New Data Show Highest Number of Health Center Patients in Nearly 60 Year History of the Program

HRSA-funded health centers are required to treat all patients regardless of ability to pay, and in 2023 more than 90 percent of health center patients had incomes less than 200 percent of the 2023 Federal Poverty Guidelines.

Health centers are now serving one in eight children across the country, more than 9.7 million patients in rural areas, over 6.4 million patients who live in or near public housing, and over 1.4 million people experiencing homelessness.

Health centers have also expanded their preventive services, screening hundreds of thousands more people for cancer and infectious diseases and caring for patients with substance use disorders.

Health centers continue to be leaders in quality of care, increasing access and improving clinical quality across the board. Quality improvements since 2020 include:

• Administering more than 4 million HIV tests;
• Treating 585,000 prenatal care patients; and
• Improving clinical quality measures for chronic conditions, including hypertension control (+8%) and depression screening (+7%).