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A Paycheck Protection Program loan allowed Dr. Carlos Rish to keep all his staff employed despite the economic hit his practice took from COVID-19.
When Dr. Carlos Rish opened Centro Medico Latino in the early 2000s, he did so out of what he saw as a need to provide affordable care in Spanish to the growing Latino community in Charlotte.
“There was a need in Charlotte for a physician who had the facility to communicate not only verbally in Spanish, but also to understand the idiosyncrasies of the Latino community,” Rish said. “And I thought it would be a good place to do that for myself.”