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Migrant Health Center, Western Region, Inc.

Migrant Health Center, Western Region, Inc. is a federally qualified community health center based in Mayaguez, PR, with 19 clinic locations in 15 cities. It served 41,785 patients in 2025. Fees are on a sliding scale by income and insurance, and every patient is seen regardless of ability to pay.

41,785patients in 2025
10%uninsured patients
82%at or below the poverty line
576full-time-equivalent staff

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

Who Migrant Health Center, Western Region, Inc. serves

82% of patients live at or below the poverty line and 96% are at or below twice that level. 10% have no insurance, 59% have Medicaid or CHIP, 17% have Medicare and 13% have private insurance. 1,330 patients were experiencing homelessness. 208 were veterans.

Measure	This center	PR median	U.S. median	vs PR
Patients at or below the poverty line	82%	85%	65%	−4 pts
Patients at or below 200% of the poverty line	96%	97%	92%	−1 pts

Measure	This center	PR median	U.S. median	vs PR
Uninsured patients	10%	9%	14%	+2 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	59%	60%	42%	−1 pts
Medicare patients	17%	16%	11%	+1 pts
Privately insured patients	13%	14%	24%	−1 pts

Care and screenings

Service	Patients	What it counts
Dental care	9,910	patients had dental exams
Mental health care	12,182	patients treated for depression or anxiety
Substance use treatment	306	patients in treatment
Eye exams	801	patients had eye exams
Well-child visits	2,185	children had checkups
Flu shots	6,383	patients vaccinated
Cervical cancer screening	3,906	patients tested
Breast cancer screening	5,640	patients screened
Family planning	484	patients served
Diabetes care	6,317	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	11,649	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	4,115	patients with asthma
HIV testing	19,367	patients tested
Hepatitis C testing	13,337	patients tested
Childhood lead tests	1,043	children tested

Quality of care

Migrant Health Center, Western Region, Inc. is at or above the Puerto Rico median on 6 of 7 preventive-care measures. Higher is better on every line.

Measure	This center	PR median	U.S. median	vs PR
Adults with high blood pressure under control	82%	81%	68%	In line
Women 52–74 screened for breast cancer	81%	71%	54%	+9 pts
Women 24–64 screened for cervical cancer	63%	61%	54%	+1 pts
Adults 46–75 screened for colorectal cancer	70%	57%	44%	+13 pts
Patients 12+ screened for depression	90%	86%	77%	+4 pts
Adults assessed for tobacco use	92%	94%	86%	−2 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	89%	83%	79%	+6 pts

Staffing

576 full-time-equivalent staff work at Migrant Health Center, Western Region, Inc., including 45 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives. That is 934 patients per clinical provider, against the Puerto Rico median of 882 and the U.S. median of 930.

Where Migrant Health Center, Western Region, Inc. patients live

ZIP code	Patients	Uninsured
00680	8,804	9%
00685	4,586	7%
00698	3,644	9%
00667	3,101	5%
00653	2,623	6%
00670	2,618	3%
00623	2,144	15%
00606	1,846	3%