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Services Offered

  • Medical Services: We provide comprehensive health care to people without access to care. The most common medical problems we address include diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma, and depression. We also offer specialty clinic consultations including cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, diabetes, nephrology, neurology, ophthalmology, physical therapy, podiatry, psychiatry, and women's health.
  • Mental Health Services: We provide psychiatric consultation, bilingual psychotherapy and other supportive services by a team of volunteer professionals that integrate cultural diversity and anti-fascism approaches.
  • Dental Services: Dental patients in need can contact the UCSD Student-Run Free Dental Clinic at office@ucsdpds.org. 
  • Pharmacy Services: Students and faculty from Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego work in tandem with our Patient Assistance Program (PAP) volunteers fill almost 28,000 free monthly prescriptions. Additionally, our pharmacy team provides immunization programs, medication education to our patients, and an excellent smoking-cessation program.
  • Food Prescription Project: In partnership with Feeding San Diego, we provide our patients with fresh produce and shelf stable foods. Since 2016, we have distributed over 400,000 lbs of food and significantly decreased food insecurity within our patients.
  • Acupuncture Clinic: Free Clinic Acupuncturist offers acupuncture services to interested patients in conjunction with the medical clinic.
  • Social and Community Service Referrals: Our social workers provide counseling for our patients in addition to helping them access other available services, including housing, access to health care, food, drug and alcohol addiction treatment, etc.
  • Legal Clinic: In partnership with California Western School of Law and attorneys from the community,  legal advice and referral services regarding issues such as immigration, family law, consumer law, and criminal law. Limited notary services are also available.
  • Health Counseling and Education: We provide counseling and health education on topics including first aid, nutrition, hepatitis, diabetes management, drug and alcohol addiction, smoking cessation, blood pressure surveillance, eye disease, mental health awareness, and preventive care. 
  • Promotoras: Wise community members who are often former patients, these individuals serve as "trust bridges" to the community and to our patients.