Community and School-Based Clinics
Meeting the basic healthcare needs of the underserved in our communities.
For patients who are homeless, uninsured, or financially burdened, community and school-based clinics provide a place to go for basic healthcare needs, helping prevent more serious problems.
If patients need specialty or hospital services, clinic staff members explain options and help with transitions.
Intermountain Healthcare owns and manages six community clinics, including five primary care clinics and one urgent care clinic. In addition, we provide financial support and other assistance to 12 independent community clinics.
In 2011, Intermountain’s community and school clinics provided care in more than 26,000 patient visits. Clinics supported by Intermountain provided care in more than 185,000 additional visits.
For patients in need of financial assistance, services are provided on a sliding-fee scale or, for those who are unable to pay, free of charge.
Intermountain’s school-based clinics aren’t just for students or the uninsured. They’re for everyone in the surrounding neighborhoods. Community clinics are a source of help to people who might otherwise lack convenient access to basic medical care. The clinics also ease the burden on hospital emergency rooms—which are not designed to provide basic primary care—and which are among the most expensive care sites.
In 2011, community clinics owned or financially supported by Intermountain Healthcare cared for patients in more than 212,000 visits.
2011 Clinic Visits1
Community clinics provide services to uninsured, low-income, and homeless people.
The six community clinics listed below are owned and operated by Intermountain.
| 2011 Visits | 2010 Visits | |
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(1) The number of visits for individual clinics may fluctuate from year to year due to a number of factors, including temporary variations in capacity. |
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| Cache Valley Community Health Clinic (Logan) | 2,656 | 2,591 |
| Dixon Middle School Clinic (Provo) | 2,073 | 1,860 |
| Neighborhood Clinic (Salt Lake City) | 6,522 | 6,275 |
| North Temple Clinic (Salt Lake City) | 9,511 | 9,327 |
| Pamela Atkinson Lincoln Elementary Clinic (Salt Lake City) | 3,082 | 2,974 |
| Rose Park Elementary Clinic (Salt Lake City) | 2,893 | 3,039 |
| Totals | 26,737 | 26,066 |
independent community clinics supported by intermountain2
The twelve independent community clinics listed below receive financial support from Intermountain.3
| 2011 Visits | 2010 Visits | |
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(2) Clinic visit statistics were provided by the respective clinics. (3) A significant percentage of Intermountain’s financial support of independent clinics is provided via the Intermountain Healthcare Foundation. (4) The number of visits in 2010 has been restated here as 236,070 to reflect the deletion of 3,151 visits to the Midvale Family Health Center, which did not receive financial support from Intermountain Healthcare in 2011. |
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| Cedar City Clinic (Cedar City) | 3,600 | 1,643 |
| Doctors’ Volunteer Clinic (St. George) | 11,474 | 11,586 |
| Fourth Street Clinic/Wasatch Homeless Health Care (Salt Lake City) | 22,355 | 26,621 |
| James Madison School Clinic (Ogden) | 3,154 | 3,422 |
| Midtown Community Health Center (Ogden) | 25,745 | 65,221 |
| Millcreek High Health Center (St. George) | 4,323 | 5,030 |
| Mountainlands Community Health Center (Payson) | 4,557 | 5,059 |
| Mountainlands Community Health Center (Provo) | 33,144 | 37,638 |
| People’s Health Center (Park City) | 8,601 | 7,094 |
| Salt Lake Community Health Centers – Central City (Salt Lake City) | 23,111 | 21,756 |
| Salt Lake Community Health Centers – Oquirrh View (Salt Lake City) | 27,340 | 29,805 |
| Salt Lake Community Health Centers – Stephen Radcliffe (Salt Lake City) | 18,304 | 21,195 |
| Totals | 185,708 | 236,0704 |