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Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System

Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System is a federally qualified community health center based in San Jose, CA, with 22 clinic locations in 7 cities. It served 14,294 patients in 2025. Fees are on a sliding scale by income and insurance, and every patient is seen regardless of ability to pay.

14,294patients in 2025
2%uninsured patients
57%at or below the poverty line
184full-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 Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System serves

57% of patients live at or below the poverty line and 83% are at or below twice that level. 2% have no insurance, 76% have Medicaid or CHIP, 16% have Medicare and 6% have private insurance. 14,294 patients were experiencing homelessness. 104 were veterans.

Measure	This center	CA median	U.S. median	vs CA
Patients at or below the poverty line	57%	75%	65%	−18 pts
Patients at or below 200% of the poverty line	83%	95%	92%	−12 pts

Measure	This center	CA median	U.S. median	vs CA
Uninsured patients	2%	8%	14%	−5 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	76%	71%	42%	+4 pts
Medicare patients	16%	8%	11%	+8 pts
Privately insured patients	6%	10%	24%	−4 pts

Care and screenings

Service	Patients	What it counts
Dental care	2,613	patients had dental exams
Mental health care	4,979	patients treated for depression or anxiety
Substance use treatment	1,256	patients in treatment
Eye exams	466	patients had eye exams
Well-child visits	602	children had checkups
Flu shots	3,005	patients vaccinated
Cervical cancer screening	1,290	patients tested
Breast cancer screening	2,093	patients screened
Family planning	762	patients served
Diabetes care	2,706	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	4,148	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	810	patients with asthma
HIV testing	2,395	patients tested
Hepatitis C testing	2,404	patients tested
Childhood lead tests	78	children tested

Quality of care

Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System is at or above the California median on 5 of 7 preventive-care measures. Higher is better on every line.

Measure	This center	CA median	U.S. median	vs CA
Adults with high blood pressure under control	57%	68%	68%	−11 pts
Women 52–74 screened for breast cancer	65%	59%	54%	+5 pts
Women 24–64 screened for cervical cancer	66%	60%	54%	+6 pts
Adults 46–75 screened for colorectal cancer	45%	44%	44%	+1 pts
Patients 12+ screened for depression	53%	68%	77%	−15 pts
Adults assessed for tobacco use	87%	86%	86%	+2 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	80%	79%	79%	+1 pts

Staffing

184 full-time-equivalent staff work at Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System, including 28 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives. That is 519 patients per clinical provider, against the California median of 869 and the U.S. median of 930.

Where Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System patients live

ZIP code	Patients	Uninsured
95112	1,654	2%
95111	1,058	2%
95116	838	3%
95122	829	3%
95020	612	3%
95127	610	3%
95035	491	–
95121	472	–