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Here are some Mid-Willamette Valley healthcare resources that may be of use to those in our community who do not have insurance and/or have limited incomes. Please give us names of other resources that you know of; we will add them to updated versions of this guide. Send new information to rl@oregonschoolofmassage.com.
These names have been obtained from publicly available media; listing an agency or an individual is not an endorsement by Oregon School of Massage.
We welcome your comments about any of these providers which you have occasion to use. Send those comments to rs@oregonschoolofmassage.com.
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Salem Free Clinics
1300 Broadway NE Suite 104
Salem, OR 97301
Dial (503) 990-8772 for information
Several health and dental centers are part of this non-profit, government qualified organization. The others are listed below. The facilities work towards providing low cost or free medical and dental care for individuals and families across Marion County. The services offered are aimed at the low income, those with no insurance, unemployed, and working poor, however no one who needs help will be turned away.
Salem Free Mental Health Clinic
3850 Portland Rd NE
Salem, Oregon 97305
(503) 990-8772
This location is part of the non-profit Salem Free Clinics organization. Services are focused on mental health issues.
Trinity Covenant Church – Salem Free Clinics
5020 Liberty Road S
Salem, OR 97302
The main phone is (503) 990-8772
Various medical professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses, and volunteers, offer their time and services here. Get access to basic medical care, cleanings, physicals, and prescription drug vouchers and medications.
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Salem Community Acupuncture
2416 13th ST SE, Salem, OR 97302.
503-798-2918.
Salemcommunityacupuncture.com
Salem Community acupuncture in an affordable treatment clinic for all needs. We treat pain, both acute and chronic, and internal medicine issues. Treatment is in reclining chairs with access to arms below the elbow and legs below the knees. The community space is restful; private enough to feel individually cared for yet collective enough that a treatment is enhanced by the energy in the room. People often nap while they retain their needles. And those needles always turn out to be easy to handle for people. We offer these services for a sliding scale: $15-$35. No questions are asked about income, you choose what you can afford to pay for treatment. This allows people to adjust their payment to allow for enough treatment frequency to make good progress on their issues. There is a one time extra chart set up fee of $10 with the first treatment.
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Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic – Lancaster Family Health Center
3896 Beverly Avenue NE Building J
Salem, Oregon 97305
(503) 588-0076
Medical care is focused on immigrants and farm workers. A number of free programs are administered from this facility.
West Salem Medical Clinic
Community clinic address – 1233 Edgewater St. NW
Salem OR 97304
Main phone number – 503-378-7526
Medical care is focused on residents of the western part of Salem Oregon. Residents can receive assistance with all of their medical needs from the center, or referrals.
West Salem Dental Clinic
190 Kingwood Ave. N.W.
Salem OR 97304
Phone – 503-315-0712
Services include extractions, cleanings, fluoride, and other free dental care. Children, the uninsured, working poor, and seniors receive first priority.
Silverton Health – Mcclaine Street Clinic
442 Mcclaine Street
Silverton, OR 97381
Dial (503) 873-1764
Services provided range from check ups, to free or discounted prescriptions, up through referrals to specialty care and local hospitals.
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Linn County assistance programs
For medical and dental aid, referrals to other programs, and housing assistance, you can turn to Community Outreach. This agency offers several services, including these:
Housing Assistance and Transitional Services
The non-profit organization also provides homeless families and people on the brink of eviction with the support and time needed to stay in their home, or the time to gain the skills to stabilize their lives. This housing and rent assistance program combines affordable housing along with intensive in-home case management and access to programs. The organization offers the entire family guidance and support, including financial assistance as funding allows, so they may build independent and stable lives, and hopefully remain in their home, or find new housing.
Health Care from Medical Clinic
The free clinic provides access to free or discounted medical care for individuals and families who have no or limited health insurance or if someone flat out can’t afford to pay for their medical bills. Community Outreach runs two acute medical clinics, one which is located in Albany Oregon and one that is in Lebanon.
Referrals and Crisis Intervention
Counselors and other professionals at Community Outreach can help people 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. they provide counseling, referrals to other government programs and local charities, as well as crisis intervention services. Highly trained crisis line workers and counselors will provide free advice as well as access to assistance programs, resources, and information to empower clients and families that will help them make informed decisions and develop solution to their financial and personal problems.
Call Community Outreach at (541) 758-3000.
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Fish of Albany
(541) 928-4460
They offer:
Prescription Medication Assistance: This program provides payment to a local doctor or pharmacy for medication and other prescription drugs that are prescribed by a physician to treat a life-threatening illness or a communicable disease. The program is targeted at people who do not have any other prescription insurance and without other resources to pay medical bills.
Free Gasoline and Transportation Assistance
People in need of help can get free gasoline vouchers and/or bus tickets if you are in an emergency need of transportation services. Click hereto find other ways to get free gasoline.
Food Pantry: Get up to a 5 day supply of free food and groceries. Aid is offered to individuals and households that may be lacking adequate food and that have low or no income. The aid is really for those who may be experiencing a temporary crisis and those on a fixed income requiring help to make ends meet and who need food for their family.
Clothes Closet: Fish of Albany provides free clothing, personal hygiene, household items and diapers to families and individuals that may be lacking adequate clothing. It is for low income people or if someone is facing a short term crisis.
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Linn County Salvation Army provides low to moderate income individuals with emergency assistance. Some of the services offered include: rental assistance, food boxes, rent and lodging vouchers, utility and heating bill assistance, prescription drug assistance, gasoline vouchers, bus tickets, clothing, counseling, personal hygiene items, and even funds to make a mortgage payment. (541) 928-4774.
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Sweet Home Emergency Ministries – SHEM.(541) 367-6504.
They run the SHEM Food Pantry:, which offer groceries, food boxes and more to families and individuals, seniors and others. The food will help them their nutritional needs. They also offer client assistance, which provides emergency financial assistance and cash grants to needy families and individuals. Assistance offered by this program includes utility and heating bill assistance, rental assistance, prescription drug assistance, lodging vouchers, gasoline vouchers, bus tickets, and access to short term emergency housing.
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Linn County Community Action Agency
Call the agency at (541) 752-1010
The local community action agency is Community Services Consortium. They offer several services and programs, including the Oregon Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), the Gas Assistance Program (GAP) , S.O.S. (Central Lincoln PUD customers), the state of Oregon Low Income Gas Assistance Program (OLGA), as well as the Oregon Heat Oregon Energy Assistance (OEA). They can also provide grants for housing expenses, and offer free food.
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