# Valley Health Center North County, Palo Alto: a medical clinic in Palo Alto (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/palo-alto/valley-health-center-north-county-palo-alto-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 2 sources. Updated 2026-08-17. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/palo-alto/valley-health-center-north-county-palo-alto-ca ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmswnhxnb019qye99skzv9ecr%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmswnhxnb019qye99skzv9ecr%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmswnhxnb019qye99skzv9ecr%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmswnhxnb019qye99skzv9ecr%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmswnhxnb019qye99skzv9ecr%2F4.jpg) ## In short Valley Health Center North County is a medical clinic in Palo Alto, CA. Its AI Score is 31 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Medical clinic | | Address | 4151 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA | | Hours | Mon to Fri 8 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun | | Phone | (888) 334-1000 | | Medical director | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.3 across 28 reviews | | Known for | Valley Health Center North County excels in providing a user-friendly appointment scheduling experience, ensuring patients can easily access their healthcare services. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Thursday | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 18, 2026, 9:32 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 4151 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Valley Health Center North County offers walk-in urgent care services for all ages as well as convenient on-site laboratory, radiology including mammography and x-ray, and pharmacy services. Family medicine appointments are also available. Valley Health Center East North County is part of Santa Clara Valley Healthcare's network of clinics and hospitals. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Valley Health Center North County | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (888) 334-1000 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Services | Service | Family medicine | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Laboratory services | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Mammography | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Pharmacy services | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Radiology services | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Walk-in urgent care | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | X-ray | AI guess | Nothing found | | Links | Website | https://www.scvh.org/hospitals-clinics/locations/ambulatory-clinics/valley-health-center-north-county | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | ## Services and prices Services not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Known for Valley Health Center North County excels in providing a user-friendly appointment scheduling experience, ensuring patients can easily access their healthcare services. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Valley Health Center North County Address: 4151 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA. Phone: (888) 334-1000. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 16, 2026 at 8:05 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Valley Health Center North County on its Google Business Profile: "Valley Health Center North County offers walk-in urgent care services for all ages as well as convenient on-site laboratory, radiology including mammography and x-ray, and pharmacy services. Family medicine appointments are also available. Valley Health Center East North County is part of Santa Clara Valley Healthcare's network of clinics and hospitals." ### When to go Quietest day: Thursday. Busiest day: Monday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Middlefield & Montrose | Bus stop | 2 min walk | | San Antonio & Middlefield | Bus stop | 2 min walk | | MIDDLEFIELD and MONTROSE | Transit station | 3 min walk | | Cubberley Parking Lot | Parking lot | 3 min walk | | Wild Onion Bistro and Bar | American restaurant | 3 min walk | | Middlefield & Montrose | Bus stop | 3 min walk | ## Reputation 4.3 average across 28 reviews. ### What people like Nothing found ### What people do not like Nothing found ### Press No press story about Valley Health Center North County found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Valley Health Center North County Valley Health Center North County hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### Busiest day at Valley Health Center North County, anyone know? No answer yet ### pain wise, what is it like here No answer yet ### killing time on Middlefield, any ideas No answer yet ### Whereabouts is this place? No answer yet ### what time does Valley Health Center North County in Palo Alto actually open? No answer yet ### parking at Valley Health Center North County, where does everyone put the car? No answer yet ### walk in here, or is it appointment only? No answer yet ### is there a rewards thing at Valley Health Center North County No answer yet ### Valley Health Center North County or Express Care? No answer yet ### prices round here, anyone got a number No answer yet ### payment plans here, is that a thing? No answer yet ### best medical clinic in Palo Alto No answer yet ### Booking a consult at Valley Health Center North County, what happens? No answer yet ### Worth the hype at Valley Health Center North County? No answer yet ### any last minute appts at Valley Health Center North County? No answer yet ### medical staff here, or is it techs? No answer yet ### Open Saturdays here? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Valley Health Center North County We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Valley Health Center North County. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 31 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Palo Alto medical clinics run 22 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Valley Health Center North County scores 31, below the Palo Alto average of 38. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Valley Health Center North County | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 1 answer that recommended anyone. 1 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 41 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Poor | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 62 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 84 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 55 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | Not read yet | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | No reading has come back for this signal yet. | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a medical clinic When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google for a med spa, the AI does not visit each business. It reads what is already written about it: the business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp and RealSelf, news stories, licensing boards and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That is why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it is not, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that says "the nurse did half a syringe in my lips and it looks natural" is far more useful to an AI than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a medical clinic in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and matter more than any rating. This is general information, not medical advice. - Look up every injector. Doctors are listed by the California medical board, and nurses and nurse practitioners by its nursing board. Both lookups are free. - Ask who does the injections, and check that person's license. - Ask for the price per unit of Botox and per syringe of filler, not per area. - Read reviews that name a provider and a treatment. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Ask whether they dissolve filler and when they would tell you not to add more. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Valley Health Center North County if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Valley Health Center North County | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Valley Health Center North County | MedicalBusiness | #business | https://www.scvh.org/hospitals-clinics/locations/ambulatory-clinics/valley-health-center-north-county | Subject of this page | | Palo Alto, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Valley Health Center North County is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the medical clinics in Palo Alto, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best medical clinics in Palo Alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto/medical-clinic - Best businesses in Palo Alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Valley Health Center North County. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ88KoCQC7j4ARq-LrLxDnm_A (accessed Aug 16, 2026) - [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)