Texas Ahec East - Waco Region

What Texas Ahec East - Waco Region does

Texas AHEC East - Waco Region is a 501c3 non-profit health workforce development organization operating as one of eight regional centers within Texas AHEC East and as a charter member of the National AHEC Organization (NAO), which comprises 56 programs and more than 300 centers across nearly every U.S. state and DC. Headquartered at 1610 Providence Drive in Waco, Texas, and hosted by Waco Family Medicine — a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that serves as the only FQHC in McLennan and Bell counties — the organization's mission is to improve the supply, distribution, retention, and training of diverse health professionals in medically underserved areas across an 18-county Central Texas service area spanning Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson, Coryell, Ellis, Falls, Hamilton, Hill, Hood, Johnson, Lampasas, Limestone, Milam, McLennan, Navarro, Robertson, and Somervell counties.

The organization's core offerings form a layered pipeline from K-12 through practicing professionals: the AHEC Scholars program (national two-year curriculum with 40 hours of didactic and 40 hours of experiential training annually, accepting 120 students per year with emphasis on underrepresented, rural, and first-generation populations); the AHEC Junior Scholars program for CNA, PCT, and EMT certification students with a $500 Jumpstart Scholarship; the CHAMPS five-day summer healthcare camp for 25 high school students; the Future Docs pre-medical pipeline (mock interviews, personal statement workshops, college tours); a clinical placement program coordinating PA and NP student rotations across 15 Waco Family Medicine clinics; clinical preceptorships and shadowing; a Rural Health Book Club; an internship program; and accredited continuing education webinars (Mix it Up, Quiet Side of Health) for Community Health Workers and healthcare professionals. Supporting resources include the HOT Jobs employment directory and Princeton Review Test Prep services including Mock MCAT exams.

The organization does not build proprietary technology; its core technology field is explicitly marked "Not applicable." Revenue mechanics are not publicly disclosed, but the entity operates primarily through grant funding, holds a United Way Waco-McLennan County designation, and earns supplemental income through Princeton Review Test Prep. Programs are largely free to participants, with limited revenue captured from ancillary services. Go-to-market is community-led and event-driven, relying on referrals from Waco Family Medicine, Ascension Providence Hospital, McLennan Community College, UT Austin, other Texas universities, the United Way, and the national AHEC network, with outreach via the wacoahec.org website, monthly newsletters, and a calendar of community events. Governance is via an Advisory Board; no venture capital, private equity, or public ownership is indicated.

Name

Texas Ahec East - Waco Region

Legal name

Texas AHEC East - Waco Region

Website

https://wacoahec.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Texas AHEC East - Waco Region is a 501c3 non-profit health workforce development organization serving 18 Central Texas counties. Operating from Waco Family Medicine, it runs a layered K-12-to-professional pipeline — AHEC Scholars, CHAMPS, Future Docs, clinical placements at 15 clinics, and CE webinars — to address rural healthcare workforce shortages.

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akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Workforce Development and Education

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310), Technical and Trade Schools (6115), Professional and Management Development Training (611430)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Community College / Training Provider Workforce Pathways Programs (EDAAAOAO)

Keywords

• Healthcare workforce development
• Health professions education
• Clinical placement coordination
• Continuing education webinars
• Community health pipeline programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Waco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding: As a 501c3 non-profit organization, Texas AHEC East - Waco Region primarily operates through grant funding from government and institutional sources to support health profession education programs.
2. United Way Designation: The organization is a United Way Waco-McLennan County designated agency, receiving support through United Way contributions.
3. Princeton Review Test Prep: The organization offers Princeton Review Test Prep services, which may generate revenue to support operations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Texas AHEC East - Waco Region delivers a comprehensive healthcare workforce pipeline that recruits K-12 students into health careers through the CHAMPS summer camp, prepares health professions students via the AHEC Scholars and Junior Scholars programs, coordinates clinical rotations across 15 Waco Family Medicine clinics, and provides accredited continuing education webinars for practicing healthcare professionals. Programs are delivered free of charge to participants and funded primarily through grants and United Way contributions.

Product overview

Texas AHEC East - Waco Region operates as a healthcare education nonprofit offering a comprehensive suite of pipeline programs and professional development services. The core offerings include the AHEC Scholars Program (a two-year national program with 40 hours didactic and 40 hours experiential training annually), AHEC Junior Scholars Program for certification students, CHAMPS summer healthcare camp, and Future Docs medical school preparation. Supporting services include Clinical Placements at Waco Family Medicine clinics, Continuing Education Webinars with CEU accreditation, Princeton Review Test Prep with mock MCAT exams, Rural Health Book Club, and the HOT Jobs Directory. These programs work together to address healthcare workforce shortages in the 18-county service area by recruiting, training, and retaining diverse health professionals for rural and underserved communities.

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Products and services

• AHEC Scholars Program A national two-year program for health professions students that provides 40 hours of didactic training and 40 hours of experiential training annually, focused on eight core topics including interprofessional education, practice transformation, behavioral health integration, and social determinants of health. Includes potential annual stipends upon hour completion.
• AHEC Junior Scholars Program A Waco-based one or two-year program for students enrolled in CNA, PCT, or EMT certification programs that provides support for passing certification exams and includes eligibility for a $500 Jumpstart Scholarship and healthcare starter kit upon hours completion.
• CHAMPS (Careers in Health and Medicine Program) A FREE five-day healthcare summer camp for rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors that provides hands-on learning experiences and exposure to real healthcare environments, hosted at Ascension Providence Hospital in partnership with Waco AHEC and Waco Family Medicine.
• Future Docs Program A pipeline program for students preparing for medical school, offering mock interview events, personal statement workshops, and college tours to support medical school admissions preparation.
• Clinical Placement Program Clinical rotation placements for healthcare students with preceptors at 15 Waco Family Medicine clinics, placing Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner students during fall, spring, or summer semesters.
• Continuing Education Webinars Accredited CEU webinars for Community Health Workers (CHWs) and healthcare professionals, including the 'Mix it Up' intersectional health series and 'Quiet Side of Health' covering topics such as maternal health, disability advocacy, harm reduction, and end-of-life care.
• Princeton Review Test Prep Test preparation services including Mock MCAT exams that simulate official test-day conditions, ID checks, palm scanning simulation, and timed section practice for medical school admission preparation.
• Rural Health Book Club A book club focused on rural health topics where scholars can earn experiential hours by reading books and attending discussion sessions on healthcare-related literature.
• Internship Program Internship opportunities for students seeking healthcare experience and workforce development in medically underserved areas.
• HOT Jobs Directory A job directory connecting healthcare professionals with employment opportunities in the Waco region and surrounding medically underserved areas.
• Clinical Precepting and Shadowing Opportunities for students to shadow healthcare professionals and complete preceptorship rotations with experienced preceptors at Waco Family Medicine clinics.
• Clinical Training and Onboarding Required training modules for clinical rotation students including HIPAA, compliance, human trafficking, child abuse screening, and cultural responsiveness training with required 100% passing scores.

Quantifiable outcome

• 120 students accepted annually into AHEC Scholars program
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• National AHEC Organization (NAO)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTexas AHEC East - Waco Region is a Charter member of the National AHEC Organization (NAO), which is now comprised of 56 AHEC programs and more than 300 centers operating in almost every state and the District of Columbia. NAO supports and advances the AHEC network in improving the health of individuals and communities by transforming health care through education.
• Waco Family MedicinecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTexas AHEC East - Waco Region is hosted by Waco Family Medicine, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and the only FQHC in McLennan and Bell counties. The organization provides clinical training sites across 15 Waco Family Medicine clinics and recruits preceptors through this partnership.
• University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTexas AHEC East program office is located in Galveston, Texas on the campus of the University of Texas Medical Branch. UTMB hosts the TAE central program office where applications and stipends for AHEC Scholars are submitted and processed.
• United Way Waco-McLennan CountymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTexas AHEC East - Waco Region is a United Way Waco-McLennan County designated agency, receiving support through United Way contributions for community health programs.
• Ascension Providence HospitalmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAscension Providence Hospital partners with Waco AHEC to host the annual CHAMPS Summer Camp. The five-day healthcare camp for high school students is hosted at Ascension Providence Hospital facilities.
• McLennan Community College (MCC)majorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMcLennan Community College partners with Waco AHEC for EMT program information sessions, simulations, and anatomy & physiology lab experiences for CHAMPS Scholars students.
• Princeton ReviewminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWaco AHEC offers Princeton Review Test Prep services to students, providing test preparation resources as part of their health career pipeline programs.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Major national health philanthropy funding rural health, health equity, and health workforce programs; provides both potential grant funding and a competitive benchmark for outcome measurement and health equity framing used by AHEC regional centers.
• HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce: Federal agency funding the AHEC network and broader health workforce pipeline programs; functions as both a primary funder and a strategic stakeholder whose policy decisions directly shape AHEC regional centers' programmatic priorities and funding continuity.
• National AHEC Organization (NAO): National umbrella organization of which Texas AHEC East - Waco Region is a Charter member; coordinates 56 AHEC programs and 300+ centers nationwide and provides policy advocacy, programmatic standards, and federal funding relationships that directly affect the Waco region's operating context.

Direct peers

• Waco Family Medicine: Host organization and Federally Qualified Health Center that provides the 15 clinical training sites, preceptors, and operational housing for Texas AHEC East - Waco Region; the FQHC's family medicine residency is a foundational clinical training pipeline feeding AHEC programs.
• Texas AHEC East: Direct parent organization of which Waco AHEC is 1 of 8 regional centers; hosts the program office at UTMB Galveston and centralizes AHEC Scholars applications and stipend processing, making it the closest operational peer in scale and structure.

Emerging players

• Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation: Foundation dedicated to improving health professions education through grants and convenings; complements AHEC's workforce development mission with national-level grants, interprofessional education frameworks, and conference programming relevant to AHEC Scholars competencies.
• National Medical Fellowships: Nonprofit providing scholarships and support to underrepresented minority medical students; targets a similar demographic (first-generation, underrepresented, underserved-background students) and addresses a parallel stage of the health workforce pipeline, making it a thematic peer for AHEC Scholars and Future Docs.

Regional players

• Area Health Education Centers of New York (NY AHEC): Comparable state-level AHEC system serving New York with a similar multi-county, multi-program workforce pipeline model; useful operational and curriculum-design comparator for the Waco region's Scholar and continuing education programs.
• North Carolina AHEC: One of the most established state AHEC systems in the U.S.; operates a comparable multi-region health workforce pipeline model with K-12 through professional CEU programming, serving as a useful operational and outcome-measurement benchmark for Texas AHEC East - Waco Region.

Others

• Ascension Providence Hospital: Hospital partner that hosts the CHAMPS summer camp and likely provides additional clinical placement capacity in the Waco area; an ecosystem partner rather than direct competitor, but functionally adjacent in delivering health careers exposure and clinical training.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/WacoAHEC
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wacoahec

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

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