Free & Low-Cost Clinics in South Gate, CA

Who runs these clinics

6 health-center organizations run the 20 clinics in South Gate. Figures are each organization's own federal report for all its sites (HRSA UDS 2025), not this city alone.

• Altamed Health Services Corporation — 10 sites here, 129 in total. 312,739 patients in 2025, 6% uninsured; 48% of patients had limited English.
• Yehowa Medical Services — 5 sites here, 9 in total. 5,169 patients in 2025, 11% uninsured.
• Cali Med Corporation — 2 sites here, 8 in total.
• Comprehensive Community Health Centers INC — 1 site here, 8 in total. 46,871 patients in 2025, 6% uninsured; 45% of patients had limited English.
• Complete Care Community Health Center, INC. — 1 site here, 16 in total. 26,329 patients in 2025, 11% uninsured; 15% of patients had limited English.
• Via Care Community Health Center — 1 site here, 22 in total. 26,073 patients in 2025, 17% uninsured; also provided dental, mental health, substance use care; 49% of patients had limited English.

Health centers near South Gate

• Lynwood (8) · 1 mi
• Cudahy (2) · 1 mi
• Bell Gardens (10) · 2 mi
• Bell (1) · 2 mi
• Huntington Park (21) · 3 mi
• Maywood (4) · 3 mi
• Compton (9) · 4 mi
• Downey (7) · 4 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

South Gate 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 South Gate specifically:

• 17,773 patients living in ZIP code 90280 were seen at federally funded health centers in 2025; 8% of them had no insurance.
• 8 of 20 are school-based sites — these usually see enrolled students first, so call before going if you're not a student.
• 8 of 20 are mobile clinics — call to find where and when they stop.
• 5 of 20 are open only part of the year.
• 20 of 20 clinics list a direct phone number you can call ahead.
• 10 of 20 clinics list a website.
• 2 of 20 are part of a program that reports dental services in federal UDS data (program-level, not per-site — call to confirm dental is offered at this address).
• Reported weekly hours: 11 clinics report 40+ hrs/week, 2 report 20–39 hrs/week, 7 report under 20 hrs/week.
• Provider types on file with the federal NPI registry for clinics in South Gate: Pharmacy, Community/Retail Pharmacy (1). Confirmed only where the registry record's name matches the clinic with high confidence — call to verify what a specific site offers.