Free & Low-Cost Clinics in Palatka, FL

Who runs these clinics

One health-center organization runs the 4 clinics in Palatka. Figures are each organization's own federal report for all its sites (HRSA UDS 2025), not this city alone.

• Rural Health Care, Incorporated — 4 sites here, 15 in total. 37,074 patients in 2025, 14% uninsured; also provided dental, mental health care.

Health centers near Palatka

• Hastings (1) · 9 mi
• Crescent City (1) · 15 mi
• Interlachen (1) · 15 mi
• Green Cove Springs (1) · 24 mi
• Keystone Heights (1) · 24 mi
• Saint Augustine (1) · 24 mi
• St Augustine (1) · 25 mi
• Hawthorne (1) · 26 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

Palatka 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 Palatka specifically:

• 4,540 patients living in ZIP code 32177 were seen at federally funded health centers in 2025; 10% of them had no insurance.
• 1 of 4 is a mobile clinic — call to find where and when it stops.
• 4 of 4 clinics list a direct phone number you can call ahead.
• 4 of 4 clinics list a website.
• 4 of 4 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: 2 clinics report 40+ hrs/week, 1 report under 20 hrs/week, 1 doesn't report hours.
• Provider types on file with the federal NPI registry for clinics in Palatka: Clinic/Center, Community Health (2), Internal Medicine (1), General Practice (1). Confirmed only where the registry record's name matches the clinic with high confidence — call to verify what a specific site offers.