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Berks Community Health Center at Oakbrook — Reading, PA

Berks Community Health Center at Oakbrook is a community health center clinic at 1040 Liggett Ave, Reading, PA 19611, open 50 hours a week. That is 6 more hours than the typical Pennsylvania clinic (44 a week). It is run by Berks Community Health Center, which serves 19,174 patients across 3 clinic locations.

Address: 1040 Liggett Ave, Reading, PA 19611 · Directions
Phone: (610) 988-4838
Website: www.berkschc.org
Weekly hours: 50 (Pennsylvania clinic median: 44)
Operated by: Berks Community Health Center (federally qualified health center)
Care offered by this health center: primary care, dental care, mental health care, substance use treatment, eye exams, children’s checkups, women’s health, and telehealth

Fees are on a sliding scale. What you pay at Berks Community Health Center at Oakbrook depends on your income and household size, and the clinic bills Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance. Care is not free, and every patient is seen regardless of ability to pay. Among Berks Community Health Center patients, 16% are uninsured, 44% have Medicaid or CHIP, 14% have Medicare and 25% have private insurance. Call (610) 988-4838 to book and ask about your plan. How sliding-fee pricing works.

Care and screenings at Berks Community Health Center

Patients came to Berks Community Health Center for these services in 2025. The numbers cover the whole health center, not only this clinic.

Service	Patients	What it counts
Dental care	2,142	patients had dental exams
Mental health care	3,406	patients treated for depression or anxiety
Substance use treatment	65	patients in treatment
Eye exams	2,355	patients had eye exams
Well-child visits	2,993	children had checkups
Flu shots	2,614	patients vaccinated
Cervical cancer screening	1,316	patients tested
Breast cancer screening	2,183	patients screened
Family planning	966	patients served
Diabetes care	3,105	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	6,113	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	1,459	patients with asthma
HIV testing	3,780	patients tested
Hepatitis C testing	3,474	patients tested
Childhood lead tests	672	children tested

Berks Community Health Center also provides care by telehealth.

Who Berks Community Health Center serves

19,174 patients used Berks Community Health Center in 2025. 87% live at or below the poverty line and 98% are at or below twice the poverty line. 227 patients were experiencing homelessness and 57 were veterans.

Measure	This center	PA median	U.S. median	vs PA
Patients at or below the poverty line	87%	69%	65%	+18 pts
Patients at or below 200% of the poverty line	98%	91%	92%	+7 pts

Measure	This center	PA median	U.S. median	vs PA
Uninsured patients	16%	13%	14%	+2 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	44%	41%	42%	+2 pts
Medicare patients	14%	12%	11%	+2 pts
Privately insured patients	25%	23%	24%	+3 pts

Quality of care at Berks Community Health Center

Berks Community Health Center is at or above the Pennsylvania median on 7 of 7 preventive-care measures. Higher is better on every line.

Measure	This center	PA median	U.S. median	vs PA
Adults with high blood pressure under control	74%	69%	68%	+5 pts
Women 52–74 screened for breast cancer	72%	52%	54%	+20 pts
Women 24–64 screened for cervical cancer	72%	49%	54%	+23 pts
Adults 46–75 screened for colorectal cancer	55%	43%	44%	+12 pts
Patients 12+ screened for depression	95%	77%	77%	+18 pts
Adults assessed for tobacco use	90%	82%	86%	+7 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	86%	80%	79%	+5 pts

Staffing at Berks Community Health Center

The health center employs 119 full-time-equivalent staff, including 17 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives, 5 dental staff and 3 mental health staff. That is 1,129 patients per clinical provider against the Pennsylvania median of 998 and the U.S. median of 930. Patients made 78,153 visits, about 4.1 per patient.

Patients from ZIP 19611

904 Berks Community Health Center patients live in ZIP 19611, and 10% of them are uninsured. Other health centers also serve this ZIP:

Community Health and Dental Care — 20 patients from 19611

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