better and do better, are all fully integrated in one location," she said.

The ICC is open Monday to Friday from 9–5 and until 6:30pm for outpatient care services.