About
Mission: Vecino Health Center’s mission is to make quality healthcare accessible and sustainable to the medically underserved.
Vision: We envision a Houston where no one is medically underserved.
Vecino Health Centers (aka Houston Community Health Centers) is a private nonprofit community health center serving northeast Houston (Harris County). We provide medical, dental, counseling, pediatrics, and prenatal/postnatal services through two locations — Denver Harbor Family Health Center and Airline Children & Women’s Health Center, along with six school-based sites.
A Leader in Quality Health Care: Vecino Health Centers is the proud receipient of the 2025 HRSA Gold Health Center Quality Leader badge — our fifth gold recognition.
For the past six years, we have ranked among the top 20% of health centers nationwide at gold or silver levels.
Proudly Transparent: Vecino Health Centers has earned the 2025 Platinum Seal of Transparency with @GuideStarUSA. Our partners and supporters can find in-depth information about our goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
A Federally Qualified Community Health Center (FQHC): Vecino Health Centers is a Health Center Program grantee under 42 U.S.C. 254b and a deemed Public Health Service employee under 42 U.S.C.(g)-(n).
This health center receives HHS funding and has Federal PHS deemed status with respect to certain health or health-related claims, including medical malpractice claims, for itself and its covered individuals.