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Heart of Texas Community Health Center, Inc.

Heart of Texas Community Health Center, Inc. is a federally qualified community health center based in Waco, TX, with 11 clinic locations in 5 cities. It served 76,946 patients in 2025. Fees are on a sliding scale by income and insurance, and every patient is seen regardless of ability to pay.

76,946patients in 2025
23%uninsured patients
63%at or below the poverty line
587full-time-equivalent staff

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

Who Heart of Texas Community Health Center, Inc. serves

63% of patients live at or below the poverty line and 90% are at or below twice that level. 23% have no insurance, 31% have Medicaid or CHIP, 14% have Medicare and 30% have private insurance. 3,210 patients were experiencing homelessness. 1,380 were veterans.

Measure	This center	TX median	U.S. median	vs TX
Patients at or below the poverty line	63%	65%	65%	−2 pts
Patients at or below 200% of the poverty line	90%	94%	92%	−4 pts

Measure	This center	TX median	U.S. median	vs TX
Uninsured patients	23%	32%	14%	−9 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	31%	23%	42%	+8 pts
Medicare patients	14%	9%	11%	+5 pts
Privately insured patients	30%	30%	24%	In line

Care and screenings

Service	Patients	What it counts
Dental care	10,330	patients had dental exams
Mental health care	17,127	patients treated for depression or anxiety
Substance use treatment	531	patients in treatment
Well-child visits	13,946	children had checkups
Flu shots	13,484	patients vaccinated
Cervical cancer screening	5,017	patients tested
Breast cancer screening	5,903	patients screened
Family planning	5,004	patients served
Diabetes care	11,210	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	17,931	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	3,983	patients with asthma
HIV testing	9,473	patients tested
Hepatitis C testing	8,339	patients tested
Childhood lead tests	2,163	children tested

Quality of care

Heart of Texas Community Health Center, Inc. is at or above the Texas median on 2 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	63%	67%	68%	−4 pts
Women 52–74 screened for breast cancer	46%	48%	54%	−2 pts
Women 24–64 screened for cervical cancer	56%	54%	54%	+3 pts
Adults 46–75 screened for colorectal cancer	43%	40%	44%	+4 pts
Patients 12+ screened for depression	76%	80%	77%	−4 pts
Adults assessed for tobacco use	83%	89%	86%	−6 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	76%	81%	79%	−5 pts

Staffing

587 full-time-equivalent staff work at Heart of Texas Community Health Center, Inc., including 83 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives. That is 922 patients per clinical provider, against the Texas median of 1,028 and the U.S. median of 930.

Where Heart of Texas Community Health Center, Inc. patients live

ZIP code	Patients	Uninsured
76705	8,578	25%
76706	7,827	23%
76708	7,144	27%
76707	6,611	27%
76645	5,727	12%
76710	5,065	25%
76711	3,392	31%
76704	3,290	15%