STD Testing in Dardanelle, AR: Free, Same-Day & Confidential
Yell County reports about 45 syphilis cases per 100,000 residents, well above the US average. If you have had a recent risk or simply test on a regular schedule in Dardanelle Arkansas, clinics may bill insurance or offer sliding-scale fees, while many private labs might let you pay a flat self-pay price. See the options below.
9 testing options are listed for Dardanelle, AR. The nearest, Arkansas Department of Health, is about 0.2 miles away. Compare community and public clinics, private labs, and at-home kits below.
How to read these listings
Listings tagged Community health center are federally funded health centers and rural clinics that treat everyone regardless of insurance or ability to pay: required to bill on a sliding fee scale and provide confidential care, and in many states minors may consent to their own STI testing. A Title X tag flags centers funded for confidential family-planning services; confirm current participation when you call.
Source: CMS FQHC & Rural Health Clinic enrollment files (data.cms.gov), refreshed quarterly. Title X status reflects the latest OPA grantee list.
Closest to you 0.2 miles
Arkansas Department of Health
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Arkansas Department of Health in Dardanelle tests for HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, and hepatitis C, treats bacterial infections the same visit, and covers hepatitis A and B vaccination: all on a sliding-scale fee accepted alongside Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance. Appointments required.
A community safety-net rural health clinic in Dardanelle. Sliding-scale STD testing and care are typical here, call ahead to confirm the exact panel and pricing.
Address
1176 State Highway 22 West Suite B, Dardanelle, AR 72834
A community safety-net rural health clinic about 4 miles from Dardanelle. Sliding-scale STD testing and care are typical here, call ahead to confirm the exact panel and pricing.
Address
1605 West Main St Suite 2719, Russellville, AR 72801
ARcare in Russellville earned its federal qualification by tying fees directly to what patients can afford, no one is turned away for inability to pay. Walk-ins can access sliding-scale screening for syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia without an appointment.
Healthy Connections in Russellville tests for gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, and HIV on a sliding-scale fee, with appointments required; same-visit treatment is available for bacterial STIs, and HPV and hepatitis A and B vaccines round out the visit.
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PrEP and PEP Available Directly at Healthy Connections
Leaving Healthy Connections without a prevention plan means finding another prescriber, then another appointment, then another wait. A gap that quietly compounds. PrEP is available on-site, including for uninsured patients, and PEP is prescribed here, so the full prevention conversation and the prescription resolve in the same place.
Substance-Use Treatment Runs Alongside STI Care
Healthy Connections provides substance-use treatment within the same clinical setting as STI care, which means a patient managing both doesn't need to coordinate two separate care relationships. Follow-through on treatment tends to hold together when the support structure does too.
Beyond the dedicated testing centers above: at-home kits by mail, hospital labs certified for STI testing, local clinicians who can order a panel during a regular visit, pharmacies for self-test kits and prescriptions, and online PrEP & treatment.
The nearest testing center is less than a mile away, if you'd rather skip the trip, an at-home kit ships to Dardanelle, you collect the sample privately, and mail it back to a CLIA-certified lab. Results come online in days, with a clinician available if anything is positive. Same labs as a clinic, no waiting room, and you can read how accurate at-home STD tests are before you order.
Want a free option first? The CDC-supported TakeMeHome program mails free at-home HIV self-test kits, and, in many areas, free STI kits, to your door, with no insurance or payment needed. The paid kits below add broader panels and faster turnaround.
In-home collection
Quest Diagnostics
$79 & up
Panel:
8-infection panel incl. chlamydia, gonorrhea, HIV, syphilis, hepatitis & herpes: single tests too
Sample:
Quest Mobile: a phlebotomist collects your sample at home
Every kit uses CLIA-certified labs. At-home testing is for screening; a reactive result should be confirmed and treated by a clinician. Prices and panels shown are illustrative and change often, confirm current details on the provider's site.
Also in the area
Other CLIA-certified labs near Dardanelle, AR
Beyond the public testing sites above, these federally certified (CLIA) labs serve Yell County, each lab's town is shown on its card below. Many test through a doctor's order or by appointment rather than walk-in, so call ahead to confirm STD/STI testing and availability before visiting.
Source: CMS CLIA registry (Provider of Services), Q1 2026. Federal public records: active CLIA-certified laboratories near Dardanelle. A CLIA certificate records only that a laboratory is federally certified — it does not confirm the site performs STD testing, nor its hours, price or access. Inclusion is not an endorsement; always call to verify.
Local clinicians
Clinicians near Dardanelle, AR who may help arrange STD testing
Beyond dedicated clinics, 44 primary-care, OB-GYN, infectious-disease and other clinicians have a CMS practice record within 30 miles of Dardanelle. They may be able to evaluate symptoms or order a confidential STD panel during a regular visit, and 5 offer telehealth.
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Allan Kirkland, MD Telehealth
Family medicine · 1652 State Hwy 22 West, Dardanelle
These are registry-listed clinicians, not dedicated STD-testing clinics. CMS records do not independently verify current licensure, testing services, availability, price, or new-patient status. Confirm each detail before booking. Source: CMS Doctors & Clinicians.
Nearby pharmacies
Pharmacies near Dardanelle, AR
Compare the pharmacies closest to Dardanelle, AR. Contact a location directly to confirm pharmacy-counter hours, services, prices, and product availability before visiting.
Showing the 5 closest pharmacies to Dardanelle, AR.
Directory records identify nearby pharmacies. Service, stock, price, and hours information is shown only when supported by current location-specific evidence.
Prevention & treatment
PrEP, prevention & online treatment
Testing is one step. For residents of Dardanelle, telehealth covers the rest: HIV-prevention medication (PrEP) and DoxyPEP to lower future risk, and discreet online treatment if a result comes back positive. All prescribed by licensed U.S. clinicians.
Online treatment
Nurx
Visit from $0 insured
Telehealth STI treatment and sexual-health care, delivered or to your pharmacy
Pricing varies by insurance and changes often, confirm on the provider's site. These services are not a substitute for emergency care.
STD stats & rates
STDs & HIV in Yell County: the local picture
How reported STI rates in Yell County, the county that includes Dardanelle, compare with Arkansas and U.S. averages, based on the most recent 2023 surveillance data. An estimated ~27% of residents are aged 15–34 (ACS), the age group with the highest reported chlamydia and gonorrhea rates nationally.
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#51 of 75 Arkansas counties for chlamydia, a higher rate than 32% of the state
Reported STD rates per 100,000, Yell County vs Arkansas vs U.S.
Yell CountyArkansasU.S.▲▼ = Yell County vs the state average
Infection
Yell County
Arkansas
United States
Chlamydia
299.360 cases▼ 48%
579.6
492.2
Gonorrhea
64.913 cases▼ 66%
193.4
179.5
Syphilis (P&S)
44.99 cases▲ 54%
29.2
15.8
Syphilis (early)
102 cases▼ 42%
17.3
16
Syphilis (late/unknown)
49.910 cases▲ 4%
48
29.5
Rates per 100,000 population, 2023. Source: CDC NCHHSTP AtlasPlus (county, state & U.S., all-ages basis). Population figures: U.S. Census Bureau ACS. These figures are the latest available surveillance estimates. Bars are scaled to the highest rate shown.
Reading these numbers: reported case rates only count infections that were actually tested for and diagnosed, so they track local screening effort as much as true spread: a higher rate can reflect more testing, a lower one less. Either way, most STIs cause no symptoms, so treat the figures above as context rather than a verdict, and test on the CDC's schedule regardless of how your area looks.
Reported STD rates in Yell County over time (per 100,000)
Chlamydia ▼ 11% vs 2022
Chlamydia Gonorrhea Syphilis (P&S)
Between 2020 and 2023 in Yell County, chlamydia has risen from 261.6 to 299.3 per 100,000 (14%), gonorrhea has fallen from 108.6 to 64.9 per 100,000 (40%), and P&S syphilis has risen from 4.9 to 44.9 per 100,000 (816%).
The 2020 dip reflects reduced pandemic-era screening, not lower transmission. Source: CDC NCHHSTP AtlasPlus (county, state & U.S., all-ages basis).
Community health context
What shapes testing access in and around Dardanelle, AR
Adults uninsured
14.5%
No routine checkup
22.6%
No transportation
9.3%
Binge drinking
14.5%
Frequent mental distress
18.4%
Depression
24.9%
Below poverty line
8.1%
Primary-care ratio
1,680 : 1
Yell County
Primary-care shortage score 16 / 26
Medically Underserved Area · IMU 56.2
Social Vulnerability Index · 77th percentile nationally
Sources: CDC PLACES (ZIP), County Health Rankings, CDC/ATSDR SVI, HRSA HPSA, HRSA MUA/P, Neighborhood Atlas ADI. Lower insurance coverage, fewer routine checkups, and a thin primary-care ratio all raise the value of low-cost public clinics and at-home testing in Yell County.
Local HIV snapshot
HIV in Yell County (2023)
Federal priority area: Arkansas is one of the U.S. jurisdictions prioritized under the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative: targeted federal funding to expand local HIV testing, PrEP, and prevention.
People living with HIV
60 / 100k
PrEP users / 100k
78
Yell County HIV care continuum (2021)
Yell County recorded 29.8 new HIV diagnoses per 100,000 (2021), against 11.8 statewide and 13.7 nationally. Early, routine testing is what moves these numbers: it is the entry point to PrEP, treatment, and viral suppression.
Sources: AIDSVu (Emory/Gilead) · CDC AHEAD · CDC AtlasPlus · CDC NCHHSTP AtlasPlus (county care continuum). The CDC recommends everyone aged 13–64 test for HIV at least once: every lab and clinic listed above offers HIV testing, and free rapid HIV testing is available at a local health department.
Pregnant or planning to be?Congenital syphilis is the fastest-rising STI: what to test, and when
Congenital syphilis, passed from parent to baby in pregnancy, is the fastest-rising STI in the country. U.S. cases climbed from 2,163 in 2020 to 3,882 in 2023. It is almost entirely preventable: the CDC recommends a syphilis test at the first prenatal visit, and every clinic and lab listed for Yell County tests for syphilis.
Source: CDC NCHHSTP AtlasPlus, 2023 (county-level congenital syphilis is not published).
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The Pine Knob Mountain Bike Skills Park sits on the edge of a town where households run large and budgets run lean: nearly half of Dardanelle's residents rent, and typical monthly rent leaves little cushion for unexpected medical costs. That financial reality shapes how people think about healthcare appointments: a visit that carries even a modest fee gets weighed carefully when high-earner households are scarce and unemployment is meaningfully elevated. For younger adults in their late teens and twenties, a real slice of this community, that calculus can quietly delay a routine screening that should be straightforward. Households here average more than three people, often with shared vehicles and work schedules that don't bend easily, so the options listed in and around Dardanelle that offer extended or weekend hours matter more than they might elsewhere.
With unemployment at a level that means some residents have time but not coverage, low-cost and sliding-scale availability becomes the practical hinge. Latimore Tourist Home anchors the older residential heart of town. If you're starting from that part of Dardanelle, the clearest next step is pulling up the clinic list here, filtering by fee, and calling ahead to confirm same-week availability before the drive.
Getting there
How residents reach STD testing in Dardanelle, AR
Walkability5.9 / 20 · Below average
At 5.9/20 on the EPA walkability index, day-to-day errands in Dardanelle generally mean driving: plan on a car or rideshare to reach a clinic, and check each listing's hours and phone before you go.
Source: EPA National Walkability Index 2021.
ZIP 72834 snapshot
Residents
9,908
Median age
39.7
Median income
$63,191
ZIP-level Census figures for the wider 72834 area around Dardanelle: a single ZIP can span several communities, so they describe the area, not Dardanelle alone.
Dardanelle sits in Yell County, ZIP 72834. Local context that shapes where residents test:
Local landmarks
Confederate Memorial Park & Pine Knob Mountain Bike Skills Park
Latimore Tourist Home
W.J. White House
William H. Norwood House
Lake Dardanelle State Park
Dardanelle Confederate Monument
Major routes
AR 7 (Union Street)
Nearby cities & towns
STD testing near Dardanelle, AR
Just outside Dardanelle? These nearby communities have their own testing guides: clinics, at-home kits, and free screening close to home.
STD testing in Dardanelle, AR: screening, costs & privacy
Everything to know before you test in Yell County: the CDC's screening guidelines, each infection's detection window, per-test reference prices, and your privacy rights under Arkansas law. If you have symptoms right now, our confidential symptom checker maps them to the tests worth considering.
Who should test, and whenCDC screening schedule + each infection's detection window
Who should get tested, and how often
Based on current CDC screening recommendations.
Group
Tests
How often
Everyone aged 13–64
HIV
At least once
Sexually active women under 25
Chlamydia, gonorrhea
Every year
Women 25+ with new or multiple partners
Chlamydia, gonorrhea
Every year
Pregnant people
HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B & C, chlamydia
Early in pregnancy
Gay & bisexual men (MSM)
Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, HIV
Every 3–6 months
Anyone who shares injection equipment
HIV, hepatitis B & C
At least yearly
All adults at least once
Hepatitis C
At least once
When to test: STD detection windows
Testing too early can return a false negative, confirm timing with a Dardanelle-area provider.
What each STD test costsMedicare reference prices per lab test, a benchmark before you pay out of pocket
These are the federal Medicare reference prices for processing each lab test. Public clinics and the community health centers serving Dardanelle often test free or on a sliding scale; private labs and at-home kits bundle several tests into one fee. Use this as a per-test benchmark before you pay out of pocket, or see the full guide to STD test costs for insurance, free, and at-home options.
Test
Reference price
CPT / HCPCS
Chlamydia (NAAT)
$47.80
87491
Gonorrhea (NAAT)
$47.80
87591
Trichomoniasis (NAAT)
$47.76
87661
HIV-1/2 antigen/antibody
$26.87
87389
HIV-1/2 antibody
$22.44
86703
Syphilis (RPR/VDRL)
$5.61
86592
Syphilis (treponemal antibody)
$17.49
86780
Herpes (HSV NAAT)
$47.76
87529
Hepatitis B surface antigen
$15.33
87340
Hepatitis C antibody
$29.16
86803
Source: Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, CMS, 2025 rates (data.cms.gov). Reference rate for the lab assay only: a clinic visit, sample collection, or a bundled multi-test panel may cost more. Medicaid and most insurers cover STD screening at no out-of-pocket cost.
Confidentiality & consent in ArkansasMinor consent and partner treatment (EPT) under state law, plus how to test privately
Two things that actually depend on Arkansas law: who can consent, and whether partners can be treated without their own visit. Everything else about testing privately is the same nationwide (see below).
Can a minor consent on their own?
In Arkansas, a minor of any age can consent to confidential STI testing and treatment on their own, no parental permission is required.
Can my partner be treated too? (EPT)
Arkansas permits Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT): if you test positive for chlamydia or gonorrhea, your provider can give you medication (or a prescription) to pass to your partner, no separate exam or appointment needed for them.
Keeping a test private works the same in every state. Whether an STD test shows on insurance (the EOB), how to test anonymously, and self-pay options that leave no insurance trail don’t change by location.
