It is our mission to facilitate access to health care for all with a focus on the needs of the uninsured. At Ithaca Free Clinic we offer 100% free conventional and holistic healthcare services for anyone without health insurance.

Ithaca Free Clinic is open to all uninsured members of our community. Our staff of volunteer physicians, herbalists, acupuncturists and others join with us in supporting the belief that access to health care is a right, and not a privelige. Ithaca Free Clinic is located at 225 South Fulton Street, Suite B in Ithaca, NY. (link to map) We're right next door to Agway of Ithaca, and upstairs from Gallagher's Electronics, Century21 Real Estate, and Soundworks.

We have twice weekly walk-in service hours at the clinic:
Mondays 2-6pm
Thursdays 4-8pm

If you have questions about IFC and our services, please feel free to call our Free Clinic Coordinator at 607-330-1254 or email her at clinic@ithacahealth.org.

Starting in Fall, 2008, the Ithaca Heatlh Alliance and the Ithaca College Occupational Therapy Department begin a new collaboration to provide free Occupational Therapy services at Ithaca Free Clinic. OT will be available by appointment, weekly. Our volunteer physicians, or other practitioners in the community, can make referrals for treatment throught the program starting immediately.

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Since the founding of the Ithaca Health Alliance in 1997, it was part of our dream to be able to provide free health services to anyone in need, here in our hometown of Ithaca, NY. After eight years of judicious saving of member contributions and other gifts, we decided that we had reached a point where the organization could afford to open a free clinic and also continue to support its other programs. Many volunteers from throughout our community worked very hard from the end of 2004 through 2005 to plan how the clinic would work, locate a space for the clinic, and find healthcare professionals who were able to volunteer to see patients. Other free clinics were visited, conversations with Tompkins County's primary care centers were held, and after a whirlwind year's worth of work, IFC opened its doors on January 23, 2007.

Since the beginning, Ithaca Free Clinic was planned as an integrated medical center where patients could receive both conventional medical care offered by physicians and nurse practitioners, and also seek care from holistic professionals so that our visitors had access to a healthy variety of choices in the healthcare they receive. We are proud to be one of the only medically integrated free clinics in the United States.

Although donations are welcomed at any time, no fees are ever charged for services at Ithaca Free Clinic. Anyone who is not insured for the service they seek at IFC can come to the clinic, free of charge. Although we cannot see patients with insurance, our staff can work with insured individuals to find primary care providers who can accept their insurance. Because our facilities are limited, there are some healthcare services we simply cannot provide in-house, and in many cases, patients will have to pay for these referral services (specialist visits, diagnostic procedures, immunizations, and some prescriptions). We try to work with our visitors to find the best options for necessary costs.

If you have a medical emergency, you should seek immediate care at the hospital, convenient care center, or other available option. IFC is not equipped as an emergency room, and many emergency situations cannot wait a few days until the next free clinic hours!