FAQS
What is a Community Clinic?
How is Family Tree Clinic funded?
How Can I Help?
What Services Does Family Tree Clinic Provide?
What Educational Services Does Family Tree Clinic Provide?
What are Family Planning Services?
What Kinds of Medications and Supplies Can I Obtain Through FTC?
Who Does Family Tree Clinic Serve?
What Additional Patient Services Does Family Tree Clinic Provide?
What Will it Cost to Come to the Clinic?
Am I Eligible for Free Services?
Do I Need to be a Legal U.S. Resident to Come to Family Tree Clinic?
Do I Need an Appointment to be seen at FTC?
What health insurance plans do you accept?
What is the Clinic’s service area?
Can I bring someone with me to my appointment?
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What is a Community Clinic?
Community clinics help people who would otherwise not have access to health care. They charge patients a fee based on their income and ability to pay. Community clinics focus their healthcare services to provide the best care for uninsured, underinsured, working poor, high-risk, and vulnerable populations. Basically, we help people who are often ignored by larger medical institutions.
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How is Family Tree Clinic funded?
Patient fees, the State of Minnesota, Hennepin County, private foundation grants, and individual donations.
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How Can I Help?
Become a patient! If you have health insurance or can pay out-of-pocket, you can utilize the services of the clinic and help offset the costs of those who are unable to pay. It’s a great way to get quality reproductive health care and give back to the community. Donate or volunteer! Both are excellent ways to support our critical and groundbreaking services.
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What Services Does Family Tree Clinic Provide?
We provide reproductive and sexual health services, as well as limited primary care (think Minute Clinic, but better). A full list of services can be found on our services page.
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What Educational Services Does Family Tree Clinic Provide?
Family Tree Clinic is committed to providing complete, accurate, factual, and developmentally appropriate information on human sexuality topics ranging from puberty to abstinence to contraception and pleasure.
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What are Family Planning Services?
Family planning is the utilization of pre-pregnancy services that involve preventing, spacing and achieving pregnancies, and assures that all people of reproductive age and their partners have access to services which allow them to have planned pregnancies and planned, healthy families.
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What Kinds of Medications and Supplies Can I Obtain Through FTC?
- Low cost birth control pills without an exam
- Over the counter emergency contraception
- Medications for treatment of sexually transmitted infections
- Medication for treatment of urinary tract infections, yeast infections, and other vaginal infections
- Medications for treatment of upper respiratory infections and skin conditions
- Condoms, including receptive or female condoms, and dental dams
- Low cost vibrators and lubricant
Who Does Family Tree Clinic Serve?
Everybody. But if you want to break it down, we serve teens and adults seeking confidential, affordable, quality reproductive and sexual health care services, including uninsured, underinsured, working poor, high-risk, and vulnerable populations.
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What Additional Patient Services Does Family Tree Clinic Provide?
Family Tree Clinic provides American Sign Language (ASL) and foreign language translation services upon request. Our clinic is wheelchair accessible.
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What Will it Cost to Come to the Clinic?
We offer a sliding fee scale, which means that the amount patients are charged for services is based on their income. We are also able to offer some free services to eligible patients.
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Am I Eligible for Free Services?
Many patients who come to Family Tree Clinic are eligible for The Minnesota Family Planning Program (MFPP), which provides free family planning services, including free birth control and yearly exams. Call us (612-473-0800) to find out if you are eligible!
Additionally, many uninsured and under-insured women ages 40 and older are eligible for free cervical and breast cancer screening services including breast checks, mammograms, and yearly exams through the Sage Screening Program.
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Do I Need to be a Legal U.S. Resident to Come to Family Tree Clinic?
No. Patients can receive services regardless of their residency status.
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Do I Need an Appointment to be seen at FTC?
Yes. However, we often have same and next-day appointments available. Give us a call or text us at 612-473-0800.
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What health insurance plans do you accept?
If you have insurance and you would like us to bill them for your visit we can certainly do that. We recommend you always check with your insurance provider to make sure they will cover visits at Family Tree Clinic. If coverage is through your parent’s policy, your parents will receive a copy of the charges from the insurance company.
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What is the Clinic’s service area?
Family Tree Clinic mainly serves the Twin Cities Metropolitan area as well as western Wisconsin and greater Minnesota. But we are able to serve anyone who walks through our doors.
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Can I bring someone with me to my appointment?
Yes, and in order to provide high-quality, comprehensive, and confidential care, it is our policy to see each patient alone for a portion of their visit. Patients are roomed by themselves and meet alone with the clinician or patient educator at the beginning of the visit. Once this process is complete, you can request to have your companion escorted to the exam room to join you.
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