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CommuniHealth Services - Downsville Clinic
4787 Highway 151, Downsville, LA 71234-5145
CommuniHealth Services - Downsville Clinic is a community health center dental clinic in Downsville, LA, operated by Morehouse Community Medical Centers, which runs 3 clinics in Louisiana.
The health center is open about 40 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 | 4787 Highway 151, Downsville, LA 71234 |
|---|---|
| Phone | 318-556-8459 |
| Operated by | Morehouse Community Medical Centers |
| Program | Health Center Program (federally funded) |
| Setting | School |
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. The scale belongs to Morehouse Community Medical Centers, not to a national schedule, so the only reliable figure is the one they give you. 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 Louisiana 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.
Planning Your Visit
4787 Highway 151, Downsville, LA 71234
The published number is 318-556-8459. 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
Can I book online?
No website is recorded for this clinic, so the phone is the route. If you reach a central number for the organization, say the clinic name and say the appointment is dental, or you may be booked into the medical schedule.
Will I see a dentist or a hygienist?
Depends on what you booked. A cleaning is normally a hygienist; an examination, filling or extraction is a dentist. Some clinics run hygiene appointments on different days from dentist appointments, which is worth knowing before you take time off.
Will they see me if I still owe them money?
Usually yes for pain and for anything urgent, though a clinic may ask you to agree a plan for the balance before booking routine work. An old balance is worth raising on the phone instead of discovering it at the desk; it is often smaller after a discount is applied than the letter suggests.
Is this a federally funded clinic?
Yes, this site operates under the federal Health Center Program, which is what obliges it to discount by household income and to see patients regardless of ability to pay. It does not make the care free, and it does not decide which treatments are offered here.
Can they do specialist work here?
Providers in more than general dentistry are registered at this address, which is listed further up the page. That does not mean the clinic is taking new patients for those treatments or that they fall inside the discount, so name the treatment when you call.
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.
Other Clinics Operated by Morehouse Community Medical Centers
Morehouse Community Medical Centers operates 2 other clinics in 2 other communities in Louisiana. A central scheduling line can often say which of them has the shortest wait, and it is not always the nearest one. Once your discount is assessed at one of its sites, the others normally honor it without a second application. 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
These are straight-line distances. Two clinics a mile apart can have very different waits, so it is worth calling both.
- Mercy Dental — Ruston, about 15 miles away
- Lincoln Community Health Center — Ruston, about 15.1 miles away
- PHSC West Monroe Family Health Center — West Monroe, about 17 miles away
- Pinnacle Family Health, Inc. — West Monroe, about 18.4 miles away
Confirmed Payment Options
Income-Based Fees
Call CommuniHealth Services - Downsville Clinic
Confirm current dental services, appointment availability, costs and accepted insurance directly with the clinic.
Nearby Affordable Dental Clinics
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Lincoln Community Health Center
1140 S Vienna St, Ruston, LA 71270-5834 15.1 miles away
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PHSC West Monroe Family Health Center
301 McMillan Rd, West Monroe, LA 71291-5385 17 miles away
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Pinnacle Family Health, Inc.
101 Crosley St, West Monroe, LA 71291-2913 18.4 miles away
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