TABLE 2—
Patient and Institutional Characteristics Among Federally Funded Health Centers: US Bureau of Primary Health Care Uniform Data System, 2010
| Characteristics | HC 1 (n = 28 502) | HC 2 (n = 21 877) | HC 3 (n = 117 058) | HC 4 (n = 33 722) | HC 5 (n = 15 814) | HC 6 (n = 10 816) | HC 7 (n = 42 804) | HC 8 (n = 28 912) | HC 9 (n = 12 137) |
| Patient characteristics | |||||||||
| Largest racial/ethnic minority, % | Hispanic, 62.8 | Asian, 94.1 | Hispanic, 58.3 | Black, 23.7 | Hispanic, 51.0 | Black, 32.3 | Hispanic, 80.4 | Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, 62.3 | Hispanic, 42.8 |
| Age, y, % | |||||||||
| 0–17 | 52.5 | 23.9 | 43.9 | 24.6 | 29.3 | 9.8 | 37.1 | 37.5 | 24.0 |
| ≤ 1 | 11.1 | 3.0 | 8.3 | 0.8 | 3.9 | 1.1 | 5.5 | 7.1 | 3.2 |
| ≤ 5 | 25.0 | 7.8 | 19.5 | 7.4 | 9.6 | 3.2 | 14.7 | 16.6 | 8.7 |
| 10–19 | 18.7 | 14.7 | 18.2 | 11.5 | 17.2 | 7.4 | 17.2 | 18.7 | 15.0 |
| ≥ 65 | 2.5 | 20.4 | 5.1 | 5.8 | 16.7 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 5.9 | 6.3 |
| Socioeconomic indicators, % | |||||||||
| Income ≤ 100% federal poverty levela | 77.7 | 70.3 | 80.1 | 93.0 | 61.7 | 83.9 | 90.5 | 68.9 | 61.0 |
| Uninsured | 26.4 | 37.4 | 32.3 | 45.9 | 17.1 | 69.3 | 21.1 | 12.8 | 39.2 |
| Medicaid recipient | 58.6 | 34.1 | 47.1 | 27.6 | 28.0 | 16.4 | 63.2 | 55.2 | 27.3 |
| Pregnancy, % | 5.6 | 2.1 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 4.1 | 1.9 |
| Diabetes, % | 5.5 | 9.3 | 4.9 | 12.6 | 6.4 | 7.7 | 8.2 | 7.0 | 3.7 |
| Hypertension, % | 3.4 | 21.1 | 5.4 | 12.8 | 8.3 | 20.1 | 11.1 | 8.2 | 6.0 |
| Major communicable diseases, % | 1.3 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| Symptomatic/asymptomatic HIV | 0.8 | 0.04 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.02 | 0.3 |
| Tuberculosis | 0.1 | 1.8 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.1 |
| Syphilis/other STIs | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| Hepatitis B | 0.02 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.02 |
| Hepatitis C | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Institutional characteristics | |||||||||
| Sites, No. | 2 | 4 | 23 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 1 |
| Staff/10 000 medical patients, FTEs | |||||||||
| Physicians | 7.5 | 10.5 | 6.6 | 3.1 | 5.5 | 5.2 | 7.8 | 10.0 | 5.8 |
| Nonphysician providers | 4.5 | 0.8 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 6.6 | 1.3 | 4.9 | 5.5 | 6.1 |
| Enabling service providersb | 16.0 | 15.4 | 5.2 | 2.6 | 13.5 | 8.0 | 7.2 | 11.7 | 23.5 |
| BPHC funding streams | CHC | CHC, CIP | CHC | CHC | CHC | CHC | CHC | CHC | CHC, PHPC |
| Revenue | |||||||||
| Grants,c % | 24.6 | 42.7 | 13.5 | 28.6 | 37.0 | 43.4 | 15.2 | 16.7 | 27.5 |
| Total, $ in millions | 37.3 | 30.2 | 222.5 | 22.4 | 13.9 | 7.8 | 67.2 | 52.0 | 29.6 |
| Net, $ in millions | 12.1 | 8.2 | 130.2 | 8.8 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 25.4 | 12.8 | 16.3 |
| Average patient cost, $ | |||||||||
| Medical | 568.44 | 694.13 | 597.14 | 290.36 | 466.75 | 324.53 | 683.66 | 912.78 | 586.19 |
| Total | 884.16 | 1004.18 | 788.00 | 403.39 | 839.57 | 367.06 | 974.72 | 1355.55 | 1099.89 |
Note. BPHC = Bureau of Primary Health Care; CHC = community health center; CIP = capital improvement program grants (excluding American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act); FTEs = full-time equivalents; HC = health center; PHPC = public housing primary care; STIs = sexually transmitted infections.
Source. 2010 Uniform Data System.15
Federal poverty level according to the US Department of Health and Human Services.
For example, case managers, outreach workers, interpretation staff.
BPHC grants, other federal grants, nonfederal grants and contracts, and other revenue not from services.