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Tafunsak Community Health Center — Kosrae, FM

Tafunsak Community Health Center is a community health center clinic at BMC Compound, Airport Road, Kosrae, FM 96944, open 40 hours a week. That matches the 40-hour week of a typical Federated States of Micronesia clinic. It is run by Kosrae Community Health Center, which serves 1,969 patients across 2 clinic locations.

Address: BMC Compound, Airport Road, Kosrae, FM 96944 · Directions
Phone: (691) 370-2284
Website: www.kosraechc.org
Weekly hours: 40 (Federated States of Micronesia clinic median: 40)
Operated by: Kosrae Community Health Center (federally qualified health center)
Care offered by this health center: primary care, dental care, eye exams, and children’s checkups

Fees are on a sliding scale. What you pay at Tafunsak 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 Kosrae Community Health Center patients, 73% are uninsured, 0% have Medicaid or CHIP, 0% have Medicare and 0% have private insurance. Call (691) 370-2284 to book and ask about your plan. How sliding-fee pricing works.

Care and screenings at Kosrae Community Health Center

Patients came to Kosrae 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	676	patients had dental exams
Eye exams	67	patients had eye exams
Well-child visits	287	children had checkups
Diabetes care	349	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	287	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	29	patients with asthma

Who Kosrae Community Health Center serves

1,969 patients used Kosrae Community Health Center in 2025. 100% live at or below the poverty line and 100% are at or below twice the poverty line.

Measure	This center	FM median	U.S. median	vs FM
Patients at or below the poverty line	100%	100%	65%	In line
Patients at or below 200% of the poverty line	100%	100%	92%	In line

Measure	This center	FM median	U.S. median	vs FM
Uninsured patients	73%	74%	14%	−1 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	0%	0%	42%	In line
Medicare patients	0%	0%	11%	In line
Privately insured patients	0%	0%	24%	In line

Quality of care at Kosrae Community Health Center

Kosrae Community Health Center is at or above the Federated States of Micronesia median on 2 of 4 preventive-care measures. Higher is better on every line.

Measure	This center	FM median	U.S. median	vs FM
Adults with high blood pressure under control	60%	67%	68%	−7 pts
Patients 12+ screened for depression	73%	75%	77%	−2 pts
Adults assessed for tobacco use	86%	73%	86%	+13 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	85%	84%	79%	+1 pts

Staffing at Kosrae Community Health Center

The health center employs 28 full-time-equivalent staff, including 2 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives, 2 dental staff and 0 mental health staff. That is 985 patients per clinical provider against the Federated States of Micronesia median of 985 and the U.S. median of 930. Patients made 5,996 visits, about 3.0 per patient.

Patients from ZIP 96944

1,955 Kosrae Community Health Center patients live in ZIP 96944, and 72% of them are uninsured.

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