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Neighborhood Health Centers of the Lehigh Valley

Neighborhood Health Centers of the Lehigh Valley is a federally qualified community health center based in Allentown, PA, with 5 clinic locations in 3 cities. It served 9,486 patients in 2025. Fees are on a sliding scale by income and insurance, and every patient is seen regardless of ability to pay.

9,486patients in 2025
40%uninsured patients
77%at or below the poverty line
78full-time-equivalent staff

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

Who Neighborhood Health Centers of the Lehigh Valley serves

77% of patients live at or below the poverty line and 98% are at or below twice that level. 40% have no insurance, 31% have Medicaid or CHIP, 6% have Medicare and 21% have private insurance. 300 patients were experiencing homelessness. 49 were veterans.

Measure	This center	PA median	U.S. median	vs PA
Patients at or below the poverty line	77%	69%	65%	+8 pts
Patients at or below 200% of the poverty line	98%	91%	92%	+7 pts

Measure	This center	PA median	U.S. median	vs PA
Uninsured patients	40%	13%	14%	+27 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	31%	41%	42%	−10 pts
Medicare patients	6%	12%	11%	−6 pts
Privately insured patients	21%	23%	24%	−2 pts

Care and screenings

Service	Patients	What it counts
Dental care	1,861	patients had dental exams
Mental health care	1,673	patients treated for depression or anxiety
Substance use treatment	137	patients in treatment
Well-child visits	999	children had checkups
Flu shots	691	patients vaccinated
Cervical cancer screening	1,041	patients tested
Breast cancer screening	640	patients screened
Family planning	788	patients served
Diabetes care	963	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	1,995	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	523	patients with asthma
HIV testing	418	patients tested
Hepatitis C testing	592	patients tested
Childhood lead tests	61	children tested

Quality of care

Neighborhood Health Centers of the Lehigh Valley is at or above the Pennsylvania median on 4 of 7 preventive-care measures. Higher is better on every line.

Measure	This center	PA median	U.S. median	vs PA
Adults with high blood pressure under control	63%	69%	68%	−6 pts
Women 52–74 screened for breast cancer	56%	52%	54%	+3 pts
Women 24–64 screened for cervical cancer	60%	49%	54%	+11 pts
Adults 46–75 screened for colorectal cancer	35%	43%	44%	−8 pts
Patients 12+ screened for depression	85%	77%	77%	+8 pts
Adults assessed for tobacco use	90%	82%	86%	+8 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	75%	80%	79%	−6 pts

Staffing

78 full-time-equivalent staff work at Neighborhood Health Centers of the Lehigh Valley, including 12 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives. That is 794 patients per clinical provider, against the Pennsylvania median of 998 and the U.S. median of 930.

Where Neighborhood Health Centers of the Lehigh Valley patients live

ZIP code	Patients	Uninsured
18102	2,491	43%
18042	1,614	47%
18103	1,011	45%
18015	879	23%
18109	552	36%
18018	405	28%
18017	355	26%
18104	307	49%