Santa Cruz Community Health (SCCH) today announced Dr. John Bergren, a board-certified family medicine physician, will join the staff of Santa Cruz Mountain Health Center in Ben Lomond this summer.
Dr. Bergren, a longtime San Lorenzo Valley resident and medical provider spent the last 10 years as a physician with Dignity Health’s Boulder Creek Clinic until its recent closure. Throughout his 30-year career, Dr. Bergren has been interested in working with underserved rural populations with the bulk of it spent working in a small island community in Southeast Alaska, where he and his wife raised their two daughters. He enjoyed two sabbatical years in even farther-flung, remote places including South Africa and Antarctica. In 2012 Dr. Bergren and his family moved back to “civilization,” where he joined Dignity Health’s Boulder Creek. Read more.