New Hanover Community Health Center

New Hanover Community Health Center receives federal grant funds awarded by the: United States Department of Health and Human Services' (ADHHS@) Health Resources and Services Administration ("HRSA") pursuant to Section 330 of the U. S. Public Health Service Act ("Section 330"), 42 U.S.C. ' 254b, to provide a full spectrum of primary and preventative health care services (including essential ancillary and enabling services) to medically underserved populations, in New Hanover and surrounding counties in Southeastern North Carolina Patients receive services regardless of the individuals or familys ability to pay. Their service is designed to cover prenatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric life cycles. In 1993, NHCHC was incorporated as a non-profit organization in the State of North Carolina and also received a 501( c)(3) Internal Revenue Service Classification. During the same year a grant application was submitted to the U. S. Public Health Service, Bureau of Primary Health Care, using the data from a needs assessment as a basis for a grant, to open a community health center. The grant application was funded. New Hanover Community Health Center saw their first patient in the spring of 1994. They have been in continuous service since that year. They are not a free clinic. Their target population is individuals and families at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. Their charges for this population is based on a sliding fee scale that takes into consideration the number of persons in the family and their total income. They provide primary health care to anyone coming to them for care. They accept almost all insurances, Medicaid and Medicare. They will handle all the paper work for you.

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.