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Tri State Community Health Center — Memphis, TN

Tri State Community Health Center is a community health center clinic at 3839 Lamar Ave, Memphis, TN 38118, open 40 hours a week. The typical Tennessee clinic is open 45 hours a week. It is run by Tri-State Community Health Center, which serves 4,185 patients across 2 clinic locations.

Address: 3839 Lamar Ave, Memphis, TN 38118 · Directions
Phone: (901) 505-0402
Weekly hours: 40 (Tennessee clinic median: 45)
Operated by: Tri-State Community Health Center (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 Tri State Community Health Center 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 Tri-State Community Health Center patients, 50% are uninsured, 23% have Medicaid or CHIP, 1% have Medicare and 26% have private insurance. Call (901) 505-0402 to book and ask about your plan. How sliding-fee pricing works.

Care and screenings at Tri-State Community Health Center

Patients came to Tri-State Community Health Center for these services in 2025. The numbers cover the whole health center, not only this clinic.

Service	Patients	What it counts
Dental care	1,123	patients had dental exams
Mental health care	575	patients treated for depression or anxiety
Substance use treatment	159	patients in treatment
Well-child visits	369	children had checkups
Flu shots	199	patients vaccinated
Cervical cancer screening	411	patients tested
Breast cancer screening	42	patients screened
Family planning	157	patients served
Diabetes care	302	patients with diabetes
Blood pressure care	760	patients with hypertension
Asthma care	88	patients with asthma
HIV testing	712	patients tested
Hepatitis C testing	492	patients tested

Tri-State Community Health Center also provides care by telehealth.

Who Tri-State Community Health Center serves

4,185 patients used Tri-State Community Health Center in 2025. 91% live at or below the poverty line and 100% are at or below twice the poverty line. 508 patients were experiencing homelessness and 29 were veterans.

Measure	This center	TN median	U.S. median	vs TN
Patients at or below the poverty line	91%	65%	65%	+26 pts
Patients at or below 200% of the poverty line	100%	95%	92%	+5 pts

Measure	This center	TN median	U.S. median	vs TN
Uninsured patients	50%	26%	14%	+24 pts
Medicaid or CHIP patients	23%	23%	42%	In line
Medicare patients	1%	13%	11%	−12 pts
Privately insured patients	26%	28%	24%	−2 pts

Quality of care at Tri-State Community Health Center

Tri-State Community Health Center is at or above the Tennessee median on 1 of 5 preventive-care measures. Higher is better on every line.

Measure	This center	TN median	U.S. median	vs TN
Adults with high blood pressure under control	47%	66%	68%	−19 pts
Women 24–64 screened for cervical cancer	46%	46%	54%	In line
Patients 12+ screened for depression	49%	86%	77%	−37 pts
Adults assessed for tobacco use	60%	89%	86%	−28 pts
High-risk adults on statin therapy	47%	78%	79%	−31 pts

Staffing at Tri-State Community Health Center

The health center employs 55 full-time-equivalent staff, including 7 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and midwives, 4 dental staff and 2 mental health staff. That is 576 patients per clinical provider against the Tennessee median of 813 and the U.S. median of 930. Patients made 19,682 visits, about 4.7 per patient.

Patients from ZIP 38118

1,656 Tri-State Community Health Center patients live in ZIP 38118, and 51% of them are uninsured. Other health centers also serve this ZIP:

Christ Community Health Services, Inc. — 4,307 patients from 38118
Memphis Health Center — 724 patients from 38118
Northeast Mississippi Health Care, Inc. — 50 patients from 38118
East Arkansas Family Health Center, Inc. — 22 patients from 38118

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