STD Testing in Holly Grove, AR: Free, Same-Day & Confidential
In Monroe County, Arkansas, about 522 gonorrhea cases per 100,000 residents are reported. If you are in Holly Grove, Arkansas, and are getting tested before starting a new relationship or as part of ongoing care, consider whether you prefer clinics that may bill insurance or private labs that use a flat self-pay price. See the list below for options.
6 testing options are listed for Holly Grove, AR. The nearest, Mid-Delta Health Systems - North, is about 9.0 miles away. Compare 3 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.
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Community health center 9.0 miles
Mid-Delta Health Systems - North
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 from 24 reviews
Mid-Delta Health Systems - North, in Clarendon, earned its federal qualification by committing to sliding-scale fees tied directly to income: making syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia screening reachable for cash-paying patients, rural residents, and anyone navigating gaps between providers. Walk-ins are welcome.
Mid-Delta Health Systems in Clarendon tests for gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, herpes, hepatitis, and HIV on a sliding-scale fee open to everyone; appointments are required, and bacterial infections can be treated the same visit. PrEP and PEP are both available here.
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Tenofovir-Based PrEP Prescribed and Monitored Here
Mid-Delta Health Systems carries PrEP, typically tenofovir-based daily oral medication, as an ongoing prescribing service, which means the follow-up labs and dosing continuity that PrEP requires stay inside the same clinic. PEP is also available for prevention, giving the practice a full pharmacological prevention toolkit.
Substance-Use Treatment Shares a Roof with STI Care
The overwhelming majority of STI clinics treat the infection and nothing else, leaving patients to navigate a separate system for substance-use care. Mid-Delta Health Systems in Clarendon breaks that pattern by folding substance-abuse treatment into the same practice, so those two intertwined health issues don't require two separate care relationships.
Herpes and Hepatitis Testing Beyond the Standard Four
For anyone without a regular primary-care provider, or paying cash and wanting to consolidate testing in one visit, Mid-Delta's panel covers herpes and hepatitis A, B, and C alongside the bacterial and HIV tests, so gaps that a narrower clinic would leave unaddressed are answered here in a single appointment.
Listing verified Mar 2026 · Source: CDC NPIN + HRSA
Community health center 9.2 miles
Baptist Health Hospitals
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A safety-net rural health clinic about 9 miles from Holly Grove. Sliding-scale STD testing and care are typical here, call ahead to confirm the exact panel and pricing.
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 about 9 miles away; if you'd rather skip the trip, an at-home kit ships to Holly Grove, 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 (opens in a new tab) 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
$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.
Local clinicians
Clinicians near Holly Grove, AR who may help arrange STD testing
Beyond dedicated clinics, 20 primary-care, OB-GYN, infectious-disease and other clinicians have a CMS practice record within 30 miles of Holly Grove. They may be able to evaluate symptoms or order a confidential STD panel during a regular visit.
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 Holly Grove, AR
No pharmacy near Holly Grove, AR publishes an STD-related service or holds a current CLIA testing certificate, so these are simply the closest. Contact a location directly to confirm counter hours, services, prices, and availability before visiting.
Showing the 5 closest pharmacies to Holly Grove, 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 Holly Grove, 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
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 Monroe County: the local picture
How reported STI rates in Monroe County, the county that includes Holly Grove, compare with Arkansas and U.S. averages, based on the most recent 2023 surveillance data. An estimated ~31% of residents are aged 15–34 (ACS), the age group with the highest reported chlamydia and gonorrhea rates nationally.
#7
#7 of 75 Arkansas counties for chlamydia, a higher rate than 91% of the state
Reported STD rates per 100,000, Monroe County vs Arkansas vs U.S.
Monroe CountyArkansasU.S.▲▼ = Monroe County vs the state average
Infection
Monroe County
Arkansas
United States
Chlamydia
967.463 cases▲ 67%
579.6
492.2
Gonorrhea
522.134 cases▲ 170%
193.4
179.5
Syphilis (P&S)
61.44 cases▲ 110%
29.2
15.8
Syphilis (early)
15.41 cases▼ 11%
17.3
16
Syphilis (late/unknown)
46.13 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 Monroe County over time (per 100,000)
Chlamydia ▲ 4% vs 2022
Chlamydia Gonorrhea Syphilis (P&S)
Between 2020 and 2023 in Monroe County, chlamydia has risen from 794.2 to 967.4 per 100,000 (22%), gonorrhea has fallen from 544.2 to 522.1 per 100,000 (4%), and P&S syphilis has risen from 15 to 61.4 per 100,000 (309%).
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 Holly Grove, AR
Adults uninsured
11.8%
No routine checkup
16.9%
No transportation
13.1%
Binge drinking
10.7%
Frequent mental distress
18.6%
Depression
21.6%
Below poverty line
20.1%
Primary-care ratio
2,228 : 1
Monroe County
Primary-care shortage score 14 / 26
Medically Underserved Area · IMU 46
Social Vulnerability Index · 93rd 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 Monroe County.
Local HIV snapshot
HIV in Monroe 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
130 / 100k
PrEP users / 100k
130
Monroe County HIV care continuum (2021)
Monroe County recorded 0 new HIV diagnoses per 100,000 (2021), against 11.8 statewide and 13.7 nationally. Among Monroe County residents living with HIV, 14.3% are in care. 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 Monroe County tests for syphilis.
Source: CDC NCHHSTP AtlasPlus, 2023 (county-level congenital syphilis is not published).
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Highway 49 cuts through Holly Grove as the practical path to anywhere, and for a clinic visit, that drive is the first real variable in whether screening happens at all, because nothing on this page is walking distance. For nearly half of residents renting here, where a $428 monthly payment leaves little slack for unexpected costs, the options listed on this page represent access that depends on gas, a free afternoon, and a schedule that cooperates. That schedule pressure is real. With labor-force participation below six in ten adults and unemployment running notably high, the people who are working often hold jobs with irregular or inflexible hours. The kind where booking a weekday appointment means choosing between a paycheck and a health visit.
Younger adults in their late teens and twenties, a substantial portion of Holly Grove, are disproportionately in that position: newer to stable employment, likelier to be uninsured, and in the life stage where routine STI screening is most medically relevant. Monroe County's STI burden reflects exactly that reality. Holly Grove households lean toward families, an average size pushing nearly three people, with just under a third of adults married. For partnered residents managing a shared budget on modest home values, screening is less a personal errand than a household health decision, and the options listed here make that decision easier to act on.
Getting there
How residents reach STD testing in Holly Grove, AR
Walkability4.02 / 20 · Least walkable
At 4.02/20 on the EPA walkability index, day-to-day errands in Holly Grove 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 72069 snapshot
Residents
941
Median age
52
Median income
$47,155
ZIP-level Census figures for the wider 72069 area around Holly Grove: a single ZIP can span several communities, so they describe the area, not Holly Grove alone.
Holly Grove sits in Monroe County, ZIP 72069. Local context that shapes where residents test:
Local landmarks
Holly Grove Downtown Park
Lula Lula Coleman Tyler Park
Nearby cities & towns
Nearby cities and towns near Holly Grove, AR
Just outside Holly Grove? These nearby communities have their own testing guides: clinics, at-home kits, and free screening close to home.
STD testing in Holly Grove, AR: screening, costs & privacy
Everything to know before you test in Monroe 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 when
CDC 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 Holly Grove-area provider.
Medicare 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 Holly Grove 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 Arkansas
Minor 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.
