Berks Community Health Center

What Berks Community Health Center does

Berks Community Health Center (BCHC) is a freestanding, nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania, serving the Berks County community. Founded in 2012, the organization delivers patient-centered, affordable, high-quality primary health care with an explicit focus on accessibility for underserved populations, consistent with the federal FQHC mission under Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. BCHC operates as a community-governed safety-net provider, offering primary care on a sliding-fee scale to insured, underinsured, and uninsured patients.

The organization's operational footprint, as reflected in its 101-250 employee headcount, indicates a mid-sized community health center likely operating across one or more clinical sites in the Reading/Berks County service area. No detailed information on site count, service lines beyond primary care, technology stack, or specific clinical programs was available in the source material reviewed. The corporate website (berkschc.net) was returning a verification/loading page at the time of data collection, limiting direct extraction of service offerings, leadership, and operational details.

BCHC's business model is that of a nonprofit FQHC: revenue is generated through a mix of Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements (at FQHC-specific Prospective Payment System rates), private insurance, patient self-pay on a sliding fee schedule, federal Section 330 grants, and 340B drug pricing program savings. This funding structure is characteristic of the FQHC program and provides both sustainability and regulatory constraints on the organization's scope and pricing. No disclosed financials, board composition, leadership team, or partnerships were available in the provided data.

Name

Berks Community Health Center

Legal name

Berks Community Health Center

Website

https://berkschc.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Berks Community Health Center is a nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center founded in 2012 in Reading, PA, providing affordable primary health care to underserved populations in Berks County under the federal FQHC program.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Health Services

NAICS

Outpatient Care Centers (6214), Ambulatory Health Care Services (621)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Health Centers (FQHCs & Look-Alikes) (HLAFAGAB)

Keywords

• Federally Qualified Health Center
• Primary health care
• Community health services
• Patient-centered care
• Affordable health care

Headquarters

HQ city

Reading

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Core offering

Berks Community Health Center (BCHC) is a freestanding, non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that delivers patient-centered, affordable, high-quality primary health care services to the community. As an FQHC, it operates under federal guidelines to serve underserved populations regardless of ability to pay.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Primary Health Care Patient-centered, affordable, high-quality primary health care services offered to individuals and families in the Berks County community through a federally qualified health center model.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Others

• Community Health Center, Inc. A Connecticut-based national FQHC exemplar with Weitzman Institute research arm and broad primary care footprint. Comparable to BCHC as a federally qualified community health center, representing the upper-bound scale and sophistication of the FQHC operating model.

Direct peers

• Hamilton Health Center: A non-profit FQHC in Harrisburg, PA providing primary care, dental, and pharmacy services. Comparable as a Pennsylvania-headquartered FQHC of broadly similar scale to BCHC, serving an urban underserved catchment.
• Lowell Community Health Center: A Massachusetts-based non-profit FQHC serving a diverse urban underserved population with primary care and integrated services. Comparable to BCHC as a similarly scaled community health center anchored in a single urban catchment.
• Chase Brexton Health Care: A multi-site non-profit FQHC in Maryland providing primary care, behavioral health, and pharmacy. Comparable to BCHC as a mid-size community health center with a similar service mix and patient population profile.
• HealthNet: A large Indianapolis-based non-profit FQHC network providing primary care and support services. Comparable to BCHC as a community health center serving a similar patient demographic and operating on a similar FQHC reimbursement model.
• Greater Philadelphia Health Action: A large non-profit FQHC network serving the Philadelphia metro with primary care, dental, and behavioral health. Directly comparable to BCHC as a Pennsylvania FQHC delivering multi-site community-based primary care to underserved populations.
• Neighborhood Health Centers of the Lehigh Valley: A Pennsylvania-based non-profit FQHC operating multiple primary care sites in the Lehigh Valley. Directly comparable to BCHC as a similarly sized, mission-driven community health center serving an urban Pennsylvania Medicaid population.
• Whittier Street Health Center: A Boston-based non-profit FQHC focused on primary care and chronic disease management in an underserved urban community. Comparable to BCHC as a mission-aligned FQHC of broadly similar scale with comparable service scope.

Broad incumbents

• Sun River Health: One of the largest non-profit FQHC networks in the Northeast, operating 40+ sites across New York. Comparable to BCHC as a FQHC operating under the same federal framework, but at materially greater scale, representing an upper-bound benchmark for multi-site expansion.
• Erie Family Health Centers: A Chicago-area non-profit FQHC network providing primary care, dental, and behavioral health across multiple sites. Comparable to BCHC as a community health center with a similar service portfolio, but operating at significantly greater scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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