East-Central District Health Department
East-Central District Health Department
3806 Howard Boulevard
Columbus, NE - 68601
Telephone: (402)563-9656
WHAT WE'RE ABOUTAs a resident of their service area, you are fortunate to have a healthcare safety net available --- the Good Neighbor Community Health Center, which is a separate non-profit organization housed within the East-Central District Health Department. Community Health Centers provide affordable, accessible, quality, comprehensive dental care to the individuals they serve. The Good Neighbor Community Health Center is one of more than 1,000 Community Health Centers located nationally. As a safety net provider they target medically under served and under insured populations. They also provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services to the population they serve. The GNCHC provides family medical care, mental and dental health services. In July of 2006 they began to provide dental services in their community to include a comprehensive oral education program, dental screening, and general dentistry. These services are being provided in collaboration with the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) Dental College. Good Neighbor Community Health Center, like all health centers is held to strict federal scrutiny on the quality and cost-effectiveness of their services. This results in your community health center providing quality, comprehensive dental care to their patients at a very affordable price. In addition to federal scrutiny they have a collaborative relationship with the UNMC dental college to assure that they are using the most up to date practice standards. The mission of the Good Neighbor Community Health Center is to work in collaboration with the community to increase access to primary preventative health care in order to improve the health of the underserved and vulnerable population.
Many of our Dental Clinics are free and/or government supported. Many are sliding scale dental care for low income. Please call the dental clinics or visit the websites of the dentists to cofirm that these clinics are free or low cost to the needy. We do our best to provide a helpful low cost and free dental services. Always confirm directly with the dental clinis to confirm that our information is up to date.
We also now display low cost, affordable clinics for the needy. Yes, our website name is FreeDental.org, but we now provide more. We are as specific as possible on the listing pages. It is the website users responsibility to contact the clinics listed to confirm whether the clinics is free, low cost, affordable, etc. Do not take it for granted that the clinic is free since it is listed on the website. We provide listings to help those with dental practices and services to help the needy.