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Rachel Gonzales-Hanson

We want our students to become interested in health careers, go off to college to become professionals, then come back to Uvalde.


Community Health Leaders
1995

Area(s) of expertise:
Farmworker health
Primary care
Rural health

Leader’s Biography 1995:
Chief Executive Officer, Community Health Development, Inc. (Uvalde County Clinic), Uvalde, TX
Gonzales-Hanson started as an administrative assistant for Uvalde’s health clinic when it was housed in a trailer. Two years later, she became executive director. Gonzales-Hanson recruited family doctors and much-needed pharmaceutical services to what is now a federally-qualified health center in this isolated, poor, predominantly Hispanic farming and ranch community.

Where this Leader can be reached today:
Chief Executive Officer
Community Health Development, Inc.
201 South Evans
Uvalde, TX 78801
Phone: (830) 278-5604
Email: raghanson.chdi@tachc.org

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