The Primary Care and Hope Clinic serves as a medical home for uninsured and underserved patients in Middle Tennessee, regardless of their ability to pay. Through the consistent delivery of preventative, acute, chronic and behavioral health services, the clinic ensures that patients receive the care they need to get healthy and stay healthy.
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Services Offered
Behavioral Health Services The Primary Care & Hope Clinic uses an integrated behavioral health model that teams behavioral health providers with your medical provider. Private, in-house behavioral health therapy for adults, adolescents, and children is available with our licensed counselors and our Mental Health Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners.
Fees and Payment
The Primary Care and Hope Clinic is a non-profit health center providing quality, affordable family health services to medically uninsured and underserved families in Middle Tennessee. The health center accepts all patients regardless of their ability to pay. We offer a sliding-fee scale discount to all eligible patients, based on annual household size and income.
This is a nonprofit organization.
Services Offered To: Adults Couples Teens Children
Special Groups: Bilingual
Payment: Sliding Scale Medicare
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.