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Sea Mar Community Health Centers

Sea Mar Community Health Centers is a federally qualified community health center based in Seattle, WA, with 71 clinic locations in 35 cities. It served 224,458 patients in 2025. Fees are on a sliding scale by income and insurance, and every patient is seen regardless of ability to pay.

224,458patients in 2025
14%uninsured patients
60%at or below the poverty line

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

Who Sea Mar Community Health Centers serves

60% of patients live at or below the poverty line and 90% are at or below twice that level. 14% have no insurance, 57% have Medicaid or CHIP, 8% have Medicare and 20% have private insurance. 8,353 patients were experiencing homelessness. 4,141 were veterans.

Measure	This center	WA median	U.S. median	vs WA
Patients at or below the poverty line	60%	56%	65%	+4 pts
Patients at or below 200% of the poverty line	90%	86%	92%	+4 pts

Measure	This center	WA median	U.S. median	vs WA
Uninsured patients	14%	13%	14%	+2 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	57%	46%	42%	+11 pts
Medicare patients	8%	11%	11%	−2 pts
Privately insured patients	20%	25%	24%	−6 pts

Care and screenings

Service	Patients	What it counts
Dental care	58,263	patients had dental exams
Mental health care	45,144	patients treated for depression or anxiety
Substance use treatment	967	patients in treatment
Eye exams	1,225	patients had eye exams
Well-child visits	24,018	children had checkups
Flu shots	19,585	patients vaccinated
Cervical cancer screening	10,588	patients tested
Breast cancer screening	11,878	patients screened
Family planning	7,308	patients served
Diabetes care	19,924	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	25,999	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	9,199	patients with asthma
HIV testing	18,244	patients tested
Hepatitis C testing	16,935	patients tested
Childhood lead tests	4,846	children tested

Quality of care

Sea Mar Community Health Centers is at or above the Washington median on 7 of 7 preventive-care measures. Higher is better on every line.

Measure	This center	WA median	U.S. median	vs WA
Adults with high blood pressure under control	75%	71%	68%	+4 pts
Women 52–74 screened for breast cancer	59%	51%	54%	+8 pts
Women 24–64 screened for cervical cancer	57%	55%	54%	+2 pts
Adults 46–75 screened for colorectal cancer	49%	42%	44%	+7 pts
Patients 12+ screened for depression	86%	70%	77%	+16 pts
Adults assessed for tobacco use	92%	84%	86%	+8 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	80%	79%	79%	+1 pts

Where Sea Mar Community Health Centers patients live

ZIP code	Patients	Uninsured
98661	6,763	13%
98168	5,232	23%
98682	5,152	13%
98003	4,407	19%
98146	4,172	21%
98273	4,047	18%
98597	4,026	3%
98198	3,887	18%

11 more locations are listed on the city pages for Washington.

Other health centers in Washington

How fees work: the sliding-fee guide.