East Bay woman becomes Kaiser doctor, same provider where her family has worked

A Mexican immigrant family in the East Bay sacrificed their dream home to support their daughter's even bigger dream of going to medical school. This week, that sacrifice paid off in ways they never imagined.

Bianca Silva said her father, Martin Silva has been the gardener at Kaiser's Richmond Medical Center since the 1990s. He joined about seven years after mom Leticia began her working in the pharmacy. She's now a Kaiser administrative assistant.“I had to make hard decisions. We had to give up our dream home 3 years ago when she was accepted into the medical school,” Leticia Silva said.

Bianca went pre-med at UC Irvine and went to medical school at Pacific Northwest University in Washington. During her third-year medical rotations, working in clinics in Washington and California, she often translated for patients who only spoke Spanish.

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