health & fitness
Salvus Center now offers dental services Although there is medical help for Sumner County residents who are uninsured, until now there has never been an affordable alternative for adult dental care. The Salvus Center, which provides low-cost medical services to uninsured working residents, recently opened its low-cost dental clinic one day a week in Gallatin. A partnership with several area dentists donating their time to the nonprofit has made this service possible. “We have started seeing patients on a limited basis, and this is exciting for us since we have been sending people to Nashville (for dental care),’’ said Shelley Ames, Salvus executive director. Ames said the patients now being seen at the dental clinic are those who have already been approved through the Salvus Center for medical care.
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“They have to be working and have no insurance,’’ Ames said. While all ages can get services at the dental clinic, Ames said, the majority of patients so far have been adults. “We don’t see many children, because they have access to TennCare,’’ she
said. The agency is using space in the basement of the Sumner County Health Department's Gallatin location. The area formerly served as a dental clinic funded through the state, but when those funds stopped, so did the clinic. For now, the Salvus den-
tal clinic is just doing extractions, Ames said. “I hope we can get to the position to save the teeth, but at this point we are just meeting those immediate needs,’’ Ames said. “We are probably seeing 40 patients a month. Right now, we are only open on Friday mornings, and we hope to expand that.’’ Local dentists donating their time to the Salvus clinic are Bill Taylor, Jayson Tabor, Jim Bevans, Andrew Cox and Scott Fischer of Hendersonville, and Gallatin dentists Steve Mays, Fernanda Hensley, Thomas Herring, Phillip Smith, Eric Schuh, Robert Glass, Richard Horwat, Thomas Herren and Graham Locke. Several foundations have stepped forward to help fund the new dental clinic, including the Memorial Foundation, the HCA Foundation, and the Baptist Healing Trust.
Retirement Centers Christian Manor I 100 Trident Place Hendersonville 824-9265
Highland Rim Terrace 100 Woodland Drive Portland 325-3245
Oakwood Village 2021 Oakwood Drive Westmoreland 644-3800
Morningside of Gallatin 1085 Hartsville Pike Gallatin 230-5600
Christian Manor II 100 Riviera Drive Hendersonville 824-9265
Pennington Place 202 Walton Ferry Road Hendersonville 822-7520
Long Hollow Terrace 3048 Long Hollow Pike Hendersonville 824-6889
Ameritus at Gallatin 400 Hancock St. Gallatin 451-7722
Christian Towers & The Manor 138 E. Franklin St. Gallatin 452-9363
Noles Home for the Aged 622 N. Water Ave. Gallatin 451-1450
Clearview Apartments 3318 U.S. 31W North White House 672-4494
The Terrace at Bluegrass 674 E. Main St. Hendersonville 824-4552
Park Place 31 Executive Park Drive Hendersonville 822-6002
Golden Living CommunityBrandywood 555 E. Bledsoe St. Gallatin 451-9483
White House Elderly Housing 306 Whitson Court White House 672-3023
McKendree Lambuth - Gallatin 1054 Hartsville Pike Gallatin 230-2267
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