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The clinic in this building on Eddy Street in San Francisco is now operated by Golden Gate Community Health

The criminal division of the Internal Revenue Service is looking into the finances of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, while the organization has brought in forensic accountants to evaluate its books.

The local nonprofit became Golden Gate Community Health on Friday, as the national Planned Parenthood organization stripped the Bay Area clinics of their affiliation, citing financial and administrative problems.

“It’s exactly the same entity with just a different name,” said Therese Wilson, interim chief executive of the new organization.

It will continue to operate its seven clinics in five Bay Area counties. Neighboring Planned Parenthood affiliates are scrambling to open new clinics in the same counties.

Agents for the criminal division of the I.R.S. interviewed a former employee of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate on Tuesday at the Oakland field office, in response to a complaint he had lodged.

That informant, who declined to be named for fear of how it might affect his future job prospects, said he raised concerns about the financial relationship between the organization and its political arm, as well as about accounting practices.

Jennifer Fong, a special agent for the I.R.S., declined to comment on whether an investigation was under way. “We don’t give specific details as to what we do to evaluate or investigate information we receive,” Fong said.

Wilson, who became interim chief executive of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate in January, said the I.R.S.’s criminal division had not contacted her. She said that in March she brought in a forensic accounting firm to evaluate the organization’s books for fiscal impropriety and malfeasance.

“There’s been no evidence to date of any of that,” she said, although she acknowledged that the accountants had found “inaccurate information.”

So far, the forensic accountants’ scrutiny has extended back only through the 2008-9 tax year, said Vincent Robinson, treasurer of the organization’s board.

On Wednesday at Planned Parenthood Golden Gate’s headquarters on Eddy Street in San Francisco, there was little evidence that the organization’s name was about to change.

The nonprofit will no longer run its one satellite health center, which had been offering limited services two days a week at Good Samaritan Family Resource Center in San Francisco, Wilson said.

Next Wednesday, Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo, an affiliate based in Concord, will begin operating a satellite health center at that location two days a week. That affiliate’s new territory will now include San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma and Mendocino Counties, said Mitzi Sales, its senior vice president for external affairs.

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte hopes to open two full-service clinics within the next year in its two new counties, San Mateo and Alameda, said Deborah Ortiz, its vice president of public affairs.

This article also appears in the Bay Area edition of The New York Times.

Correction: Due to an editing error, a previous version of this story incorrectly suggested that on a visit to Planned Parenthood Golden Gate on Wednesday, Sept. 1, the organization’s name had already changed to Golden Gate Community Health. The name changed Friday, Sept. 3.