In 1976 a set of involved residents representing the City of Bridgeport, Bridgeport Housing Authority and different community companies shaped the West End Neighborhood Advisory Council. They noticed that there has been a determined want for clinical and dental offerings in southwest Bridgeport and submitted a request for Public Health Services, Section 330 investment to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to offer healthcare to their impoverished neighborhoods. The Health Center have become a truth while the Advisory Council obtained the “Notice of Grant Award” in August 1977. This investment become given to the City of Bridgeport to assist the Health Center for 3 years. At the cease of this 3 12 months investment cycle, the Council emerged because the Board of Directors with the overall fiduciary obligations of the newly included Health Center. The offerings have been relocated from Building #14 of the P.T. Barnum complicated to the refurbished St. Stephen's School on Bird Street in 1978. On August 1, 1980 Southwest Community Health Center become included as a not-for-profit-entity.

Since then, SWCHC has extended into the Marina Village Housing Complex at 743 South Avenue. Our 510 Clinton Avenue web website online gives a complete variety of woman's health offerings. The 1046 Fairfield Avenue web website online homes Behavioral Health offerings, inclusive of the Intensive Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment Program. In July 2007 SWCHC opened the 968 Fairfield Avenue constructing which have become the brand new principal facility of the Health Center and gives clinical, dental, and behavioral health offerings.

Southwest Community Health Center seems ahead to the ongoing enlargement of Healthcare offerings to advantage the Bridgeport community.

Contact information:

Phone: (203) 330-6000
Address: 968 Fairfield Ave, Bridgeport, CT - 06605

Website: https://www.swchc.org/

This is a SLIDING SCALE clinic. The costs for clinic services are based on either your income or they offer type of financial assistance. Contact the clinic directly to discuss prices for individual services, which vary. Sliding Scale does not necessarily mean free.

It offers services including Adult Dental Care to improve and maintain the oral health of adults and seniors, children's dental examination, care and education, sliding scale rate program.
Optimus Healthcare offers a differential payment program for patients who do not have insurance or do not have enough income to pay off their outstanding debts. The amount of the sliding fee rebate depends on family size, income and is determined in accordance with established federal poverty level income guidelines. Patient is required to cooperate in completing the escrow application and providing proof of income (two recent pay stubs, copy of eligibility check, W2, etc.).

Contact information:

Phone: (203) 579-5000
Address: 64 Black Rock Avenue, Bridgeport, CT - 06605

Optimus Health Care, Inc. is a deemed Federal Public Health Service and receives HHS funding and has Federal Public Health Service (PHS) deemed status with respect to certain health or health-related claims, including medical malpractice claims, for itself and its covered individuals.

Community first appears for OPTIMUS Health Care. As Southwestern Connecticut’s largest provider of primary health care services, we are at the center of your community, providing the full range of care you need most, when and where you need it—whether or not you have health insurance. OPTIMUS: Committed to comprehensive community care.

Contact information:

Phone: (203) 696-3260
Address: 982 E Main St, Bridgeport, CT - 06608

Website: https://optimushealthcare.org

While its office is technology progressive (including digital x-rays CEREC ® CAD-CAM Waterlase ® Invisalign ®) its mission is to listen to individual concerns so that it can customize treatment to meet personal goals. In the process, it improves health function and self-image to enhance our patients lives. It accepts most payment methods but do not accept state aid. Call 877-469-3980 now.

Specialties

• Oral Hygiene
  
• Diagnodent
  
• Digital Xray
  
• General Checkup & Cleaning
  
• Intraoral Camera
  
• Panorex Dental X-Ray
  
• Ultrasonic Cleaning

Contact information:

Phone: (877) 469-3980
Address: Roberta J. Garceau DMD, 62 Bloomfield Ave, Windsor, CT 06095

Website: https://www.greatnewsmile.com/

At Bridgeport Family Dentist, it offers CEREC DENTAL CROWNS RESTORATION

A damaged tooth can be easily repaired with the placement of a dental crown. When you choose the CEREC system for tooth restoration, your porcelain crowns are fabricated and inserted in one dental appointment! The convenience of eliminating a second office visit is a great benefit of CEREC.

Service Provided

• Cosmetic Dentist
  
• Dental Implants
  
• Teeth Bonding
  
• Dental Crowns
  
• Gum Contouring
  
• Gum Grafts
  
• Invisalign
  
• Sedation Dentistry
  
• Smile Makeovers
  
• Dental Veneers
  
• Teeth Whitening
  
• Gum Depigmentation
  
• Gingivectomy
  
• All on 4

Contact information:

Phone: (203) 612-5870
Address: 4697 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT - 06606

Website:https://www.bridgeportfamilydental.com/

When visiting Fairfield CT Dentist Dr. Joseph Worthing, Your smile is the number one priority here. their entire dental team is dedicated to providing the personalized and gentle care you deserve, whether it's a cleaning or dental implant procedure. their dental office is open Monday through Friday from 8 am to 5 pm. Early morning and evening hours are available upon request.

Dr. Worthington is at his office in Manhattan on Wednesdays, but these days he may have time in the morning or evening. We are conveniently located in the heart of Fairfield on "Brick Alley" of Post Road at 1305 Post Rd., Suite 104, Fairfield, CT 06430.

At Worthington Advanced Dentistry, you will experience all that modern dentistry has to offer. Imagine having your Porcelain Restorations like Crowns, Inlays, Onlays and even Implant Abutments with the crowns done in One Visit ! This is made possible with the newest technology available called Cerec . Give them a call at 2032568073 to find out more about this exciting technology that only a select few dentist have in their offices.

Contact information:

Phone: (203) 256-8073
Address: 1305 Post Road, Fairfield, CT - 06824
Website: https://www.drworthington.com/

Smile Builders is the mobile dental program. Smile Builders goes to all the schools and some preschools in Waterbury and Naugatuck. If your child has HUSKY insurance or is uninsured and attends a Waterbury or Naugatuck school, he or she is eligible for Smile Builders.

Registration for Smile Builders offers your child with screenings and cleanings at school. Call 203-756-8021 ext. 3812 or speak with your child’s school nurse to register for Smile Builders.

Smile Builders forms are handed out annually at the beginning of the school year. The school nurse will have additional forms or you can download them on their website below.

Contact information:

Phone: (203) 597-9044
Address:114 Benedict St, Waterbury, CT - 06706
Website: https://staywellhealth.org/

Founded in 1968 in a collaboration between the community and Yale School of Medicine. The first community health center in Connecticut, the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center has a long-standing history of serving New Haven neighborhoods, which are among the most disadvantaged in the State.

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center also offers health care services to those from the City of West Haven and towns in the Lower Naugatuck Valley, Ansonia, Seymour, Shelton, Naugatuck, and Oxford.

Today, the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center is proud to stand as a national leader in community healthcare, offering cutting-edge and integrated care at over twenty care sites throughout New Haven County. They serve over 36,000 patients each year and work hard every day to continue the important work that Mr. Scott started, keeping close to mind his advocacy for community healthcare and his passion to meet the healthcare needs of the under-served.

Contact information:

Phone: (203) 503-3000
Address:122 Wilmot Rd, New Haven, CT - 06515
Website: https://www.cornellscott.org/

Charter Oak Health Center furthers healthier communities by providing quality, safe, patientcentered health care services in medically underserved areas, regardless of ability to pay. To be a nationally recognized health and wellness corridor known for comprehensive patientcentered services, it's highly qualified and dedicated team of health professionals, advanced technology and collaborative partnerships. Since 1978, Charter Oak Health Center, Inc., a federally qualified, freestanding, Joint Commission accredited, nonprofit community health center – has continuously provided community-based primary health care to residents in the greater Hartford area. We have grown from a small organization operating out of an apartment building to the 60,000 square foot building our patients now call their medical home.

Charter Oak Health Center has received the Gold Seal of Approval by the Joint Commission, an independent, notforprofit organization. The Joint Commission accredits and certifies more than 20,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. Joint Commission accreditation and certification is recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality that reflects an organizations commitment to meeting certain performance standards. Charter Oak Health Center receives funding from HHS and has recognized Federal Public Health Service (PHS) status for itself and for individuals for certain health or health-related claims, including medical malpractice claims.

Contact information:

Phone: (860) 951-7112
Address:401 Flatbush Ave School-based Health Center, Hartford, CT - 06106
Website: https://thecharteroak.org/

Established in 1983 by volunteer health professionals and supporters and incorporated in 1986, The Hartford Gay & Lesbian Health Collective, Inc. (HGLHC), has become an organization with full and parttime staff and over 100 volunteers contributing thousands of hours annually.

Since its inception, the hallmark of the Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective has been the provision of quality services by professional and highly skilled staff and volunteers in a safe and welcoming environment, free of judgmental attitudes or prejudice.

The Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective currently provides medical services, dental services, support groups, and health education tailored to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities, but serves clients of all genders and gender identities, sexual orientations, ages and ethnicities. The Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective is especially proud of its services to people living with HIV/AIDS. We touch the lives of thousands of people every year.

HGLHC is and will continue to be an advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues and is proud to maintain a prominent presence at community meetings, events and other venues where issues of relevance to HGLHC`s constituency are discussed, decided or celebrated.

Contact information:

Phone: (860) 278-4163
Address:1841 Broad St PO Box 2094, Hartford, CT - 06114
Website: https://www.hglhc.org/