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Community Health Centers of Benton and Linn Counties

Community Health Centers of Benton and Linn Counties is a federally qualified community health center based in Corvallis, OR, with 6 clinic locations in 3 cities. It served 10,784 patients in 2025. Fees are on a sliding scale by income and insurance, and every patient is seen regardless of ability to pay.

10,784patients in 2025
17%uninsured patients
66%at or below the poverty line
170full-time-equivalent staff

Care offered: primary care, dental care, mental health care, substance use treatment, children’s checkups, women’s health, and telehealth.

Who Community Health Centers of Benton and Linn Counties serves

66% of patients live at or below the poverty line and 90% are at or below twice that level. 17% have no insurance, 52% have Medicaid or CHIP, 15% have Medicare and 16% have private insurance. 468 patients were experiencing homelessness. 362 were veterans.

Measure	This center	OR median	U.S. median	vs OR
Patients at or below the poverty line	66%	62%	65%	+4 pts
Patients at or below 200% of the poverty line	90%	85%	92%	+5 pts

Measure	This center	OR median	U.S. median	vs OR
Uninsured patients	17%	7%	14%	+10 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	52%	52%	42%	In line
Medicare patients	15%	16%	11%	−1 pts
Privately insured patients	16%	18%	24%	−2 pts

Care and screenings

Service	Patients	What it counts
Dental care	3,931	patients had dental exams
Mental health care	3,280	patients treated for depression or anxiety
Substance use treatment	208	patients in treatment
Well-child visits	477	children had checkups
Flu shots	1,681	patients vaccinated
Cervical cancer screening	523	patients tested
Breast cancer screening	515	patients screened
Family planning	478	patients served
Diabetes care	943	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	1,654	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	354	patients with asthma
HIV testing	686	patients tested
Hepatitis C testing	800	patients tested

Quality of care

Community Health Centers of Benton and Linn Counties is at or above the Oregon median on 4 of 7 preventive-care measures. Higher is better on every line.

Measure	This center	OR median	U.S. median	vs OR
Adults with high blood pressure under control	65%	65%	68%	In line
Women 52–74 screened for breast cancer	61%	59%	54%	+2 pts
Women 24–64 screened for cervical cancer	69%	56%	54%	+12 pts
Adults 46–75 screened for colorectal cancer	51%	44%	44%	+7 pts
Patients 12+ screened for depression	79%	73%	77%	+5 pts
Adults assessed for tobacco use	74%	84%	86%	−10 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	74%	76%	79%	−2 pts

Staffing

170 full-time-equivalent staff work at Community Health Centers of Benton and Linn Counties, including 12 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives. That is 863 patients per clinical provider, against the Oregon median of 767 and the U.S. median of 930.

Where Community Health Centers of Benton and Linn Counties patients live

ZIP code	Patients	Uninsured
97330	2,771	19%
97333	1,711	16%
97355	1,523	16%
97322	977	17%
97386	661	16%
97370	655	25%
97321	568	17%
97456	468	10%