Home › Nebraska › Columbus › East Central District Health Department/Good Neighbor Community Health Center

East Central District Health Department/Good Neighbor Community Health Center — Columbus, NE

East Central District Health Department/Good Neighbor Community Health Center is a community health center clinic at 4321 41st Ave, Columbus, NE 68601, open 42 hours a week. The typical Nebraska clinic is open 44 hours a week. It is run by East-Central District Health Department, which serves 9,371 patients across 2 clinic locations.

Address: 4321 41st Ave, Columbus, NE 68601 · Directions
Phone: (402) 562-7500
Website: www.ecdhd.com
Weekly hours: 42 (Nebraska clinic median: 44)
Operated by: East-Central District Health Department (federally qualified health center)
Care offered by this health center: primary care, dental care, mental health care, children’s checkups, women’s health, and telehealth

Fees are on a sliding scale. What you pay at East Central District Health Department/Good Neighbor Community Health Center 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 East-Central District Health Department patients, 28% are uninsured, 30% have Medicaid or CHIP, 7% have Medicare and 35% have private insurance. Call (402) 562-7500 to book and ask about your plan. How sliding-fee pricing works.

Care and screenings at East-Central District Health Department

Patients came to East-Central District Health Department for these services in 2025. The numbers cover the whole health center, not only this clinic.

Service	Patients	What it counts
Dental care	2,162	patients had dental exams
Mental health care	1,922	patients treated for depression or anxiety
Well-child visits	1,127	children had checkups
Flu shots	1,460	patients vaccinated
Cervical cancer screening	457	patients tested
Breast cancer screening	241	patients screened
Family planning	330	patients served
Diabetes care	890	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	1,472	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	173	patients with asthma
HIV testing	660	patients tested
Hepatitis C testing	321	patients tested
Childhood lead tests	203	children tested

East-Central District Health Department also provides care by telehealth.

Who East-Central District Health Department serves

9,371 patients used East-Central District Health Department in 2025. 54% live at or below the poverty line and 83% are at or below twice the poverty line. 237 patients were experiencing homelessness and 77 were veterans.

Measure	This center	NE median	U.S. median	vs NE
Patients at or below the poverty line	54%	55%	65%	−1 pts
Patients at or below 200% of the poverty line	83%	87%	92%	−4 pts

Measure	This center	NE median	U.S. median	vs NE
Uninsured patients	28%	26%	14%	+2 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	30%	40%	42%	−9 pts
Medicare patients	7%	7%	11%	In line
Privately insured patients	35%	25%	24%	+10 pts

Quality of care at East-Central District Health Department

East-Central District Health Department is at or above the Nebraska median on 3 of 7 preventive-care measures. Higher is better on every line.

Measure	This center	NE median	U.S. median	vs NE
Adults with high blood pressure under control	65%	65%	68%	In line
Women 52–74 screened for breast cancer	52%	50%	54%	+2 pts
Women 24–64 screened for cervical cancer	40%	55%	54%	−16 pts
Adults 46–75 screened for colorectal cancer	26%	36%	44%	−10 pts
Patients 12+ screened for depression	96%	96%	77%	In line
Adults assessed for tobacco use	96%	97%	86%	−1 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	88%	88%	79%	In line

Staffing at East-Central District Health Department

The health center employs 86 full-time-equivalent staff, including 8 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives, 10 dental staff and 5 mental health staff. That is 1,219 patients per clinical provider against the Nebraska median of 1,076 and the U.S. median of 930. Patients made 29,105 visits, about 3.1 per patient.

Patients from ZIP 68601

3,665 East-Central District Health Department patients live in ZIP 68601, and 23% of them are uninsured. Other health centers also serve this ZIP:

Midtown Health Center, Inc. — 103 patients from 68601
One World Community Health Centers — 39 patients from 68601

Community health centers near East Central District Health Department/Good Neighbor Community Health Center

Midtown Health Center - Madison

222 S Main St, Madison, NE 68748 · 26 mi away

39.5 hours a week · (402) 454-3304 · Run by Midtown Health Center, Inc.

More East-Central District Health Department locations

Good Neighbor Fremont Clinic Permanent Site

2740 N Clarkson St, Fremont, NE 68025

42 hours a week · (402) 721-0951

More community health centers in Columbus and across Nebraska.