Rooted in community Dr. Nhia Kash Vang serves both the Hmong and wider Oroville communities
By Evan Tuchinsky More stories by this author...
This article was published on 07.07.11.
Dr. Nhia Kash Vang, who works at Oroville Hospital, is Oroville’s only Hmong physician. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY TINA FLYNN Call the doctor: When not on duty at Oroville Hospital, Dr. Nhia Kash Vang sees patients at the Comprehensive Care Walk-in Clinic, 900 Oro Dam Blvd., Oroville (534-9183).
Dr. Nhia Kash Vang practices medicine in Oroville for many of the same reasons that have attracted other physicians to the North State. Locally there’s a need for doctors, and Vang fills multiple niches as a hospitalist and a family-medicine practitioner. He has personal ties to Oroville, and it’s the kind of town where he and his wife wanted to start a family.
