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New Horizon Medical Center — Brownsville, TX

New Horizon Medical Center is a community health center clinic at 191 E Price Rd, Brownsville, TX 78521, open 47 hours a week. That is 2 more hours than the typical Texas clinic (45 a week). It is run by Brownsville Community Health Center, which serves 15,615 patients across 4 clinic locations.

Address: 191 E Price Rd, Brownsville, TX 78521 · Directions
Phone: (956) 548-7473
Weekly hours: 47 (Texas clinic median: 45)
Operated by: Brownsville 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 New Horizon Medical 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 Brownsville Community Health Center patients, 48% are uninsured, 13% have Medicaid or CHIP, 13% have Medicare and 26% have private insurance. Call (956) 548-7473 to book and ask about your plan. How sliding-fee pricing works.

Care and screenings at Brownsville Community Health Center

Patients came to Brownsville 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	1,858	patients had dental exams
Mental health care	3,255	patients treated for depression or anxiety
Substance use treatment	638	patients in treatment
Eye exams	1,446	patients had eye exams
Well-child visits	1,127	children had checkups
Flu shots	3,909	patients vaccinated
Cervical cancer screening	1,878	patients tested
Breast cancer screening	1,737	patients screened
Family planning	594	patients served
Diabetes care	4,116	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	5,071	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	555	patients with asthma
HIV testing	2,277	patients tested
Hepatitis C testing	1,797	patients tested
Childhood lead tests	145	children tested

Brownsville Community Health Center also provides care by telehealth.

Who Brownsville Community Health Center serves

15,615 patients used Brownsville Community Health Center in 2025. 76% live at or below the poverty line and 98% are at or below twice the poverty line. 3,120 patients were experiencing homelessness and 36 were veterans.

Measure	This center	TX median	U.S. median	vs TX
Patients at or below the poverty line	76%	65%	65%	+11 pts
Patients at or below 200% of the poverty line	98%	94%	92%	+4 pts

Measure	This center	TX median	U.S. median	vs TX
Uninsured patients	48%	32%	14%	+16 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	13%	23%	42%	−11 pts
Medicare patients	13%	9%	11%	+4 pts
Privately insured patients	26%	30%	24%	−4 pts

Quality of care at Brownsville Community Health Center

Brownsville Community Health Center is at or above the Texas median on 6 of 7 preventive-care measures. Higher is better on every line.

Measure	This center	TX median	U.S. median	vs TX
Adults with high blood pressure under control	81%	67%	68%	+14 pts
Women 52–74 screened for breast cancer	60%	48%	54%	+12 pts
Women 24–64 screened for cervical cancer	66%	54%	54%	+12 pts
Adults 46–75 screened for colorectal cancer	47%	40%	44%	+7 pts
Patients 12+ screened for depression	73%	80%	77%	−7 pts
Adults assessed for tobacco use	97%	89%	86%	+8 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	85%	81%	79%	+4 pts

Staffing at Brownsville Community Health Center

The health center employs 220 full-time-equivalent staff, including 22 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives, 6 dental staff and 4 mental health staff. That is 704 patients per clinical provider against the Texas median of 1,028 and the U.S. median of 930. Patients made 82,270 visits, about 5.3 per patient.