Westside Health Center

Westside Health Center is a community health center dental clinic in Grand Rapids, MI, operated by Cherry Street Services, which runs 9 clinics in Michigan.

The health center is open about 51.5 hours a week, though dental sessions are usually a subset of that.

Clinic Details

Planning Your Visit

669 Stocking Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504

The published number is 616-235-1480. 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. Cherry Street Services sets its own income bands, so a quote from another clinic tells you nothing about this one. 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 Michigan 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.

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.

Common Questions

Size of the Dental Service

Cherry Street Services provided 66,488 dental visits and 27,300 dental patients in 2025, with the equivalent of 75.12 full-time dental staff. This indicates an established dental service operating regular sessions, although appointment availability still varies by clinic and time of year.

Figures describe the operating organization as a whole, across all of its clinics.

Other Clinics Operated by Cherry Street Services

Cherry Street Services operates 8 other clinics in 4 other communities in Michigan. 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. 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

Measured straight-line rather than by road. Availability varies enough between them that a second call is usually worth making.

• Belknap Commons Dental Center — Grand Rapids, about 1.3 miles away
• Ferguson Dental Center — Grand Rapids, about 1.5 miles away
• Catherine's Health Center - Mel Trotter — Grand Rapids, about 1.5 miles away
• Heart of the City Health Center — Grand Rapids, about 1.6 miles away