Sacramento Community Clinic - El Camino

Sacramento Community Clinic - El Camino is a community health center dental clinic in Sacramento, CA, operated by Health and Life Organization, Inc. (H.a.l.o), which runs 5 clinics in California.

The health center is open about 48 hours a week, though dental sessions are usually a subset of that.

Clinic Details

A look-alike meets every requirement of the federal Health Center Program — including the income-based sliding fee discount and seeing patients regardless of ability to pay — but does not receive the federal grant that funds the others. For you as a patient the discount works the same way; what differs is the funding behind it.

Dental Services

No service list has been published for this clinic, so the range here is worth asking about directly rather than assuming. The routine work — examinations, cleanings, X-rays, fillings, extractions — is normally available. Whether root canals, dentures and surgery are done on site is what differs from clinic to clinic.

Costs and Coverage

What you pay here is worked out from your household income and family size, not read off a price list. Where the thresholds fall is decided by Health and Life Organization, Inc. (H.a.l.o), so what a friend paid elsewhere is not a guide. Ask for your band in writing before agreeing to a course of treatment. 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. Adult dental coverage under California Medicaid is decided at state level and has changed more than once in most states; children’s dental coverage is required everywhere. The Medicaid dental page covers how to check yours.

Dental Providers at This Clinic

Alongside general dentistry, providers registered in dental hygiene, for cleanings and preventive care practice at this address. That is not the same as the clinic taking new patients for those treatments, or the discount covering them, so name the treatment when you call.

Planning Your Visit

965 El Camino Ave, Sacramento, CA 95815

The published number is 916-642-1867. Where an organization runs several sites this often lands at a central desk, so name the clinic and say the appointment is dental.

The call is worth making for: 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.

Common Questions

Other Clinics Operated by Health and Life Organization, Inc. (H.a.l.o)

Health and Life Organization, Inc. (H.a.l.o) operates 4 other clinics elsewhere in California. A central scheduling line can often say which of them has the shortest wait, and it is not always the nearest one. A sliding fee determination made at one of its clinics commonly carries across to the others, so income documents may not need providing twice. 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.

• Sacramento Community Clinic - Del Paso — Sacramento, less than a mile away
• WellSpace Health - Expo Parkway — Sacramento, about 1.1 miles away
• Elica Health Centers - Marysville — Sacramento, about 1.2 miles away
• Elica Health Centers - Arden Arcade — Sacramento, about 2.3 miles away