Chiricahua Community Health Centers Inc.

Chiricahua Community Health Centers Inc., doing business as Bisbee Hospital Association, is a tax-exempt nonprofit healthcare organization based in Elfrida, Arizona, that operates as a federal grant recipient providing primary care, behavioral health, dental, and substance-use-disorder services to rural Cochise County. The organization competes exclusively under federal grant programs rather than federal contracts; it holds no prime federal contracts and does not sit on contract vehicles. Chiricahua functions as both a direct recipient of federal health grants and as a subrecipient on awards from state and regional health partnerships.

Chiricahua's capability portfolio centers on federally qualified health center (FQHC) operations serving medically underserved rural populations. The organization provided health services to over 33,500 individuals in more than 132,000 visits in 2023, operating across multiple clinical sites and mobile clinics in Cochise County. Recent prime grant work includes a $1 million Rural Communities Opioid Response Program — Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Access award from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (award date Sep 1, 2023, completion Aug 31, 2026) to create two new MAT access points in the county; a $789,000 congressionally directed spending award from the Healthcare Systems Bureau (Sep 30, 2024, completion Sep 29, 2027) for construction of the Willcox Family Health Center; a $600,000 Fiscal Year 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion award from the Bureau of Primary Health Care (Sep 1, 2024, completion Aug 31, 2025) to expand mental health and substance-use-disorder services; and a $983,265 congressionally directed spending award from the Healthcare Systems Bureau (Sep 30, 2023, completion Sep 29, 2026) for purchase of a mobile mammography clinic. Chiricahua also holds a Community Project Grant from the Rural Utilities Service (Jul 16, 2025, completion Jul 16, 2027) and a Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program award from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Mar 1, 2024, completion Feb 29, 2028).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of Health and Human Services, which accounts for 68% of recent awards across its Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention divisions. Chiricahua's subrecipient footprint includes work under Arizona Association of Community Health Centers (Connecting Kids to Coverage enrollment and Medicaid/CHIP enrollment cooperative agreements), Arizona Family Health Partnership (Title X family planning services), University of Arizona (community-based participatory research on vaccine uptake), and Arizona Department of Health Services (breast, cervical, and cardiovascular screening programs). Over the past five years, award activity grew from three awards in 2022 to nine in 2025, with two awards recorded in 2026. Three awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, generating modest recompete exposure. Combined dollars obligated across all recent awards total $257.1 million.