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Hope Christian Health Center highlights mobile clinics, sliding‑fee care and behavioral health services
Summary
Steven Flores, CEO of Hope Christian Health Center, told the advisory committee the center operates three clinics and mobile units serving roughly 2,900 patient visits per month (25% mobile), provides primary and behavioral health for all ages, a discounted pharmacy and a sliding‑fee scale for uninsured patients, and invests about $67,000 monthly to help patients afford medications.
Steven Flores, CEO of Hope Christian Health Center, briefed the committee on the center's community health work and outreach in North Las Vegas. He described three clinics, mobile units, primary-care and behavioral-health services, vaccinations and sports physicals, and an in-house discounted pharmacy.
"We're a federally qualified health center, the only federally qualified health center in North Las Vegas," Flores said. He told the group the center sees roughly 2,900 patients per month (about 25% via mobile units), that 70% of patients are at or below 150% of the poverty level and that the organization invests approximately $67,000 a month to cover medications for patients who cannot afford them.
Flores explained care is available to all ages and that uninsured patients can be served via a sliding‑fee scale; the center also partners with schools and city outreach events. Committee members asked about income verification and how the sliding‑fee scale is applied; Flores said the center uses standard income documentation and that a $200 visit can be reduced to as low as $40 depending on income and dependents.
The committee thanked the presenter for describing services and resources the city can help publicize; no formal committee action was taken.
