Biography

Jim Mangia is the President and CEO of St. John’s Community Health, a network of 28 community health centers and five mobile clinics providing healthcare services to more than 144,000 individual patients who access over 540,000 patient encounters in South Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, areas with some of the highest poverty rates in the United States. St. John’s provides medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and behavioral health services to the large African American and Latino populations of Los Angeles.  Over 95% of St. John’s patients live below the federal poverty level.

Mangia has built St. John’s as an organization that not only provides health care services, but engages social determinants of health, impacts social policy, builds direct patient advocacy organizations in the communities it serves, provides direct access to health for immigrants and homeless individuals and families, fights for social justice and battles poverty.  St. John’s has a broad array of successful and targeted services and programs including: South LA’s largest street medicine project serving people experiencing homelessness; a Black infant and maternal health program which is significantly increasing birth and health outcomes for Black women and babies; school-based health centers which operate throughout Los Angeles, Compton and San Bernardino; transgender health services that include wrap around support; food distribution programs and more. 

St. John’s Community Health was the largest COVID vaccine provider in southern California, St. John’s operated 28 COVID vaccination centers at the height of the pandemic, at clinic sites, schools, parks and community colleges throughout South LA, Central and East LA, Compton, Lynwood and Inland Empire. In addition, St. John’s operated 4 mobile vaccine pop-up clinics that vaccinate people experiencing homelessness, worshippers at South LA churches, and community-based vaccinations in partnership with unions, elected officials and community-based organizations.  St. John’s vaccinated over 600,000 people during the pandemic.

Jim Mangia has grown St. John’s from a small pediatric clinic in the back building of St. John’s Episcopal Church to the largest federally-qualified-health-center in South Los Angeles and beyond.  St. John’s is recognized as a leader in quality accessible health care for the most vulnerable populations of southern California.