Top community health centers in Texas, ranked by ChatGPT answers

Places ChatGPT showed

• CommuniCare Health Centers - Kyle Clinic · 4.9★ · Medical clinic
• CommuniCare Health Centers - Luckey Ranch Clinic · 4.9★ · Medical clinic
• CommuniCare Health Centers - East Clinic · 2.5★ · Medical clinic
• HOPE Clinic-Aldine Community Health Center · 3.3★ · Medical clinic
• Health Services of North Texas Pediatrics & Family Practice Plano · 2.6★ · Medical clinic
• SBCHC - WholeLife Clinic · 5.0★ · Pediatric clinic
• Harris Health Gulfgate Health Center · 4.0★ · Medical clinic

If a family is comparing community health centers for primary care in Texas, I’d start with centers that offer adult medicine + pediatrics and then compare access, insurance, fees, and additional services rather than relying on a statewide “best” ranking.

Texas has 71 FQHCs operating more than 700 service sites, and FQHCs generally serve insured and uninsured patients, with sliding-fee discounts based on family size and income.

Texas centers worth comparing

• CommuniCare Health Centers - Kyle Clinic — Kyle
  Offers adult primary care, pediatrics, women's health, dental, behavioral health, immunizations and laboratory services, making it relevant for families wanting several services through one organization.
• CommuniCare Health Centers - Luckey Ranch Clinic — San Antonio
  Provides adult medicine, pediatrics/teen health, women's health and senior care, with additional services available through the health-center system.
• CommuniCare Health Centers - East Clinic — San Antonio
  A multiservice FQHC offering primary care across ages, plus dental, behavioral health, laboratory and pharmacy services.
• HOPE Clinic-Aldine Community Health Center — Houston
  Offers adult medicine, pediatrics and substantial women's-health/OB-GYN services, so it may be useful to compare for families wanting both children's and adult care.
• Health Services of North Texas Pediatrics & Family Practice Plano — Plano
  A family-oriented option with pediatrics, adult primary care, women's health/family planning and behavioral-health services.
• SBCHC - WholeLife Clinic — Houston
  Provides primary/preventive care, pediatrics, behavioral health, physicals, vaccinations and laboratory services.
• Harris Health Gulfgate Health Center — Houston
  Provides adult and pediatric primary care alongside services such as OB-GYN, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy/laboratory and imaging support.

These are examples to compare, not a ranking. Texas has many more FQHCs, and the most useful comparison depends heavily on where the family lives. The state and HRSA both provide locator tools for finding additional centers.

What I would compare

For each center, ask about:

• Adult + pediatric care: Can everyone in the household use the same health system?
• New-patient wait: How soon can each family member get a primary-care appointment?
• Insurance: Does it accept your particular Medicaid managed-care plan, Medicare, or private insurer?
• Uninsured/sliding scale: What would the actual visit and laboratory costs be based on household income?
• Hours: Evening, early-morning or Saturday appointments can matter considerably for families.
• Same-day/urgent visits: What happens when someone gets sick between routine appointments?
• Integrated services: Dental, behavioral health, women's health, pharmacy and lab services can reduce the need for separate providers.
• Continuity: Will the family usually see the same clinician or care team?
• Location/transportation: How practical is it to get there for routine visits?

HRSA specifically notes that community health centers are available to people with or without insurance, with charges adjusted according to income and family size.

If you tell me the Texas city or ZIP code where the family lives, I can narrow this to the nearby community health centers and make a side-by-side comparison of their primary-care services, hours, insurance/sliding-fee options, and family services.

Places ChatGPT showed

• Legacy Community Health - Montrose · 2.4★ · Medical clinic
• Legacy Community Health - Fifth Ward Lyons · 2.2★ · Medical clinic
• HOPE Clinic-Aldine Community Health Center · 3.3★ · Medical clinic
• El Centro de Corazón John S. Dunn Health Center · 3.8★ · Medical clinic
• UH Health Family Care Center · 4.1★ · Medical clinic

Yes. I found several Texas community health centers that publish their sliding-fee policy or eligibility rules online and also identify the documents patients need to apply. These are useful because you can review the requirements before contacting the clinic.

Particularly useful if you want the actual policy document

Community HealthCORE is one of the clearest examples I found: its publicly available PDF is an actual administrative procedure for its sliding-fee scale, rather than just a webpage saying that discounts exist. It specifies both income-verification documents and what happens when someone has no income documentation.

Harris County Public Health is similarly useful if you're looking in the Houston area because it gives a concrete checklist of documents before the eligibility appointment. It says its clinical/preventive services use a sliding-fee scale based on household size and income.

Houston-area centers

Some of the Houston community health centers that offer sliding-fee care include:

• Legacy Community Health - Montrose
• Legacy Community Health - Fifth Ward Lyons
• HOPE Clinic-Aldine Community Health Center
• El Centro de Corazón John S. Dunn Health Center
• UH Health Family Care Center

For HOPE Clinic, the documentation is especially explicit: its own patient-forms page provides the sliding-fee eligibility form and says to bring two IDs and proof of income.

If by "Texas community health centers" you mean FQHCs specifically, I can also compile a larger Texas-wide list—e.g. 20–30 centers—with direct links to each center's sliding-fee policy/application and the exact documents required.

Places ChatGPT showed

• Community Health Center of Lubbock · 4.2★ · Medical clinic
• East Texas Community Health Services - Sayers Street Community Clinic · 4.5★ · Medical clinic
• Gonzales Community Health Center · 2.0★ · Medical Center
• Luling Community Health Center · 4.5★ · Medical clinic
• CommuniCare Health Centers - East Clinic · 2.5★ · Medical clinic
• Legacy Community Health - Fifth Ward Lyons · 2.2★ · Medical clinic
• Texas Native Health · 4.8★ · Non-profit organization

Yes. In Texas, many organizations called “community health centers” are Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), but the terms are not interchangeable. HRSA distinguishes FQHCs from FQHC Look-Alikes, which meet the program requirements but do not receive Health Center Program funding.

For an authoritative identification, HRSA’s current data show 71 Texas Health Center Program reporting awardees for 2025. Examples include:

• Community Health Center of Lubbock — Lubbock; identified as an FQHC.
• East Texas Community Health Services - Sayers Street Community Clinic — Lufkin; FQHC.
• Gonzales Community Health Center — Gonzales; FQHC.
• Luling Community Health Center — Luling; an FQHC site within Community Health Centers of South Central Texas.
• CommuniCare Health Centers - East Clinic — San Antonio; part of an FQHC system.
• Legacy Community Health - Fifth Ward Lyons — Houston; part of Legacy Community Health, an FQHC.
• Texas Native Health — Dallas; an FQHC and Urban Indian Organization.

HRSA also publishes a Find a Health Center tool and downloadable 2025 Health Center Program awardee/site data, which are better sources if you need a complete statewide list rather than examples.

If by “identify” you mean which Texas community health centers explicitly state “FQHC” on their own websites, I can compile that list and include the organization, city, website wording, and source for each.

Places ChatGPT showed

• CommuniCare Health Centers - Kyle Clinic · 4.9★ · Medical clinic
• CommuniCare Health Centers - East Clinic · 2.5★ · Medical clinic
• MyCHN Adoue · 2.3★ · Community health centre
• Arnett Benson Medical and Dental Clinic · 4.8★ · Medical clinic
• ResourceCare Clyde · 3.0★ · Medical clinic
• ResourceCare Merkel · 4.8★ · Medical clinic
• Bastrop Community Health Center · 4.5★ · Medical clinic
• Legacy Community Health - Fifth Ward Lyons · 2.2★ · Medical clinic
• ResourceCare Healthcare Center Breckenridge · 4.8★ · Medical clinic
• Texas Native Health · 4.8★ · Non-profit organization
• CHCL West Medical and Dental Clinic · 4.5★ · Community health center
• Luling Community Health Center · 4.5★ · Medical clinic

Yes. Texas has many federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), and the Texas Department of State Health Services notes that many offer both comprehensive primary care and dental services.

Here are examples where the available information specifically indicates both primary care and dental care:

• CommuniCare Health Centers - Kyle Clinic — Kyle; primary care, pediatrics, and dental.
• CommuniCare Health Centers - East Clinic — San Antonio; primary care and on-site dental.
• MyCHN Adoue — Alvin; primary medical care, pediatrics, and dental.
• Arnett Benson Medical and Dental Clinic — Lubbock; primary medical and dental care.
• ResourceCare Clyde — Clyde; primary medical and dental care.
• ResourceCare Merkel — Merkel; primary/medical and dental care.
• Bastrop Community Health Center — Bastrop; primary care and dental.
• Legacy Community Health - Fifth Ward Lyons — Houston; primary care and dental among its services.
• ResourceCare Healthcare Center Breckenridge — Breckenridge; primary and dental care.
• Texas Native Health — Dallas; primary care and dental care.
• CHCL West Medical and Dental Clinic — Lubbock; primary medical and dental care.
• Luling Community Health Center — Luling; primary care and dental.

Another sizeable network is Community Health Centers of South Central Texas, which lists dental services at its Bastrop, Elgin, Gonzales, Luling, Seguin, and Victoria locations, alongside its broader primary-care services.

Many Texas FQHCs also serve uninsured patients and may use sliding-fee discounts based on income.

If you tell me the Texas city or ZIP code you're interested in, I can narrow this to nearby centers and give you their addresses, phone numbers, and whether they currently schedule both medical and dental appointments.

Places ChatGPT showed

• Lone Star Circle of Care at Pflugerville · 4.2★ · Medical clinic
• Lone Star Circle of Care at Harker Heights · 4.4★ · Medical clinic
• MyCHN Women and Children's · 4.9★ · Medical clinic
• MyCHN Adoue · 2.3★ · Community health centre
• SBCHC - Cy-Fair Clinic · 3.2★ · Pediatric clinic
• SBCHC - WholeLife Clinic · 5.0★ · Pediatric clinic
• SBCHC - NAM Clinic · 4.5★ · Pediatric clinic
• SBCHC - West Houston Clinic · 2.2★ · Pediatric clinic
• AccessHealth East Fort Bend · 5.0★ · Medical clinic
• AccessHealth Missouri City Clinic · 4.2★ · Medical clinic

Yes. Texas has many community health centers that provide pediatric care, and several explicitly say they are accepting new patients. The Texas DSHS says the state has 71 federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) operating more than 700 service sites; FQHCs generally serve Medicaid, CHIP, insured and uninsured patients and may offer sliding-fee discounts.

Here are some options I found with current information indicating pediatric care and new-patient access:

• Lone Star Circle of Care at Pflugerville — Pflugerville: Pediatric primary care, including well-child visits, vaccines, physicals and sick visits. The organization states that care is available without restrictions based on income, residency, employment or insurance status.
• Lone Star Circle of Care at Harker Heights — Harker Heights: Pediatric and behavioral-health services; part of the Lone Star Circle of Care community-health-center network.
• MyCHN Women & Children's — Alvin: Community health center offering pediatrics along with women's and family services.
• MyCHN Adoue — Alvin: Pediatric services include well-child visits, developmental screening, immunizations and school/sports physicals; its listing indicates online scheduling for new patients.
• SBCHC – Cy-Fair Clinic — Cypress: Community health center with pediatric care, family medicine, vaccinations, labs and behavioral health.
• SBCHC – WholeLife Clinic — Houston: Pediatric care alongside primary care, women's health and behavioral health.
• SBCHC – NAM Clinic — Houston: Family-focused community clinic with pediatric and preventive care.
• SBCHC – West Houston Clinic — Katy: Pediatric and family medicine services through a community-health-center model.
• AccessHealth East Fort Bend — Missouri City: Pediatric care, immunizations and other primary-care services.
• AccessHealth Missouri City Clinic — Missouri City: Pediatric primary care, including well visits and immunizations.
• Community Healthcare Center — Wichita Falls: Its pediatric department explicitly says it accepts new pediatric patients and offers well-child visits, immunizations, Texas Health Steps and same-day sick visits.
• CommUnityCare — Austin area: Its pediatric program explicitly states “We’re accepting new patients” and provides care from infancy through age 18 at numerous health centers.
• Community Action Corporation of South Texas (CACOST) — South Texas: Pediatric services are available in Beeville, Falfurrias, Kingsville, Mathis and Sinton, with care from birth through age 18. CACOST accepts Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare, private insurance and self-pay, with sliding-fee assistance.
• New Horizon Health Center — Brownsville/Rio Grande Valley: The center explicitly says new patients are welcome and can register for pediatrics; it provides care regardless of ability to pay and offers a sliding-fee program.
• Hope Health Ellis County: FQHC providing pediatric immunizations, well visits, sports physicals and sick visits, including care for newborns and their families.

Important: “Accepting new patients” can change by location, provider, insurance and appointment availability, so I would confirm before traveling.

If you tell me the Texas city or ZIP code you're interested in (e.g., Houston 770xx, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, etc.), I can narrow this to the closest community health centers that currently accept new pediatric patients, including phone numbers, addresses, insurance/Medicaid information and registration links.

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Places ChatGPT showed

• Legacy Community Health - Fifth Ward Lyons · 2.2★ · Medical clinic
• Avenue 360 Health and Wellness - Southwest · 2.8★ · Medical clinic
• MyCHN Adoue · 2.3★ · Community health centre
• El Centro de Corazón John S. Dunn Health Center · 3.8★ · Medical clinic

Several Texas community health centers explicitly publish both language-access assistance and patient-navigation/care-coordination services. I found these especially clear examples:

• Legacy Community Health — Houston/Southeast Texas. Legacy says its clinics have bilingual Health Navigators and Eligibility Specialists who help with Medicaid, CHIP, ACA enrollment, renewals, MyChart, and financial assistance. It also describes assistance with housing, transportation, and other resources. Legacy separately publishes that bilingual staff and interpreter services provide language access, and that patient navigation is used in areas such as maternal health and cancer care.
  Legacy Community Health - Fifth Ward Lyons

★ 2.2 · Medical clinic · Open

[Directions](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=Legacy%20Community%20Health%20-%20Fifth%20Ward%20Lyons%2C3811%20Lyons%20Ave%2C%20Houston%2C%20TX%2077020%2C%20United%20States) [Website](https://www.legacycommunityhealth.org/legacy-fifth-ward-lyons/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) [Call](tel:+1 832-548-5400)

• Avenue 360 Health & Wellness — Greater Houston. Its published supportive-services page says Community Health Workers act as cultural/language liaisons and explicitly perform patient navigation and follow-up, outreach, social support, advocacy, and referrals. Its Heights location specifically lists Translation Services, Eligibility Services, Case Management, Information & Referral, and Transportation Services. Avenue 360 also advertises bilingual English/Spanish services.
  Avenue 360 Health and Wellness - Southwest

★ 2.8 · Medical clinic · Open

[Directions](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=Avenue%20360%20Health%20and%20Wellness%20-%20Southwest%2C14095%20S%20Main%20St%2C%20Houston%2C%20TX%2077035%2C%20United%20States) [Website](https://avenue360.org/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) [Call](tel:+1 832-830-8345)

• MyCHN (Community Health Network) — Brazoria, Galveston and Harris counties. MyCHN publishes one-on-one assistance navigating Medicaid, CHIP and SNAP applications, document submission, and application-status follow-up. It explicitly offers English & Spanish assistance.
  MyCHN Adoue

★ 2.3 · Community health centre · Open

[Directions](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=MyCHN%20Adoue%2C1111%20W%20Adoue%20St%2C%20Alvin%2C%20TX%2077511%2C%20United%20States) [Website](https://my-scheduler.mychn.org/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) [Call](tel:+1 281-824-1480)

• Family Circle of Care — Tyler/East Texas. Family Circle of Care says all of its clinics have trained/certified Community Health Workers who serve as patient navigators, helping with Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, TANF, Healthy Texas Women, Marketplace coverage and connections to social-service agencies. It also explicitly says it provides services in all languages, including sign language.
• El Centro de Corazón — Houston. Public information for its Dunn Health Center describes bilingual English/Spanish access and eligibility/support services; its behavioral-health services are available in Spanish. El Centro de Corazón John S. Dunn Health Center

Texas has 71 FQHCs plus 8 FQHC Look-Alikes, with more than 700 service-delivery sites, so this isn't an exhaustive list.

If by “publish” you mean organizations whose own websites clearly document both services, rather than merely offering them in practice, the first four are the clearest matches I found.

If you're building a Texas-wide directory, I can also compile a larger table of community health centers with columns for center, city/county, languages, interpreter/translation service, patient navigation, CHWs/promotores, and source URL.

Places ChatGPT showed

• Community Healthcare Center · 2.7★ · Medical clinic
• LBU Community Clinic - Oak Cliff · 4.0★ · Community health center
• SBCHC - NAM Clinic · 4.5★ · Pediatric clinic
• CommUnityCare: South Austin Health Center · 2.3★ · Medical clinic
• Central Health Southeast Health & Wellness Center · 3.8★ · Medical Center
• Health Center-Southeast Texas - Shepherd · 5.0★ · Medical clinic
• Arlington Community Health Center · Medical Centers
• LBU Community Clinic - South Oak Cliff · 5.0★ · Community health center

Yes. In Texas, federally qualified/community health centers generally serve patients regardless of insurance status and use sliding-fee discounts based on income and family size. HRSA also says health centers must educate eligible patients about affordable insurance options and provide enrollment assistance, while continuing to serve patients who remain uninsured.

Here are examples that specifically describe insurance enrollment/eligibility help plus care options for uninsured patients:

• Community Healthcare Center — Wichita Falls. Its Outreach & Enrollment Services provide free help with Medicaid, CHIP, Health Insurance Marketplace, SNAP, TANF, and Healthy Texas Women, and the service is available even if you aren't a CHC patient.
• LBU Community Clinic - Oak Cliff — Dallas. Offers eligibility/insurance enrollment assistance alongside primary care, women's health, pediatrics, and behavioral health.
• SBCHC - NAM Clinic — Houston area. Eligibility specialists can assist with Medicaid and CHIP enrollment and other assistance programs; uninsured patients can ask about sliding-scale fees.
• CommUnityCare: South Austin Health Center — Austin. Provides primary and preventive care and has financial eligibility specialists who can help patients access income-based discounts and coverage/assistance options.
• Central Health Southeast Health & Wellness Center — Austin. Serves uninsured/underinsured Travis County residents and connects patients with local coverage and affordability programs.
• Health Center-Southeast Texas - Shepherd — Shepherd. Provides community primary care with sliding-fee affordability options for eligible uninsured patients.
• Arlington Community Health Center — Arlington. An FQHC offering primary/preventive care and affordability support for uninsured and underinsured patients.
• LBU Community Clinic - South Oak Cliff — Dallas. Provides primary care and eligibility/insurance assistance for people who need help obtaining coverage.

A particularly useful point is that being uninsured does not necessarily mean you have to wait for insurance before receiving care. HRSA requires health centers to have a sliding-fee program based on ability to pay, and patients cannot be denied health-center services simply because they cannot afford to pay. is the official directory for finding additional Texas locations by city or ZIP code.

If you give me a Texas city or ZIP code, I can narrow this to nearby centers and identify which ones explicitly offer Marketplace/Medicaid enrollment assistance, sliding-scale care, and uninsured-patient services.

Places ChatGPT showed

• Bastrop Community Health Center · 4.5★ · Medical clinic
• Luling Community Health Center · 4.5★ · Medical clinic
• Community Health Center of Lubbock · 4.2★ · Medical clinic
• Health Center of Southeast Texas - Cleveland · 1.6★ · Medical clinic
• Health Center of Southeast Texas - Dayton · 4.7★ · Community health center
• Community Health Development, Inc. - Our Health · 4.6★ · Community health center
• Texas Native Health · 4.8★ · Non-profit organization
• CommuniCare Health Centers - East Clinic · 2.5★ · Medical clinic
• Legacy Community Health - Third Ward · 4.7★ · Medical clinic
• Hope Community Medicine - Behavioral Health · 5.0★ · Mental health service

Yes. Texas has a large number of federally qualified/community health centers, and the Texas Department of State Health Services notes that many now offer mental-health and/or substance-use services in addition to primary care.

Examples that explicitly document behavioral health alongside primary care or coordinated referrals include:

• Lone Star Circle of Care — Its behavioral-health program is explicitly described as an integrated behavioral-health model, with primary-care and behavioral-health providers collaborating. Its Texas locations include Austin, Bastrop, Georgetown, Harker Heights, Killeen, Round Rock, Taylor and others.
• For example, the Collinfield site lists Behavioral Health + Family Medicine + Pediatrics at the same location.
• El Buen Samaritano lists Family Medicine + Women's Health + Behavioral Health.
• Cedar Park lists Behavioral Health + Pediatrics, while the broader organization provides primary care.
• Community Health Centers of South Central Texas — Its Bastrop and Luling community health centers list primary medical care together with mental/behavioral-health services; Bastrop also describes referrals being coordinated when specialty services aren't available on-site. Bastrop Community Health Center Luling Community Health Center
• Community Health Center of Lubbock — Lists primary medical care and behavioral-health counseling among its services, along with other specialty services and referral-based care. Community Health Center of Lubbock
• Health Center of Southeast Texas — Its Cleveland clinic lists primary care and behavioral health, including psychiatric evaluation, medication management and counseling. Its Dayton clinic specifically describes an integrated behavioral-health department and referral coordination when needs are outside its scope. Health Center of Southeast Texas - Cleveland Health Center of Southeast Texas - Dayton
• Community Health Development (CHDI) — Its Uvalde health center lists primary/preventive care together with behavioral health, psychiatry and counseling. Community Health Development, Inc. - Our Health
• Texas Native Health — The Dallas FQHC provides medical care alongside counseling/therapy and behavioral-health telehealth. Texas Native Health
• CommuniCare Health Centers — Its San Antonio East Campus is described as an FQHC providing primary care alongside on-site behavioral health and coordinated services. CommuniCare Health Centers - East Clinic
• Legacy Community Health — Houston's Third Ward location lists adult/senior primary care and behavioral health among its services. Legacy Community Health - Third Ward
• HOPE Community Medicine — Its Center, Texas behavioral-health operation is part of an FQHC and provides outpatient behavioral health, while the organization provides primary/community health care. Hope Community Medicine - Behavioral Health

Texas DSHS currently identifies 71 FQHCs and 8 FQHC look-alikes operating more than 700 service-delivery sites in the state, so the examples above are not exhaustive.

If by “list” you mean a statewide dataset of Texas community health centers whose websites specifically mention behavioral health, integrated care, or referral/care coordination, I can compile that into a table with center, city, primary-care service, behavioral-health/referral language, and source link.