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Northside Clinic at 6th Street — Fort Smith, AR

Northside Clinic at 6th Street is a community health center clinic at 3202 N 6th St, Fort Smith, AR 72904, open 40 hours a week. That matches the 40-hour week of a typical Arkansas clinic. It is run by River Valley Primary Care Services, which serves 30,508 patients across 15 clinic locations.

Address: 3202 N 6th St, Fort Smith, AR 72904 · Directions
Phone: (479) 783-3900
Website: www.rvpcs.org
Weekly hours: 40 (Arkansas clinic median: 40)
Operated by: River Valley Primary Care Services (federally qualified health center)
Care offered by this health center: primary care, dental care, mental health care, substance use treatment, children’s checkups, women’s health, and telehealth

Fees are on a sliding scale. What you pay at Northside Clinic at 6th Street depends on your income and household size, and the clinic bills Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance. Care is not free, and every patient is seen regardless of ability to pay. Among River Valley Primary Care Services patients, 16% are uninsured, 27% have Medicaid or CHIP, 17% have Medicare and 41% have private insurance. Call (479) 783-3900 to book and ask about your plan. How sliding-fee pricing works.

Care and screenings at River Valley Primary Care Services

Patients came to River Valley Primary Care Services for these services in 2025. The numbers cover the whole health center, not only this clinic.

Service	Patients	What it counts
Dental care	2,638	patients had dental exams
Mental health care	8,027	patients treated for depression or anxiety
Substance use treatment	72	patients in treatment
Well-child visits	2,061	children had checkups
Flu shots	953	patients vaccinated
Cervical cancer screening	725	patients tested
Breast cancer screening	370	patients screened
Family planning	614	patients served
Diabetes care	3,646	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	7,209	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	1,023	patients with asthma
HIV testing	4,715	patients tested
Hepatitis C testing	2,128	patients tested
Childhood lead tests	37	children tested

River Valley Primary Care Services also provides care by telehealth.

Who River Valley Primary Care Services serves

30,508 patients used River Valley Primary Care Services in 2025. 88% live at or below the poverty line and 96% are at or below twice the poverty line. 66 patients were experiencing homelessness and 244 were veterans.

Measure	This center	AR median	U.S. median	vs AR
Patients at or below the poverty line	88%	65%	65%	+24 pts
Patients at or below 200% of the poverty line	96%	89%	92%	+7 pts

Measure	This center	AR median	U.S. median	vs AR
Uninsured patients	16%	19%	14%	−3 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	27%	29%	42%	−2 pts
Medicare patients	17%	18%	11%	−2 pts
Privately insured patients	41%	36%	24%	+5 pts

Quality of care at River Valley Primary Care Services

River Valley Primary Care Services is at or above the Arkansas median on 5 of 7 preventive-care measures. Higher is better on every line.

Measure	This center	AR median	U.S. median	vs AR
Adults with high blood pressure under control	70%	73%	68%	−3 pts
Women 52–74 screened for breast cancer	58%	51%	54%	+6 pts
Women 24–64 screened for cervical cancer	40%	39%	54%	+1 pts
Adults 46–75 screened for colorectal cancer	49%	44%	44%	+5 pts
Patients 12+ screened for depression	62%	68%	77%	−6 pts
Adults assessed for tobacco use	98%	88%	86%	+10 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	78%	77%	79%	+1 pts

Staffing at River Valley Primary Care Services

The health center employs 177 full-time-equivalent staff, including 27 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives, 13 dental staff and 9 mental health staff. That is 1,114 patients per clinical provider against the Arkansas median of 780 and the U.S. median of 930. Patients made 91,724 visits, about 3.0 per patient.