The Center for the Visually Impaired is a nonprofit in Midtown Atlanta that helps people of all ages who have vision loss. It offers low vision eye exams, classes to learn daily living skills, white cane travel and technology, programs for kids, and support groups. Fees are on a sliding scale, and most insurance is accepted.
Kirkwood Health Center is a Grady neighborhood clinic on Memorial Drive. It gives checkups and ongoing care to adults and children. It also has eye care, women's health, counseling, lab and X-ray services, and a pharmacy in the same building.
The Correll Pavilion is a Grady Health building at 80 Gilmer St. SE in downtown Atlanta. It holds outpatient centers for cancer care, bone and joint care, eye care, surgery, rehabilitation and more. You can call the main Grady number to book an appointment.
Southside Medical Center is a nonprofit health center that has served Atlanta area families since 1967. The main center on Ridge Avenue offers care for children and adults, dental, eye care, counseling, and more. People without insurance may pay less based on their income and family size.
Mercy Care is a health center at 424 Decatur Street SE in Atlanta. It offers doctor visits, dental care, eye care, and mental health care in one place, and everyone is welcome no matter their insurance or income. People without insurance can pay on a sliding fee scale based on income, and walk-ins are welcome. Outreach teams also bring care to people living outside.
Southside Medical Center is a nonprofit community health center that has served metro Atlanta since 1967, with a main center on Ridge Avenue SW and about 18 locations in the area. It offers family medicine, children's care, women's health, dental, eye care, pharmacy, counseling and other specialty care. It takes Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance, and has a sliding fee scale based on income and family size for people without insurance.
Mercy Care is a health center group in Atlanta. It treats adults and children, and everyone is welcome no matter their insurance or income. Clinics offer doctor visits, dental and eye care, and mental health care, and outreach teams bring care to people living outside.
Mosaic Health Center, which used to be called Clarkston Community Health Center, is a local clinic for people without health insurance. You pay a small flat fee for visits, and medicine from the clinic's own pharmacy is free. The clinic also has specialty clinics, mental health care, and staff who can help you sign up for benefits like SNAP and Medicaid.
This is the Georgia Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Georgia's talking book and braille library, part of the National Library Service network. It lends audiobooks, braille books and special players for free to people who are blind, have low vision, have a reading disability like dyslexia, or cannot hold a book or turn pages. Books come by mail with free return postage, and the Atlanta library also takes walk-in visitors.
Georgia Pathways is a state website and set of programs for deaf and hard of hearing children and their families. It includes Georgia PINES, which gives free home visits to families of babies and toddlers with hearing or vision loss, and Georgia Mobile Audiology, which gives free hearing tests for children.
Georgia Eye Bank is a nonprofit eye bank in Sandy Springs and Atlanta. It recovers and prepares donated corneas and other eye tissue and provides it to surgeons for transplant surgery. It also supplies tissue for eye research, teaching and training.
Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation is a nonprofit in Chamblee that helps Georgians who have no insurance or little money get eye care. It offers eye exams and low-cost glasses at its Chamblee clinic, at mobile and school clinics, and through a tele-optometry program. It also helps arrange sight-saving eye surgery.
Mercy Care is a nonprofit health center that sends a mobile medical coach to different Atlanta locations so adults can get care close to home. Anyone 18 or older can get checkups, mental health support, and screenings for vision, blood pressure, and diabetes on the coach, no matter their ability to pay.
This is Grady Health's Camp Creek center in southwest Atlanta. It offers primary care for adults and children, eye care, heart care, women's health and pregnancy care, bone and joint care, and behavioral health. Lab work and imaging are on site, and you can also have a video visit.
Mercy Care Chamblee is a clinic on Peachtree Road. It offers adult and children's checkups, vaccines, dental care, eye care, and mental health care in one place. Walk-ins are welcome, and there is a sliding fee scale based on income.
Vision Rehabilitation Services of Georgia helps people of all ages who are blind or have low vision learn to live on their own. A low-vision eye doctor checks how you use your sight, and then the team builds a plan. The plan can include daily living skills, safe travel, computer tools, job readiness, and counseling.
Neighborhood Union Health Center is a Fulton County Board of Health clinic on Sunset Avenue in northwest Atlanta. It offers vaccines, WIC, women's health and family planning, sexual health testing and PrEP, teen health services, and a drug user health program called SafeWorks. It is a public health clinic, so it does not list full primary care, dental care or behavioral health treatment.
Central Outreach and Advocacy Center is a downtown Atlanta nonprofit that helps adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Staff help with IDs, birth certificates, Social Security cards, food stamps, Medicaid, SSI/SSDI, and job readiness classes. Partner groups also come on site for health care, eye clinics, and more.
Emmaus House is a nonprofit in the Peoplestown neighborhood of Atlanta. Its Lokey Help Center at 27 Haygood Ave SW gives out groceries and helps with rent and utility bills, Georgia ID vouchers, SNAP and Social Security applications, and more. It also runs summer reading, youth and family, job training, and case management programs.
The Urban Clinic of Atlanta is a free clinic for adults who have no health insurance and not much money. It offers regular doctor visits, care for long-term illness, lab tests, screenings, mental health support, and access to medicines. You must have an appointment, and you start by filling out the New Patient Form.
