Clovis Mayor Vong Mouanoutoua speaks at the new Inspire Health clinic grand opening on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. Inspire Health photo

Inspire Health Medical Group expanded its footprint in the Central Valley with its 11th office on Thursday, Nov. 20, opening a new primary care and specialty clinic in Clovis. 

Leaders of the group, which includes more than 300 physicians and 80 advanced practice providers, found the site near Shaw and Armstrong avenues a strategic choice.

“This has been a project long in the making, carefully aligned with our vision for health care in the Valley and a stronger Inspire Health,” CEO Joyce Fields-Keene said.

Ivan Gomez, an Inspire Health board member and chief and vice chair of family and community medicine at partner UCSF Fresno, said the opening fulfills a long-held goal.

“Since I became chief of medicine at Inspire, I’ve carried a vision that I’ve seen many of us share,” he said. “Today, seeing that vision finally realized is incredible.”

The new clinic is located at 2176 Shaw Ave., and was designed with space to grow in both primary and specialty care settings.

“We really were looking for a strategic place to stand up a primary-care office. We have several specialty offices, but we hadn’t had a primary care office in a number of years,” Fields-Keene said. “Dr. Gomez was very instrumental in making sure that we address primary care.”

The site opened with three primary care providers and a general surgeon — with space for additional providers and specialists as demand rises. Fields-Keene said the building’s size and location were ideal and hopes the clinic’s location — in a fast-growing part of Clovis — will remove barriers residents experience when seeking primary care.

The expansion also builds on Inspire Health’s longstanding partnership with UCSF Fresno, which supplies a large number of specialists to the group through its residency and fellowship programs.

More time practicing in the community is beneficial to all.

 

“We train the next generation of UCSF’s residents and fellows,” Fields-Keene said. “They really are cutting edge. With endocrine and some of those other practice specialties, it would really be nice to have availability come in a couple half-days a week. We’re really trying to put care into this community.”

Inspire Health was launched by a UCSF-trained physician who came to the Valley to expand health care and training in the region.

“At the time it was a county program and really needed to be aligned,” Fields-Keene said. “San Francisco wanted to make a footprint in the Valley and they’ve really made some commitments in the past 40 years.”

Clovis Mayor Vong Mouanoutoua said the new clinic represents a promise delivered.

“I saw the plans for these buildings, I want to say, 18, 20 years ago,” he said. “To see it finally filled — how exciting it is.”

The new location is accepting patients and is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.