Community Health Center
UMMA Health Florence Clinic
711 W Florence Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90044-6105 1.3 miles away
Community Health Center
UMMA Health Fremont Wellness Center
7821 Avalon Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90003-2358
UMMA Health Fremont Wellness Center is a community health center dental clinic in Los Angeles, CA, operated by University Muslim Medical Association, which runs 4 clinics in California.
The health center is open about 45 hours a week, though dental sessions are usually a subset of that.
Access to This Clinic
This clinic is located inside a school. School-based health center sites typically serve enrolled students, and in some cases their families or the surrounding community. Access is determined jointly by the school and the health center. Contact the clinic before visiting to confirm whether patients who are not students can be seen.
Clinic Details
| Address | 7821 Avalon Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90003 |
|---|---|
| Phone | 323-406-5800 |
| Operated by | University Muslim Medical Association |
| Program | Health Center Program (federally funded) |
| Setting | School |
| Site schedule | Full-Time |
| Operating calendar | Year-Round |
Planning Your Visit
7821 Avalon Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90003
The published number is 323-406-5800. It may be a shared scheduling line. Say which site you mean and that you want dental rather than medical, or you can be booked into the wrong queue.
Things to settle on the phone first: the dental hours, and which days appointments run, whether new dental patients are being taken, and the current wait, what a first visit costs, before and after any discount, whether your insurance or Medicaid dental plan is accepted, by plan name, and what to bring for the sliding fee application.
Dental Services
This clinic has not published a list of the treatments it provides. Expect the routine treatments to be available. The question worth asking is about the expensive ones: root canals, dentures and oral surgery are handled in house at some health centers and referred out at others.
Costs and Coverage
Charges are set against household income and household size rather than a fixed fee schedule. Where the thresholds fall is decided by University Muslim Medical Association, so what a friend paid elsewhere is not a guide. Ask them to run your household through it before you commit to a treatment plan. Our guide to applying for the discount lists the documents to bring.
No Medicaid registration has been recorded for this clinic, which is not the same as Medicaid being refused. What California Medicaid covers for adults is a state decision and has been cut and restored in several states; for children the benefit is required nationally. The Medicaid dental page covers how to check yours.
Common Questions
What if I have no fixed address?
Say so when you call rather than leaving the field blank. Health centers see people without stable housing routinely, some hold a specific program for it, and a shelter or day center address is normally accepted for the paperwork. Not having an address is not a disqualification.
How do I get my records if I move away?
Ask for a copy of your chart and your X-rays, which you are entitled to. Recent images are worth having: a new dentist can often use them instead of taking their own, which saves a charge at the first visit somewhere else.
Does California Medicaid cover adult dental work?
That is decided at state level and has changed more than once in most states, ranging from comprehensive to emergency extractions only. Dental coverage for children enrolled in Medicaid is a required benefit everywhere. Our Medicaid dental page covers how to check where your state stands now.
What happens at a first appointment?
Usually an examination with X-rays, sometimes a cleaning, and normally no treatment beyond that — anything found is scheduled for a later visit. Those items are billed separately, which is where unexpected first-visit charges come from. Ask for a written treatment plan with itemized costs before agreeing to anything, so you can stage the work over time if you need to.
Is the discount worked out on gross income or take-home pay?
Normally gross, before tax and deductions, which surprises people who budget by what lands in the account. Ask which figure this clinic uses and over what period, because a year that included a few months of higher earnings can put you in a band that does not reflect what you have now.
How large is the dental program?
No dental activity figures have been published for this organization in a form we can tie to it, so the size of the program here is unknown. Asking how many days a week a dentist is in gets you further than asking how big the clinic is.
Other Clinics Operated by University Muslim Medical Association
University Muslim Medical Association operates 3 other clinics in 2 other communities in California. Asking the scheduling line which site can see you soonest is usually faster than calling each in turn; the shortest wait is not always the closest clinic. The income assessment usually transfers between sites in the same organization, which saves repeating the paperwork. What is treated at one site is no guide to another, so confirm with the clinic you actually intend to visit.
Other Dental Clinics Nearby
Distances are as the crow flies. Wait times are set clinic by clinic, so ask each one rather than assuming.
- UMMA Health Florence Clinic — Los Angeles, about 1.3 miles away
- Yehowa Medical Services - Florence — Los Angeles, about 1.7 miles away
- SJCH LEWIS FRAYSER CLINIC — Los Angeles, about 2 miles away
- WATTS HEALTHCARE CORPORATION — Los Angeles, about 2.1 miles away
Confirmed Payment Options
Income-Based Fees
Call UMMA Health Fremont Wellness Center
Confirm current dental services, appointment availability, costs and accepted insurance directly with the clinic.
Nearby Affordable Dental Clinics
Community Health Center
Yehowa Medical Services - Florence
1039 W Florence Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90044-2498 1.7 miles away
Community Health Center
SJCH LEWIS FRAYSER CLINIC
5701 S Hoover St, Los Angeles, CA 90037-4045 2 miles away
Community Health Center
WATTS HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
10300 Compton Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90002 2.1 miles away
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