Santa Maria is the largest city in Santa Barbara County, an agricultural powerhouse at the north end of the county built on strawberries, wine grapes, and vegetable crops. It's a young, predominantly Latino, heavily farmworking community where diabetes runs around one in ten adults — which is why diabetic foot ulcers are the wound our clinicians see most often here, frequently in patients with years of physically demanding fieldwork behind them. Our licensed physicians and nurse practitioners visit patients across the city and the surrounding valley — the residential blocks around downtown Santa Maria, the neighborhoods of Tanglewood, Country Club, and Westgate, and the adjacent community of Orcutt to the south. Santa Maria and its valley are spread across a wide agricultural plain, and for a farmworker or retiree managing a diabetic foot ulcer on a tight budget and a full work schedule, the trip to a wound clinic is exactly where care breaks down. The foot that's supposed to stay offloaded ends up bearing weight, and the appointment is the first thing skipped. Home-based visits remove that barrier. Santa Maria's medical anchor is Marian Regional Medical Center, the region's major hospital. We coordinate with its discharge planning team so patients leaving with a diabetic ulcer, surgical wound, or pressure injury transition to physician-led care at home without a gap. Wound measurements, photographs, and encounter notes go back to the discharging team and the primary care physician after each visit. Santa Maria is a strongly Spanish-speaking community, with a significant number of families who speak Mixteco and other Indigenous Mexican languages tied to the region's farmworkers. Clear communication is central to diabetic limb preservation, so our coordination team arranges interpreter support at scheduling — including for Indigenous languages when needed — so offloading instructions, dressing-change steps, and infection warning signs are understood by the patient and family. Care is typically covered under Medicare Part B, Medicare Advantage, and most commercial plans. Our coordination line at 877-545-1300 is open 24/7.
Call 877-545-1300 or request a provider to begin care. Healix360 serves Southern California and Nevada and accepts Medicare Part B and most major insurance plans.