Free & Low-Cost Clinics in East Palo Alto, CA

Who runs these clinics

One health-center organization runs the 13 clinics in East Palo Alto. Figures are each organization's own federal report for all its sites (HRSA UDS 2025), not this city alone.

• South County Community Health Center, INC. — 13 sites here, 17 in total. 19,933 patients in 2025, 9% uninsured; 69% of patients had limited English.

Health centers near East Palo Alto

• Palo Alto (3) · 3 mi
• Atherton (2) · 4 mi
• Redwood City (7) · 6 mi
• Mountain View (2) · 6 mi
• Newark (1) · 7 mi
• Alviso (4) · 9 mi
• Sunnyvale (4) · 9 mi
• Fremont (23) · 10 mi

New to community health centers?

• How the sliding-fee scale works — and how to qualify
• What to bring to your first visit
• Getting care with no insurance

East Palo Alto at a Glance

Every clinic listed above is a federally funded community health center — it treats you with or without insurance, regardless of immigration status, and charges on a sliding-fee scale based on income. Here's what the HRSA and federal NPI registry data shows for East Palo Alto specifically:

• 9,550 patients living in ZIP code 94303 were seen at federally funded health centers in 2025; 6% of them had no insurance.
• 1 of 13 is a school-based site — these usually see enrolled students first, so call before going if you're not a student.
• 2 of 13 are mobile clinics — call to find where and when they stop.
• 13 of 13 clinics list a direct phone number you can call ahead.
• 4 of 13 clinics list a website.
• Reported weekly hours: 4 clinics report 40+ hrs/week, 4 report 20–39 hrs/week, 5 don't report hours.
• Provider types on file with the federal NPI registry for clinics in East Palo Alto: Clinic/Center, Primary Care (2), Clinic/Center, Dental (1), Case Management (1). Confirmed only where the registry record's name matches the clinic with high confidence — call to verify what a specific site offers.