MS 694
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Collection Summary | |
| Creator: | Ortiz, Augusto, 1917-2006 |
| Collection Name: | Augusto Ortiz Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1954-2007 |
| Physical Description: | 8.3 linear feet (19 boxes) plus 1 oversize framed item (28” high x 28” wide; .1 linear feet) |
| Abstract: | Dr. Augusto Ortiz lived and worked in Arizona most of his professional life from 1953 until his death in 2006. Throughout his career as a family practitioner and educator he worked to bring health care to the poor and underserved. In his earlier years he worked in private practice in the Phoenix area primarily serving a needy Hispanic population. In 1972 Dr. Ortiz moved to Tucson and established a mobile health program based out of the University of Arizona’s Rural Health Office which provided health care to many rural and underserved areas in southeastern Arizona. Areas of particular interest to him included community oriented primary care, migrant laborer health care, health education and folk medicine including herbal folk remedies and curanderismo. This collection contains Ortiz correspondence from over a 35-year period (1969-2004) as well as documents corresponding to each of the topics mentioned above including extensive documentation relating to the Mobile Health Program. The collection also includes Dr. Ortiz’s U.S. Surgeon General Medallion. |
| Collection Number: | MS 694 |
| Language: | Materials are in English predominantly. Some in Spanish. |
| Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu |
Dr. Augusto “Gus” Ortiz was a family practitioner and educator, originally from Puerto Rico. Dr. Ortiz received his M.D. degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1949. As a doctor he first worked in Detroit and then in 1953 moved to Arizona to work at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale. In private practice in Phoenix for 17 years, he primarily served the needy Hispanic population there. He founded the inner city Neighborhood Doctors Office program, in collaboration with four major hospitals, to help solve inaccessibility problems of “notch group” patients – utilizing physician volunteers and with medical society approval. He also founded Citizens for Better Health and worked with various local organizations including the Maricopa County Community Health Network, the Comprehensive Health Planning Council of Maricopa County and Operation LEAP (Leadership and Education for the Advancement of Phoenix) to improve access to health care.
In 1972, Herbert Abrams MD recruited Dr. Ortiz to Tucson and the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Dr. Ortiz practiced in rural and urban clinics while teaching students from many health care disciplines. He established community health centers in various rural areas and initiated satellite clinics in El Río Health Center and West Pinal Family Health Center. He provided clinical services to areas where inaccessibility of care often leads to overutilization of emergency and hospital services. Working with volunteer and governmental agencies, he inspired health education programs for residents of underserved communities, pressed for legislation against pesticides and the short-handled hoe, and testified in favor of providing adequate sanitation for migrant farm workers. In collaboration with the University of Phoenix Center for Nursing Leadership, he initiated a program to train volunteers as health care assistants. A major thrust of his efforts was health promotion and disease prevention, including community education in self-care and in the political process to bring about changes in the system.
Dr. Ortiz’s three decades-long mobile health program effort provided health care to communities throughout southern Arizona as well as helping many of those communities establish permanent community health centers. Among the communities served by Dr. Ortiz and the mobile health program were Marana, Rillito, Casa Grande, Continental, Green Valley, Sahuarita, Arivaca, Three Points, Lakewood/Amado, Littletown, Helmet Peak, Tombstone and Catalina.
Other projects, initiatives and organizations relating to Dr. Ortiz’s work included a Manpower Distribution Demonstration Project, a Community Health Worker Project, the Arizona Rural Health Federation, the Southern Arizona Rural Health Initiative, the United Community Health Center, the National Health Service Corps, Community Health Action on Wheels and the Community Health Aide Program. Dr. Ortiz was also a medical educator and served as teacher, preceptor and mentor to students in many health care disciplines. Working in partnership with his wife, Martha, Dr. Ortiz dedicated his life to bringing health care to the poor and the underserved while also fighting for legislative changes what would protect health and make health care more widely available to the poor and underserved. Throughout his life Dr. Ortiz’s received various awards in recognition of his important work. On July 19, 2006 U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona awarded Dr. Ortiz the U.S. Surgeon General Medallion. Dr. Ortiz died December 16, 2006.
This collection contains Ortiz correspondence from 1969-2004 as well as documents relating to Citizens for Better Health, the Neighborhood Doctor’s Offices, the Maricopa County Community Health Network, the Comprehensive Health Planning Council of Maricopa County, Operation LEAP Leadership and Education for the Advancement of Phoenix), a Manpower Distribution Demonstration Project, a Community Health Worker Project, the Arizona Rural Health Federation, the Southern Arizona Rural Health Initiative, the United Community Health Center, the National Health Service Corps, Community Health Action on Wheels, the Community Health Aide Program, medical education and students, community oriented primary care, migrant laborer health, folk medicine and extensive documentation relating to the Mobile Health Program that Dr. Ortiz created. The collection also includes Dr. Ortiz’s U.S. Surgeon General Medallion. Formerly collection number HT 0025.
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Medicine and health care delivery in Southern Arizona/ Augusto Ortiz, M.D., May 26, 1994 ; Nancy Vuckovic, Interviewer. [Arizona Historical Society Oral History Project ; AV 0582-13.] AHSL-Tucson (Special Collections 1) WZ 70 AA7 O77M 1994.
Ortiz, Augusto. Augusto Ortiz Papers, 1954-2007 (bulk 1967-2000). MS 694, Special Collections, Arizona Health Sciences Library, Tucson, AZ.
2007 gift from Martha Ortiz (widow of Dr. Ortiz). (Accession no: 2007-03)
Further accruals are expected.
| Series 1: Correspondence 1969-2000 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1969-1970 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 1971, 1973, 1975 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | 1976 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | 1977 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | 1978 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | 1979 January-August | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | 1979 September-October | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 1979 September-October | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 1980 January-June | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | 1980 July-December | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | 1981 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | 1982 | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | 1983 | |||||||||
| 2 | 7 | 1984 January-August | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 1984 September-October | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 1984 November-December | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | 1985 January-June | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | 1985 July-December | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | 1986 January-April | |||||||||
| 3 | 6 | 1986 May-December | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | 1987 January-March | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | 1987 April-August | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | 1987 September-December | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | 1988 | |||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 1989-1991 | |||||||||
| 4 | 5 | 1992-1993 | |||||||||
| 4 | 6 | 1994-1995 | |||||||||
| 4 | 7 | 1996 | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 5 | 1 | 1997-2000 | |||||||||
| 5 | 2 | 2001-2004 | |||||||||
| 5 | 3 | Miscellaneous | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 23 | 1 | Personal correspondence, photocopies, includes Morris K. Udall, Barry Goldwater, Cesar Chavez, Andrew Nichols, Jim McNulty and John McCain 1978-1991 | |||||||||
| 23 | 2 | Special Papers, Cesar Chavez correspondence and Ortiz Community Health Center Grand Opening and Dedication program (signed by many people), photocopies 1972-1973, 2004 | |||||||||
| Series 2: Personal information 1966-2006 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 5 | 4 | Items published about Dr. Ortiz and his work 1969-1991 | |||||||||
| 5 | 5 | Items published about Dr. Ortiz and his work 1992-2006 December 18 | |||||||||
| 5 | 6 | Items published about Dr. Ortiz and his work | |||||||||
| General | |||||||||||
| Note: some originals/extra copies of items in previous folder. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | Awards 1966-1984 | |||||||||
| 6 | 2 | Awards 1991-1993 | |||||||||
| 6 | 3 | Awards 1992, 1994-2006 | |||||||||
| 6 | 4 | Biographical information | |||||||||
| 6 | 5 | Biographical information | |||||||||
| General | |||||||||||
| Note: additional copies of Establishing a Legacy. | |||||||||||
| 6 | 6 | Personal miscellany 1970-1971 | |||||||||
| 6 | 7 | Personal miscellany 1972 | |||||||||
| 6 | 8 | Personal miscellany 1978-2003 | |||||||||
| 6 | 9 | Personal miscellany-undated papers and outlines for talks | |||||||||
| 6 | 10 | Other personal miscellany | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 7 | 1 | Martha Ortiz's notes 1971-1984 | |||||||||
| 7 | 2 | Conferences--Vienna('78), London('86) 1978, 1986 | |||||||||
| 7 | 3 | Bibliographies of Ortiz-related items | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 23 | 3 | Award (Resolucion), Puerto Rico House of Representatives, photocopy 1999 | |||||||||
| Series 3: Dr. Ortiz's work in Phoenix/Maricopa County 1967-1972 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 7 | 4 | Neighborhood Doctor's Office 1967-1971 September (bulk 1971) | |||||||||
| 7 | 5 | Neighborhood Doctor's Office 1971 December | |||||||||
| 7 | 6 | Citizens Committee for Better Health 1968-1971 July | |||||||||
| 7 | 7 | Citizens Committee for Better Health 1971 August-September | |||||||||
| 7 | 8 | Citizens Committee for Better Health 1971 October-December | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | Maricopa County Community Health Network 1970 November-1971 March | |||||||||
| 8 | 2 | Maricope County Community Health Network 1971 April-December | |||||||||
| 8 | 3 | Maricopa County Community Health Network circa January-June 1972 | |||||||||
| 8 | 4 | Comprehensive Health Planning Council of Maricopa County circa June-December 1972 | |||||||||
| 8 | 5 | Comprehensive Health Planning Council of Maricopa County 1971 January-April | |||||||||
| 8 | 6 | Comprehensive Health Planning Council of Maricopa County 1971 May-August | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 1 | Comprehensive Health Planning Council of Maricopa County 1971 September-1972 February | |||||||||
| Series 4: Dr. Ortiz's work in Tucson and southeastern Arizona 1972-2000 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 2 | Marana Community Clinic 1972-1981 | |||||||||
| 9 | 3 | Manpower Distribution Demonstration Project 1974-1975 | |||||||||
| 9 | 4 | Manpower Distribution Demonstration Project 1976 | |||||||||
| 9 | 5 | Community Health Worker Project circa 1976 | |||||||||
| 9 | 6 | Arizona Rural health Federation 1976 June-1977 December | |||||||||
| 9 | 7 | Arizona Rural Health Federation 1978 January-1979 February | |||||||||
| 9 | 8 | Miscellaneous items regarding Arivaca, Benson, Bowie, El Mirage, Somerton, Tumacacori, Tubac & Carmen | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 10 | 1 | Southern Arizona Rural Health Initiative 1976 | |||||||||
| 10 | 2 | Southern Arizona Rural Health Initiative circa 1977 | |||||||||
| 10 | 3 | United Community Health Center 1983-2000 (bulk 1983-1993) | |||||||||
| 10 | 4 | National Health Service Corps 1972-1979 | |||||||||
| 10 | 5 | National Health Service Corps 1980 | |||||||||
| 10 | 6 | National Health Service Corps 1981-1990 (bulk 1981) | |||||||||
| 10 | 7 | Trichloroethylene (TCE) and Tucson 1985 | |||||||||
| 10 | 8 | Trichloroethylene (TCE) and Tucson 1990 | |||||||||
| Series 5: Mobile Health Program 1976-2002 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 11 | 1 | 1976 June-1981 July | |||||||||
| 11 | 2 | 1985 August-December | |||||||||
| 11 | 3 | 1986 January-1987 February | |||||||||
| 11 | 4 | 1987 March-June | |||||||||
| 11 | 5 | 1987 July | |||||||||
| 11 | 6 | 1987 August-December | |||||||||
| 11 | 7 | 1988 | |||||||||
| 11 | 8 | 1989 | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 12 | 1 | 1990-1991 | |||||||||
| 12 | 2 | 1992-1993 | |||||||||
| 12 | 3 | 1994-1995 | |||||||||
| 12 | 4 | 1996 | |||||||||
| 12 | 5 | 1997-2000 | |||||||||
| 12 | 6 | 2001-2002 | |||||||||
| 12 | 7 | undated | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 1 | Littletown/Sunnyside Unified School District 1987-1995 | |||||||||
| 13 | 2 | Picture Rocks and marana area 1987-1994, 1996 | |||||||||
| Series 6: Dr. Ortiz's work in other parts of Arizona 1979-1987 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 3 | 1979-1987 | |||||||||
| Series 7: Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) 1966-1988 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 4 | Community Health Needs- Target Areas (underserved populations) 1966-1975 | |||||||||
| 13 | 5 | Community Health Needs--Target Areas (underserved populations) 1977-1987 | |||||||||
| 13 | 6 | Community Health Needs Assessment Tool | |||||||||
| 13 | 7 | Community Oriented Primary Care 1985-1988 | |||||||||
| 13 | 8 | Community Oriented Primary Care bibliography | |||||||||
| Series 8: Medical education- Dr. Ortiz as teacher 1970-2002 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 13 | 9 | Correspondence relating to various programs from and to various applicants, students & former students 1971-1979 | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 14 | 1 | Correspondence relating to various programs from and to various applicants, students & former students 1980-1987 | |||||||||
| 14 | 2 | Correspondence relating to various programs from and to various applicants, students & former students 1988 | |||||||||
| 14 | 3 | Correspondence relating to various programs from and to various applicants, students & former students 1989-1990 | |||||||||
| 14 | 4 | Correspondence relating to various programs from and to various applicants, students & former students 1999-2002 | |||||||||
| 14 | 5 | Programs, curriculum materials, course information, etc. 1970-1978 | |||||||||
| 14 | 6 | Programs, curriculum materials, course information, etc. 1980-1990 | |||||||||
| 14 | 7 | Programs, curriculum materials, course information, etc. 1991-1992 | |||||||||
| 14 | 8 | Programs, curriculum materials, course information, etc. 1993 | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 15 | 1 | Programs, curriculum materials, course information, etc. undated | |||||||||
| Series 9: Migrant laborer health 1961-1990 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 15 | 2 | Migrant laborer health 1961-1985 | |||||||||
| 15 | 3 | Pesticides circa 1977 | |||||||||
| 15 | 4 | Pesticides 1980-1990 | |||||||||
| Series 10: Folk medicine/curanderismo 1954-1992 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 15 | 5 | 1983-1992 | |||||||||
| 15 | 6 | Handwritten notes undated | |||||||||
| 15 | 7 | Published items 1954, 1975-1986 | |||||||||
| 15 | 8 | Lists undated | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 16 | 1 | Wesley's Primitive Physic | |||||||||
| Series 11: University of Arizona Rural Health Office (RHO) & Arizona Area Health Education Centers (AzAHEC) 1976-2000 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 16 | 2 | Rural Health Office 1976-1980 | |||||||||
| 16 | 3 | Rural Health Office 1981-1982 | |||||||||
| 16 | 4 | Rural Health Office 1984 | |||||||||
| 16 | 5 | Rural Health Office 1985 | |||||||||
| 16 | 6 | Rural Health Office 1986 January-April | |||||||||
| 16 | 7 | Rural Health Office 1986 April-December | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 17 | 1 | Rural Health Office 1987-1989 | |||||||||
| 17 | 2 | Rural Health Office 1990-1996, 2000 | |||||||||
| 17 | 3 | Rural Health Office undated | |||||||||
| 17 | 4 | RHO Progress Report issues 1992-2000 | |||||||||
| 17 | 5 | Arcosanti Festival '77- A Celebration of Health and Healing 1976-1977 | |||||||||
| 17 | 6 | Arizona Association of Community Health Centers 1984-1986 | |||||||||
| 17 | 7 | Arizona Area Health Education Centers 1985-1989 | |||||||||
| 17 | 8 | Arizona Area Health Education Centers 1989-1990, 1996 | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 18 | 1 | Arizona Area Health Education Centers 1994 | |||||||||
| 18 | 2 | Arizona Area Health Education Centers 1991-1998, 2005 | |||||||||
| 18 | 3 | Arizona Rural Health Conference 1993, 1999-2004 | |||||||||
| Series 12: University of Arizona Department of Family and Community Medicine (FCM) | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 18 | 4 | Department of Family and Community Medicine 1971-1995 | |||||||||
| 18 | 5 | Conferences and workshops in Arizona--announcements,programs | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 20 | 1 | Ajo 1985-1986 | |||||||||
| 20 | 2 | Catalina 1978-1982 | |||||||||
| 20 | 2 | Douglas 1982-1985 | |||||||||
| 20 | 4 | El Rio Satellites 1976 | |||||||||
| 20 | 5 | Grande 1980-1981 | |||||||||
| 20 | 6 | Kayenta 1981 | |||||||||
| 20 | 7 | Mammoth 1985-1986 | |||||||||
| 20 | 8 | Maricopa (WPFHC) 1980-1981 | |||||||||
| 20 | 9 | Patagonia 1978-1980 | |||||||||
| 20 | 10 | Pueblo, Colorado-Pueblo Neighborhood Health Centers 1979-1980 | |||||||||
| 20 | 11 | Safford 1979-1980 | |||||||||
| 20 | 12 | Sahuarita High School 1983 | |||||||||
| 20 | 13 | San Pedro Valley 1983 | |||||||||
| 20 | 14 | Shiprock, New Mexico 1981 | |||||||||
| 20 | 15 | Somerton 1980-1990 | |||||||||
| 20 | 16 | Superior/Miami/Globe-West Pinal. Satellite Family Health Center (WPFHAC) 1976-1984 | |||||||||
| 20 | 17 | Three Points circa 1980 | |||||||||
| 20 | 18 | Tombstone 1978-1981 | |||||||||
| 20 | 19 | Traditional Indian Alliance 1978-1981 | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 21 | 1 | Tubac 1984-1986 | |||||||||
| 21 | 2 | El Mirage, Arizona. Clinica Adelante 1980-1981 | |||||||||
| 21 | 3 | Clifton/Morenci 1983-1985 | |||||||||
| 21 | 4-7 | United Community Health Center 1985-1995 | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 22 | 1-5 | West Pinal Family Health Center, Casa Grande 1978-1983 | |||||||||
| 22 | 6 | Yaqui Health 1979-1986 | |||||||||
| Series 13: Miscellany 1966-2000 | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 18 | 6 | Papers 1966-1983 | |||||||||
| 18 | 7 | Papers 1986-2000 | |||||||||
| 18 | 8 | Pulications 1969-1977 | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 19 | 1 | Publications 1977-1980 | |||||||||
| 19 | 2 | Publications 1981-1989 | |||||||||
| 19 | 3 | Publications 1996-2000 | |||||||||
| 19 | 4 | Arizona Advocates for Children | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 23 | 4 | Awards, Press, Programs 2007-2011 | |||||||||
| Series 14: Artifacts | |||||||||||
| shelf | |||||||||||
| XG-03 | 2007-03.01; U.S. Surgeon General medallion award 2006 July 19 | ||||||||||
| General | |||||||||||
| Note: The medal is one of four items that are mounted and framed as an ensemble. The other three items are: 1) a certificate (signed by the Surgeon General; awarded in Tucson July 19, 2006); 2) a color photograph of Dr. Ortiz; and 3) a color photograph of the U. S. Surgeon General, Richard Carmona. | |||||||||||