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Health Opportunities for the People of East Texas, Inc.

Health Opportunities for the People of East Texas, Inc. is a federally qualified community health center based in Center, TX, with 9 clinic locations in 7 cities. It served 10,618 patients in 2025. Fees are on a sliding scale by income and insurance, and every patient is seen regardless of ability to pay.

10,618patients in 2025
30%uninsured patients
85%at or below the poverty line
67full-time-equivalent staff

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

Who Health Opportunities for the People of East Texas, Inc. serves

85% of patients live at or below the poverty line and 98% are at or below twice that level. 30% have no insurance, 24% have Medicaid or CHIP, 13% have Medicare and 34% have private insurance. 97 patients were experiencing homelessness. 106 were veterans.

Measure	This center	TX median	U.S. median	vs TX
Patients at or below the poverty line	85%	65%	65%	+20 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	30%	32%	14%	−2 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	24%	23%	42%	In line
Medicare patients	13%	9%	11%	+4 pts
Privately insured patients	34%	30%	24%	+3 pts

Care and screenings

Service	Patients	What it counts
Mental health care	2,048	patients treated for depression or anxiety
Well-child visits	941	children had checkups
Flu shots	748	patients vaccinated
Cervical cancer screening	286	patients tested
Breast cancer screening	609	patients screened
Family planning	305	patients served
Diabetes care	1,520	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	2,549	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	346	patients with asthma
HIV testing	1,047	patients tested
Hepatitis C testing	421	patients tested
Childhood lead tests	86	children tested

Quality of care

Health Opportunities for the People of East Texas, Inc. is at or above the Texas median on 0 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	56%	67%	68%	−11 pts
Women 52–74 screened for breast cancer	33%	48%	54%	−15 pts
Women 24–64 screened for cervical cancer	27%	54%	54%	−26 pts
Adults 46–75 screened for colorectal cancer	22%	40%	44%	−17 pts
Patients 12+ screened for depression	63%	80%	77%	−17 pts
Adults assessed for tobacco use	85%	89%	86%	−4 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	68%	81%	79%	−13 pts

Staffing

67 full-time-equivalent staff work at Health Opportunities for the People of East Texas, Inc., including 10 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives. That is 1,101 patients per clinical provider, against the Texas median of 1,028 and the U.S. median of 930.

Where Health Opportunities for the People of East Texas, Inc. patients live

ZIP code	Patients	Uninsured
75935	2,939	35%
75972	1,511	20%
75633	1,189	41%
75974	852	33%
75954	767	23%
75973	578	29%
75785	565	12%
75975	214	33%