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North Side Christian Health Center at Northview — Pittsburgh, PA

North Side Christian Health Center at Northview is a community health center clinic at 525 Mount Pleasant Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15214, open 32 hours a week. The typical Pennsylvania clinic is open 44 hours a week. It is run by North Side Christian Health Center, which serves 3,607 patients across 2 clinic locations.

Address: 525 Mount Pleasant Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15214 · Directions
Phone: (412) 322-7500
Website: www.nschc.org
Weekly hours: 32 (Pennsylvania clinic median: 44)
Operated by: North Side Christian Health Center (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 North Side Christian Health Center at Northview 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 North Side Christian Health Center patients, 12% are uninsured, 48% have Medicaid or CHIP, 9% have Medicare and 31% have private insurance. Call (412) 322-7500 to book and ask about your plan. How sliding-fee pricing works.

Care and screenings at North Side Christian Health Center

Patients came to North Side Christian 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	920	patients had dental exams
Mental health care	921	patients treated for depression or anxiety
Well-child visits	596	children had checkups
Flu shots	404	patients vaccinated
Cervical cancer screening	70	patients tested
Breast cancer screening	225	patients screened
Family planning	81	patients served
Diabetes care	458	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	759	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	276	patients with asthma
HIV testing	215	patients tested
Hepatitis C testing	198	patients tested
Childhood lead tests	83	children tested

North Side Christian Health Center also provides care by telehealth.

Who North Side Christian Health Center serves

3,607 patients used North Side Christian Health Center in 2025. 61% live at or below the poverty line and 91% are at or below twice the poverty line. 165 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	61%	69%	65%	−7 pts
Patients at or below 200% of the poverty line	91%	91%	92%	−1 pts

Measure	This center	PA median	U.S. median	vs PA
Uninsured patients	12%	13%	14%	−2 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	48%	41%	42%	+6 pts
Medicare patients	9%	12%	11%	−3 pts
Privately insured patients	31%	23%	24%	+9 pts

Quality of care at North Side Christian Health Center

North Side Christian Health Center is at or above the Pennsylvania median on 2 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	47%	69%	68%	−22 pts
Women 52–74 screened for breast cancer	45%	52%	54%	−7 pts
Women 24–64 screened for cervical cancer	38%	49%	54%	−11 pts
Adults 46–75 screened for colorectal cancer	46%	43%	44%	+3 pts
Patients 12+ screened for depression	73%	77%	77%	−4 pts
Adults assessed for tobacco use	25%	82%	86%	−58 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	87%	80%	79%	+7 pts

Staffing at North Side Christian Health Center

The health center employs 37 full-time-equivalent staff, including 3 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives, 3 dental staff and 4 mental health staff. That is 1,093 patients per clinical provider against the Pennsylvania median of 998 and the U.S. median of 930. Patients made 11,711 visits, about 3.2 per patient.

Patients from ZIP 15214

835 North Side Christian Health Center patients live in ZIP 15214, and 6% of them are uninsured. Other health centers also serve this ZIP:

Squirrel Hill Health Center — 105 patients from 15214
East Liberty Family Health Care Center — 97 patients from 15214
Primary Care Health Services, Inc. — 69 patients from 15214
Metro Family Practice, Inc. — 48 patients from 15214

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