California
Shasta Community Health Center
Organization Profile
Established in 1988,
Shasta Community Health Center
is a private-non-profit community health center. We have now expanded to
employ 240 health professionals with five locations in Shasta County.
Dental services were established in 1998.
Shasta Community Health Center is a dynamic organization known for its team-oriented work environment. We provide quality health services in a caring and compassionate environment. We are dedicated to serving the underserved population in our community.
Our main center is located in
Redding, California
, where you can enjoy the best of city life and the great outdoors.
Redding has a population of 92,000 and is located in Northern California
right off Interstate 5. We are just a 2 hour drive form Sacramento, 3
hours to Reno, NV or Medford, OR, or a 3-1/2 hours from San Francisco or
the north coastline of Eureka, CA. Redding is known as a recreational
paradise. We offer a wonderful playground of an urban area with nearby
mountains, rivers, and lakes. Whatever your pleasure, from skiing to
sailing, you can find it here.
Dental site Profile
Our main dental center relocated to Shasta College’s brand new
Health Sciences Building
in Downtown Redding in January 2008. Our Redding center is an 11 chair
facility with 3 staff dentists, 2 hygienist, and 8 assistants. Our
Anderson Center
houses both medical and dental services with a 5 dental chair facility
with 1 staff dentist, 1 hygienist and 3 assistants. Our
Shasta Lake City Center
currently houses medical services and we have planned to open dental
services with 5 chairs in 2009. Our staff dentists are on faculty at UC
San Francisco as we are an extern site for their fourth year dental
student rotations. Our Dental Director is also the supervising DDS for the
Shasta College Dental Hygiene program which is housed in the same building
of our Redding facility.
Our focus here is on General Dentistry. Patients receive a broad range of general dentistry including restorative, oral surgery, endodontic, and prosthodontic care excluding orthodontics and implants. We serve all ages, however, our children patient population is approximately 40%. Our patient population is 74% insured with Medi-Cal and 10% Healthy Families and we offer a low income sliding fee discount.
Although our focus is on General Dentistry we have some additional experiences to offer. Having medical services in our organization we can offer the optional observational medical rotation. We have a Special Oral Health Improvement Program (SOHIP) that treats the developmental disabled population in the 9 counties of the North State. This SOHIP department also provided hospital dentistry under general anesthesia at the local community hospital of which we can offer you an optional observational rotation. We currently have a staff general dentist that provides advanced endodontic procedures, including molar endo, ½ half day a week who enjoys mentoring students and residents. We have a mobile van that provides dental services to the Homeless and to low income schools in the community.
Web-sites of interest
- Shasta Community Health Centers
- SCHC Youth Outreach
- Northern California Travel & Tourism Information
- City of Redding California
- Links to Education, Entertainment, Housing, and Shopping
- Asian Health Services
Contact Information
Dr. Huong N Le
DDS
Dental Director
510-986-6817
Cheryl Russo
RDH
Associate Dental Director
1 530 246 5854
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