Half of Nashville Uninsured Don’t Know About Clinics, Study Says

A new study estimates that half of uninsured people in Nashville don’t know there’s low-cost healthcare available in the city. That’s according to a group that’s been analyzing the gap in health coverage, particularly for poor people, for the last 2 years.

The Nashville Safety Net Consortium says 20% of Nashville’s population gets healthcare from Safety Net clinics. There are about twenty of those located in Metro.

At the United Neighborhood Health Services Clinic on 12th South, Angel Herrero says he only heard about the clinic through word of mouth.

“Somebody told me that used to be here, a client here, he let me know about this place. It’s very good, this place. It’s very nice.”

In a statement, Metro health director Dr. William Paul said that the community could do a better job of informing people who are poor and uninsured about the clinics.