Community Health Center
CFH - Downtown Site
505 N Jackson St, Jackson, MI 49201-1266 1.3 miles away
Community Health Center
1024 Fleming Ave, Jackson, MI 49202-2597
CFH - Northeast Health Center is a community health center dental clinic in Jackson, MI, operated by Center for Family Health, which runs 4 clinics in Michigan.
The health center is open about 32 hours a week, so dental capacity is limited and the wait can be long.
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.
| Address | 1024 Fleming Ave, Jackson, MI 49202 |
|---|---|
| Phone | 517-748-5500 |
| Operated by | Center for Family Health |
| Program | Health Center Program (federally funded) |
| Setting | School |
| Site schedule | Full-Time |
| Operating calendar | Year-Round |
1024 Fleming Ave, Jackson, MI 49202
The published number is 517-748-5500. 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.
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.
Charges are set against household income and household size rather than a fixed fee schedule. The bands are set by Center for Family Health rather than nationally, which is why prices differ between two clinics on the same scale. 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.
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.
Tell them at the point of booking and ask how they will contact you — some clinics will use an email address, a shelter or a relative’s number. Missing a call back about an appointment is a common way to lose a slot that was already booked.
If you think it might be an emergency, go to an emergency room rather than trying to book here — that is the one situation where the price of the visit is not the thing to weigh. Otherwise, call early in the day and say you are in pain, because it routes the call differently; some health centers hold same-day slots for exactly that and do not advertise them.
This site operates inside a school, which usually means it serves enrolled students and sometimes their siblings rather than the general public. Confirm who is eligible before you travel; if you are not, the other clinics listed below are the ones to call.
Across all of its sites, Center for Family Health reported treating 7,490 dental patients in its most recent federal return. That is the organization rather than this address, and a large organization can still run a small dental room here, so it tells you the program is real and operating rather than how many chairs are in this building.
Some clinics require you to register with the health center before booking dental, which adds a step and sometimes a separate appointment. Ask about that on the first call so you are not turned back at the desk.
No. The Health Center Program does not set citizenship or immigration status as a condition of being seen, and clinics in it are not required to ask. What they do need is something to work out your fee, which is income and household size rather than status. If this is the thing keeping you from calling, ask what they require before you decide not to go.
Center for Family Health provided 16,344 dental visits and 7,490 dental patients in 2025, with the equivalent of 23.87 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.
Center for Family Health operates 3 other clinics elsewhere 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. 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.
Straight-line distances. The nearest clinic is not reliably the one that can see you soonest, so try a couple.
Confirm current dental services, appointment availability, costs and accepted insurance directly with the clinic.
Community Health Center
505 N Jackson St, Jackson, MI 49201-1266 1.3 miles away
Community Health Center
500 N Jackson St, Jackson, MI 49201-1223 1.4 miles away
Community Health Center
544 Wildwood Ave, Jackson, MI 49201-1097 1.9 miles away
Community Health Center
115 Market Pl, Albion, MI 49224-1767 18.6 miles away