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Mar 25, 2011
Federally-funded health centers care for you, even if you have no health insurance. You pay what you can afford, based on your income. Health centers provide
•checkups when you're well
•treatment when you're sick
•complete care when you're pregnant
•immunizations and checkups for your children
•dental care and prescription drugs for your family
•mental health and substance abuse care if you need it
Health centers are in most cities and many rural areas.
For more information visit http://findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov/
•checkups when you're well
•treatment when you're sick
•complete care when you're pregnant
•immunizations and checkups for your children
•dental care and prescription drugs for your family
•mental health and substance abuse care if you need it
Health centers are in most cities and many rural areas.
For more information visit http://findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov/
Mar 25, 2011
Clinical Trials
NIDCR sometimes seeks volunteers with specific dental, oral, and craniofacial conditions to participate in research studies, also known as clinical trials. Researchers may provide study participants with limited free or low-cost dental treatment for the particular condition they are studying. To find out if there are any NIDCR clinical trials that you might fit into, go to "NIDCR Studies Seeking Patients." For a complete list of all federally funded clinical trials, visit ClinicalTrials.gov.
Dental Schools
Dental schools can be a good source of quality, reduced-cost dental treatment. Most of these teaching facilities have clinics that allow dental students to gain experience treating patients while providing care at a reduced cost. Experienced, licensed dentists closely supervise the students. Post-graduate and faculty clinics are also available at most schools.
Dental hygiene schools may also offer supervised, low-cost preventive dental care as part of the training experience for dental hygienists.
Bureau of Primary Health Care
The Bureau of Primary Health Care, a service of the Health Resources and Services Administration (1-888-Ask-HRSA), supports federally-funded community health centers across the country that provide free or reduced-cost health services, including dental care.
NIDCR sometimes seeks volunteers with specific dental, oral, and craniofacial conditions to participate in research studies, also known as clinical trials. Researchers may provide study participants with limited free or low-cost dental treatment for the particular condition they are studying. To find out if there are any NIDCR clinical trials that you might fit into, go to "NIDCR Studies Seeking Patients." For a complete list of all federally funded clinical trials, visit ClinicalTrials.gov.
Dental Schools
Dental schools can be a good source of quality, reduced-cost dental treatment. Most of these teaching facilities have clinics that allow dental students to gain experience treating patients while providing care at a reduced cost. Experienced, licensed dentists closely supervise the students. Post-graduate and faculty clinics are also available at most schools.
Dental hygiene schools may also offer supervised, low-cost preventive dental care as part of the training experience for dental hygienists.
Bureau of Primary Health Care
The Bureau of Primary Health Care, a service of the Health Resources and Services Administration (1-888-Ask-HRSA), supports federally-funded community health centers across the country that provide free or reduced-cost health services, including dental care.
Mar 7, 2011
In 1946, Congress passed a law that gave hospitals, nursing homes and other health facilities grants and loans for construction and modernization. In return, they agreed to provide a reasonable volume of services to persons unable to pay and to make their services available to all persons residing in the facility’s area. The program stopped providing funds in 1997, but about 200 health care facilities nationwide are still obligated to provide free or reduced-cost care.
Steps to Apply for Hill-Burton Free or Reduced-Cost Care
1. Find the Hill-Burton obligated facility nearest you from the list of Hill-Burton obligated facilities.
2. Go to the facility's admissions or business office and ask for a copy of the Hill-Burton Individual Notice. The Individual Notice will tell you what income level makes you eligible for free or reduced-cost care, what services might be covered, and exactly where in the facility to apply.
3. Go to the office listed in the Individual Notice and say you want to apply for Hill-Burton free or reduced-cost care. You may need to fill out a form.
4. Gather any other required documents (such as a pay stub to prove income eligibility) and take or send them to the obligated facility.
5. If you are asked to apply for Medicaid, Medicare, or some other financial assistance program, you must do so.
6. When you return the completed application, ask for a Determination of Eligibility. Check the Individual Notice to see how much time the facility has before it must tell you whether or not you will receive free or reduced-cost care.
More about Hill-Burton Free or Reduced-Cost Care
You are eligible to apply for Hill-Burton free care if your income is at or below the current HHS Poverty Guidelines. You may be eligible for Hill-Burton reduced-cost care if your income is as much as two times (triple for nursing home care) the HHS Poverty Guidelines.
Care at a Hill-Burton obligated facility is not automatically free or reduced-cost. You must apply at the admissions or business office at the obligated facility and be found eligible to receive free or reduced-cost care. You may apply before or after you receive care — you may even apply after a bill has been sent to a collection agency.
Some Hill-Burton facilities may use different eligibility standards and procedures.
Hill-Burton facilities must post a sign in their admissions and business offices and emergency room that says: NOTICE - Medical Care for Those Who Cannot Afford to Pay, and they must provide you with a written Individual Notice that lists the types of services eligible for Hill-Burton free or reduced-cost care, what income level qualifies for free or reduced-cost care and how long the facility may take in determining an applicant's eligibility.
Only facility costs are covered, not your private doctors' bills. Facilities may require you to provide documentation that verifies your eligibility, such as proof of income.
Hill-Burton facilities must provide a specific amount of free or reduced cost care each year, but can stop once they have given that amount. Obligated facilities publish an Allocation Plan in the local newspaper each year. The Allocation Plan includes the income criteria and the types of services it intends to provide at no cost or below cost. It also specifies the amount of free or reduced cost services it will provide for the year.
When you apply for Hill-Burton care, the obligated facility must provide you with a written statement that tells you what free or reduced-cost care services you will get or why you have been denied.
The facility may deny your request if
■Your income is more than the income specified in the Allocation Plan.
■The facility has given out its required amount of free care as specified in its Allocation Plan.
■The services you requested or received are not covered in the facility's Allocation Plan.
■The services you requested or received are to be paid by a governmental program such as Medicare/Medicaid or insurance.
■The facility asked you to apply for Medicare/Medicaid or other governmental program, and you did not.
■You did not give the facility proof of your income, such as a pay stub.
You may file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services if you believe you have been unfairly denied Hill-Burton free or reduced-cost care. Your complaint must be in writing and can be a letter that simply states the facts and dates concerning the complaint. You may call your local legal aid services for help in filing a complaint. Send complaints to:
Director, Division of Facilities Compliance and Recovery
5600 Fishers Lane
Room 10-105
Rockville, MD 20857
Hill-Burton Hotline
1-800-638-0742
(1-800-492-0359 in Maryland)
Oct 29, 2010
FREE(and LOW-COST)COMPUTERS
The following organizations collect and refurbish old computers from businesses and individuals and then distribute the computers to non profit organizations, universities, schools, libraries and economically disadvantaged individuals. Contact them directly.
National Organizations
National Cristina Foundation
18 Harbor Dr.
Stamford, CT 06902
Phone: 1-203-967-8000 or 1-800-274-7846
AnotheR BytE, Inc.
319 S. San Francisco St.
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Phone: 1-800-775-0712
State and Regional Organizations
Arizona
1. Easter Seals Technology Program
Phone: (1-602-252-6061) or (1-800-626-6061)
2. Easter SealsComputer Placement Program
903 N. 2nd St.
Pheonix, AZ 85004
3. Kingdom On-Liners Church
Pheonix, AZ
Phone: 1-602-404-7415
California
1. Access 2 Technology
484 Lake Park Ave.,PMB#21
Oakland, CA 94610
Phone: 1-510-879-2136
2. A.C.E.S. ( Adaptive Comuter Empowerment Services)
1290 cushman Ave.
San Diego, CA 92110
Phone: 1-619275-5028
3. Alameda Co.Computer Resource Center
5725 International Blvd., Bldg. D
Oakland, CA 94621
Phone: 1-510-434-1325
4. Berkeley Neighborhood Computers
P.O.Box 2435
Berkeley, CA 94702
Phone: 1-510-845-5757
5. Computer Recycling Project
479 Bartlett St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: 1-415-342-2244
6. Computers and You/Glide Memorial Church
330 Ellis St. , Rm 610
San Francisco, cA 94102
Phone: 1-415-674-6150
7. Computers for Charity
Orange Co. Community Development Council 12640
Knott St.
Garden Grove, CA
Phone: 1-714-897-6670
8. Goodwill Industries of Orange Co.
2702 W. 5th St.
Santa Ana, CA 92703
Phone:1-714-543-9272
9. Goodwill Industries of the Redwood Empire
651 Yolanda Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
Phone: 1-800-400-2720
10. Joni and Friends Ministries (for disabled persons)
Box 3333
Agoura, CA 91376
Phone: 1-818707-5664
11. Marin Computer Resource Center
60 Leveroni Court, Ste 200B
Novato, CA 94949
Phone: 1-415-883-1428
12. Marin Computer Resource Center
757 Lincoln Ave., Units 18 and 19
San Rafael, CA 94901
Phone: 415-454-4227
13. Neighborhood Computers Project (Berkeley)
P.O. Box 2435
Berkeley, CA94702
Phone: 1-510-845-1226
14. New Life Computer Foundation (NLCF)
24026 Gilmore St.
West Hills, CA 91367
Phone: 1-818-348-9264
15. Resource Recyclers International
5700 3rd St., #117
San Francisco, CA 94124
Phone: 1-415-671-4905
16. San Francisco Boys and Girls Club-Ernest Ingold Branch
1950 Page St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: 1-415-221-6100
17. sfrecycles.org
1145 Market St., Suite 401
San francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 1-415-554-3400
18. Urban Ore
7th and Gilman St.
Berkely, CA
Phone: 1-510-559-4456
COLORADO
Computer Equal Start Education Program
Grand Junction, CO
Phone1-970-243-4647
DELAWARE
Goodwill Industries of Delaware
300 E. Lea Blvd.
Wilmington, DE
Phone: 1-302-761-4646
District of Columbia
Timedollar Institute
P.O. Box 42519
Washington, DC 20015
Phone: 1-202-686-5200, Ext. 12
FLORIDA
1. Alachua Freenet Recycle Program
2603 NW 13th ST., #315
Gainesville, FL 32609
Phone: 1-303-329-8091
2. Computer Recycling Program of Miami
3260 SW 18th Terrace
Miami, FL 33145
Phone: 1-305-461-1481
3. Computers for the Disabled
Charles Babbage Memorial Foundation
Box 16-1443
Miami, FL 33116
Phone: 1-305-274-0099
Georgia
1. Computers for Families
285 Dove Dr.
Hephzibah, GA 30815
Phone: 1-706-592-5299
2. ReBoot (Georgia Tools for Life Initiative)
c/o Friends of Disabled Adults
4900 Lewis Rd.
Stone Mountain, GA 30083
Phone: 1-404-657-3057
Hawaii
Hawaii Computers for Kids Program
Computer- Aided Techmologies International, Inc.
47-396 Kamhameha Highway
Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744
Phone:1-808-521-2259
IDAHO
The International Technology Project
915 W. 2nd
Weiser, ID 83672
Phone: 1-208-549-8204
ILLINOIS
C.W.M. Enterprise Help Seniors, Help Themselves
RR#3 Box#73
Ripley, IL 62353
Phone: 1-217-322-6224
INDIANA
1. Computer Closet
IUK Outreach Building
326 E. Lincoln Rd.
Kokomo,IN 46902
Phone: 1-765-868-0073
2. Corporation for Educational Technology
Buddy System Project
Phone: 1-800-53-BUDDY
MARYLAND
1. Computer Reclamation Inc.
10759 Tucker St.
Beltsville, MD 20705
Phone:1-301-595-0995
2. Computers for Teachers
Capital PC Users group
51 Monroe St.
Rockville, MD 20851
Phone:1-301-762-9372
3. Furniture and Other Donations Hot Line
c/o Montgomery Co. Volunteer Center
401 Hungerford Dr., 1st FL
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone: 1-240-777-2612
4. JCA Computer Docs
Lakeforest Mall
Gaithersburg, MD
Phone:1-301-987-2793
5. The Lazarus Foundation
10378 Eclipse Way
Columbia, MD21044
Phone 1-410-740-0735
6. Pheonix project
8623 Spruce Run Court
Ellicott, MD 21043
Phone:1-410-750-2435
7. Resettlement Program-JSSA
4928 Wyaconda Rd.
Rockville, MD 20852
Phone: 1-301-770-5120
8. Southern Maryland Applied Reseach and Technology Consortium, Inc.
20058-D point Lookout Rd.
Great Mills, Maryland
Phone: 1-301-737-0394
MASSACHUSETTS
Mindshare Collaborative
P.O. Box 35389
Brighton, MA 02135
Phone: 1-617-787-7870
MICHIGAN
1. Greater Kalamazoo Telecity USA
960 King Highway
Kalamazoo,MI 49001
Phone:1-616-342-7377
2. Think Detriot Computer Recycling
1419 West Warren
Detroit, MI 48208
Phone: 1-313-833-1600
MISSOURI
Yellow Bug Coputers
3408 BalboaLn.#26
Columbia,MO 65203
Phone:1-573-882-8829
NEBRASKA
Nebraska Assistive Technology Partnership
Phone:1-877-201-4141
NEVADA
1. Assistive Technology Recycling Program (computers for Disabled persons)
2810 W. Charleston Blvd., #H-79
Las vegas, NV 89102
Phone:1-702-259-0789
2. Disabilitiy Resources, Inc. (for disabled) {gee, do you think}
155 Glendale Ave., Suite 11
Sparks,NV 89431
Phone:1-775-29-1126
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Community Computer Exchange
46 Stowell Rd.
Bedford, NH 03110
Phone: 1-603-472-4049
New Jersey
1. Star of Hope Minstry
34 Broadway
Paterson, NJ 07505
Phone: 1-973-742-1222, Ext. 10
2. United Way of North Essex/Computer Recycling Project
Phone: 1-973-746-4040
NEW YORK
1. Computers for Children
P.O. Box 76
Buffalo, NY 14201
Phone: 1-716-843-8880
2. Daisable Hotline
420 64th St., Suite 1B
Brooklyn, NY 11220
Phone: 1-718-439-0257
3. Kids Can-USA
Christian Heritage Ministries International, Inc.
950 Alhambra Rd.
North Baldwin, NY 11510
Phone:1-516-379-4645
4. LINCT Coalition
The Hamlet Green, Ste.3
103 W. Mantauk Highway
Hampton Bays, NY 11946
Phone: 1-212-728-9100
5. The National Urban Technology center, Inc.
55 Jhon St., Suite 300
New York, NY 10038
Phone:1-212-528-7350
OHIO
1. Computer Ownership for Neighbors
c/o Stockyard Area Development Association
6209 Storer Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44102
Phone: 1-216-631-1270
2. Dayton Microcomputer Association (for handicapped persons)
301 Valley St.
Dayton, OH 45404
Phone1-513-229-3657
3. M.U.S.I.C.Computer Recycling Program
1633 Broadway Ave.
Lorain, OH 44052
Phone: 1-216-244-5604
4. PCology Computers for Kids
735 Cambridge Ave.
Youngstown, OH
Phone: 1-330-782-9384
5. Project dERE, Inc.
3985 N. Osage, Dt.
Gahanna, OH 4424
Phone: 1-330-686-6570
OREGON
CyberLynx
P.O.Box 785
Coos Bay, OR 97420
Phone: 1-541-888-4032
PENNSYLVANIA
Goodwill Computer Recycling Center
2600 E. Carson St.
Pittsburg, PA 15203
Phone:1-412-481-9005 Ext.353
SOUTH CAROLINA
1. Fast Forward(computer loan program)
United Way of the Midlands
1800Main St.
Columbia, SC 29202
Phone:1-803-733-5422
2. Clothing, Furniture,and computer Bank
The coopertive Ministry
1928 Taylor St.
Columbia, SC 29202
Phone: 1-803-799-3853
TEXAS
1. Compute Recycling for Education & Community Enhancing Resources
P.O. Box 792504
San Antonio, TX 78279
Phone:1-210-675-1810
2. Dallas Area Technology Alliance
Phone: 1-214-740-4703
3. Goodwill Computer works
8701-A Research Blvd.
Austin, kTX 78758
Phone: 1-512-835-8839
4. House of Unity Ministries
6805 Circle S Rd.
Austin, TX 78745
Phone: 1-979-775-8344
5. Nehemiah Community Development Corporation
211 S. Walnut St.
Sherman, TX 75090
Phone: 1-903-813-1642
6. Technology for All
1000 Louisiana, Suite 3600
Houston, TX77002
Phone: 1-713-652-5750 Ext. 141
VERMONT
1. Assistive Technology Recycling Project/Recycling North
266 Pine St. Burlington, VT 05402
Phone: 1-802-658-4143
2. The Cure Network, Inc.
P.O. Box 11092
Arlington, VA 22210
Phone: 1-703-522-1921
VIRGINIA
1. Christian Heriage Ministries Internationa, Inc.
7920 Flamingo Dr.
Alexandria, VA 22306
Phone: 1-703-799-1781
2. Center for Computer Redistribution, Inc.
(for persons with Disablities)
P.O. Box 70001
Richmand, VA 23255
Phone: ?
3. Chapter and Verse Ministries, Inc. (Lends coputers to residents in local nursing homes and care faclities)
4840 Kennebeck Ave.
Norfolk, VA 23513
Phone:1-757-714-3133
WASHINGTON
1. Computer Bank Charity
15062B 15th Ave.,NE
Seattle , WA98155
Phone:1-206-631-0894
2. Easter Seal Society of Wshington-Eastern Washington
W. 606 Sharp
Spokane, WA 99201
Phone: 1-509-328- 9350
3. EWAT Computer Loan Program (for disabled persons)
W. 606 Sharp
Spokane, WA 99201
Phone: 1-509-326-8292
4. RE. PC
510 Andover Park West
Tukwila, WA 98188
Phone:1-206-623-9151
I want to appolgize for any missing addresses, phone numbers, etc. I copied them right out of the book and that's all they gave.They were more interested in looks than content would be my guess.
Feb 29, 2008
I do not have any pictures of me as I am embarassed to smile because of my teeth.
All of my "teeth" are rotted so badly that I just have "pieces" of teeth. I have a lot of infection in my body as the teeth are infected and spreading it throughout.
I would have to have dental surgery as they'd have to cut my gums open to extract the roots. I am a heart patient and would have to have penicillin before and after treatment and would have to be put "out" under anesthesia.
I am on a fixed income...SSI and on medicaid (which only covers 21 and younger) and I am 60 years old and cannot afford dental insurance.
Are there any dental surgeons in Houston,TX that would work out a payment plan with me or any low-cost dental insurance that would allow a dental surgeon to do full extractions under anesthesia?
Sep 16, 2005
I am a single mother with a 16 year old daughter. She is in her senior year in high school and all of her life I have pushed the dream of college on her. I had hoped that by the time she was ready for college I would be in a better financial situation. That is not the case. There is no way I can afford to pay for or even take out loans for tuition for my daughter. Since we have a few more weeks before we have to start applying for financial aid, I am uncertain as to what she will qualify for. I don't make that much money, and I am always in debt. I keep 2 steps ahead of the collection agencies for the most part, but a few of my bills have headed there. My car is about to breakdown and we live in a rural area where I have to have a car to get to work and my daughter will need one as well just to get to college. Transportation, housing, tuition, books, supplies..... It keeps me up nights with worry. She's not a bad student, although not straight A's. Her goal is to be a high school guidance counselor. She wants to work with teenagers.
What is out there that we can apply for?
