Healthfirst Bluegrass

HealthFirst Bluegrass (also listed separately as "HealthFirst Bluegrass - Southland Drive Clinic") is located at 496 Southland Drive in the Picadome neighborhood of Lexington, Kentucky — a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving south-central Lexington's community health needs at this ZIP 40503 location. HealthFirst Bluegrass is a nonprofit FQHC network founded in 1979 that operates multiple clinics across the central Kentucky Bluegrass region, providing comprehensive primary care, dental, behavioral health, and pharmacy services on a sliding-fee-scale model calibrated to patient household income — meaning dental services are accessible to uninsured, underinsured, and Medicaid-enrolled patients at fees substantially below private-practice market rates. The 496 Southland Drive address in the Picadome neighborhood of southwest Lexington appears in both the "Healthfirst Bluegrass" listing and the named "HealthFirst Bluegrass - Southland Drive Clinic" listing — these are the same location recorded under two slightly different names in the clinic database. Southland Drive is a commercial street in southwest Lexington's ZIP 40503, parallel to the Nicholasville Road commercial spine in the Picadome and Southland Park neighborhoods.

HealthFirst Bluegrass at 496 Southland Drive provides dental care — alongside primary care and behavioral health services — for patients of all income levels in south-central Lexington and the surrounding Fayette County communities. Dental services at HealthFirst Bluegrass FQHC clinics typically include comprehensive oral examinations, dental cleanings, dental radiographs, restorative procedures (fillings, crowns), extractions, and dental referrals for patients who need specialist care beyond the scope of the FQHC dental team. The sliding-fee-scale model ensures that patients who lack dental insurance coverage or who have Medicaid dental benefits receive dental care at cost-adjusted fees, making HealthFirst Bluegrass one of Lexington's most accessible dental providers for working-poor and uninsured households. A second HealthFirst Bluegrass dental location operates at 650 Newtown Pike in Lexington's ZIP 40508, providing additional FQHC dental access on Lexington's northwest commercial corridor.

Patients seeking HealthFirst Bluegrass dental services should contact the Southland Drive clinic directly to confirm appointment availability, the dental scope offered at this location, sliding-fee-scale eligibility requirements, and whether new patient dental appointments are currently being accepted. The Lexington FQHC dental market is also served by Southland Dr's immediate neighborhood practices and by the University of Kentucky's dental school clinic on the UK Health Sciences Campus.

For south-central Lexington and Fayette County patients seeking sliding-fee-scale community dental care on Southland Drive, HealthFirst Bluegrass at 496 provides FQHC-model dental access in the Picadome neighborhood as part of central Kentucky's comprehensive federally qualified health center network.