About
A group of institutions built around a Covenant.
Mercy Gate is the shared name for a group of related institutions: an active charity, physician practices being formed, and the written commitments that hold them together.
Origins
How it began
A physician’s decision to build something that would not fail the way the old systems did.
Mercy Gate Foundation
California 501(c)(3) — active
Mercy Gate Medical, CA and OR
Professional corporations — in formation
The Covenant
Who may practice under the name, and on what terms
Mercy Gate began as a physician’s decision. After years of practicing and leading inside large health systems, our founder came to see that the problems he kept meeting — patients turned away because they could not pay, physicians pushed out for insisting on doing the right thing, institutions comfortable with what they refused to question — were not the fault of individuals. The system itself was failing.
So he set out to build a different kind of system. Mercy Gate Foundation was formed in California and recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity. Medical corporations were set up in California and Oregon to run the practices. And a Covenant was written to define who may practice under the Mercy Gate name, and on what terms.
Today Mercy Gate is made up of Mercy Gate Foundation (active), Mercy Gate Medical in California and Oregon (being formed), and the Mercy Gate name that speaks for all of them. We are at the beginning.
Dr. Aly Mohamed (MD), Founder
Founder
Dr. Aly Mohamed (MD)
Dr. Aly Mohamed (MD) is a board-certified gastroenterologist and internal medicine physician. He completed his medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin, residency in internal medicine at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, and fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of New Mexico Hospital. Before founding Mercy Gate, he served as GI Section Chief at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Santa Cruz, where he rebuilt the department — hiring physicians, starting new programs, and setting care standards that were adopted across the organization.
Dr. Mohamed believes medicine is not just a technical practice — it is a moral one. That belief is shaped by the history of medicine itself, which includes both healing and harm. His leadership reflects it, from standing up for patients in communities with few resources to speaking publicly against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. He is one of the few physicians in the United States who has chosen to do so. He believes physicians have a professional duty to defend human dignity wherever and whenever it is under threat.
Mercy Gate is the institution he is building so that physicians who hold themselves to that standard can practice without compromise — and so that patients can find care that starts with dignity and is answerable for its results.
Governance
Leadership and governance
Mercy Gate is led by its founder. Mercy Gate Foundation is overseen by a Board of Directors, appointed under its bylaws and responsible for the Foundation’s charitable mission, its finances, and the rules that protect the Care Fund and the endowment. Advisors are brought in when their advice helps the work — on medical standards, ethics review, and the careful handling of donor gifts.
Mercy Gate holds itself to commitments that are written down: a Covenant for physicians, an ethics commitment that governs who we partner with, and rules for how AI may be used in our work. These are described on Our Ethics and shared in full with the people who join the work.
Physicians
The Covenant
Who may practice under the Mercy Gate name, and the standard they must meet.
→Partnerships
Institutional ethics
Who we work with, who we turn down, and why.
→Technology
AI governance
How AI is allowed, checked, and kept accountable in our work.
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