Free & Low-Cost Clinics in South Bend, IN

Who runs these clinics

3 health-center organizations run the 10 clinics in South Bend. Figures are each organization's own federal report for all its sites (HRSA UDS 2025), not this city alone.

• Indiana Health Centers Incorporated — 5 sites here, 22 in total. 38,853 patients in 2025, 11% uninsured; also provided dental, mental health, substance use care; 24% of patients had limited English.
• Healthlinc INC — 4 sites here, 16 in total. 56,646 patients in 2025, 13% uninsured; also provided dental, mental health, substance use, vision care.
• Bowen Health, INC. — 1 site here, 16 in total.

Health centers near South Bend

• Mishawaka (1) · 3 mi
• Niles, MI (1) · 11 mi
• Elkhart (5) · 15 mi
• Bremen (1) · 16 mi
• Cassopolis, MI (3) · 21 mi
• Dowagiac, MI (1) · 21 mi
• Goshen (6) · 22 mi
• Plymouth (1) · 22 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 Bend 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 Bend specifically:

• 15,721 patients living in the ZIP codes 46601, 46613, 46615, 46617, 46619, 46628 were seen at federally funded health centers in 2025; 12% of them had no insurance.
• 10 of 10 clinics list a direct phone number you can call ahead.
• 4 of 10 clinics list a website.
• 9 of 10 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: 7 clinics report 40+ hrs/week, 1 report 20–39 hrs/week, 2 report under 20 hrs/week.
• Provider types on file with the federal NPI registry for clinics in South Bend: Dentist (1), Family Medicine (1), Internal Medicine (1), Obstetrics & Gynecology, Obstetrics (1), Pediatrics (1), Nurse Practitioner, Family (1). Confirmed only where the registry record's name matches the clinic with high confidence — call to verify what a specific site offers.