Our free walk-in clinics are open for registration from 6:00-7:00pm in Spearfish on Monday evenings and Lead the 2nd & 4th Thursday nights to:

• Provide quality medical and emergency dental care to financially eligible Northern Hills residents (ages 19-64).
• Provide health care needs for those who do not have personal health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Health Services, or have insurance while meeting our eligibility requirements.
• Manage up to 15 medical care visits with 15 trained volunteers, and 2 health care providers.

Health care services provided by GSC proactively deter emergency room visits and costs. Over 50% of the GSC patients have serious chronic illnesses that if left untreated, would magnify their health care issues thus contributing to the even more significant costs to the community, jeopardizing their employment status as a family provider and live without a sense of hope.

For every American without health insurance, there are almost three times as many without dental insurance. GSC sees first-hand the need for dental services. Responding to this gap in care led to the decision to expand GSC’s services into emergency dental care. GSC’s past medical director, Forrest Brady, M.D., estimates that over 50% of GSC patients have unmet oral health care needs. Approximately 20% of those patients most likely experience chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, gum disease, risk of stroke and/or other inflammatory related illnesses due to poor dental health.

In partnership with 10 Northern Hills dental offices, the GSC Emergency Dental Care Program focuses on relieving patients’ pain, identifying the source of the pain, and eliminating oral infections. Since the initiation of the program in October 2015, over 1100 patients have received emergency dental care through GSC at an approximate value of $1M dollars.

Dental services provided at the Spearfish location only.