Community Care Network of Kansas
Our Mission
Our mission is to strengthen, support, and represent our network of members in transforming the communities they serve through equitable access to high-quality, whole person care.
Our Vision
All Kansans achieving and maintaining their ideal health.
What We Do
We are a statewide association made up of a network of community member health centers and clinics. Our member clinics service 1 in 10 Kansans in over 1 million visits a year. The members serve as the community resource at the local level, dedicated to ensuring the best medical, dental and behavioral care is available to all.
Who Are Community Care Members?
Community Care represents a diverse network of members that provide direct patient care. Our members, community health centers and clinics, provide comprehensive, whole-person care to their patients. We believe in proactive, preventive, and inclusive healthcare that prioritizes community well-being.
Community Care Member Clinics offer essential medical, dental, vision, and behavioral health services across Kansas. Funded by a combination of patient fees, fundraising, and grants, these clinics are often one of the largest employers in their communities.
Community Care is leading the state to rethink what healthcare means. Community Care Member Clinics are champions of whole-person, comprehensive care. Together we are advocates, educators, providers, patients, and innovators, aligned in the belief that we must not separate the minds, bodies, and smiles of our communities.
Dental Clinics
Dental Clinics provide primary dental care services regardless of patient ability to pay or insurance coverage, on a sliding fee scale.
Donation-Based Clinics
Donation-Based Clinics provide primary medical care to uninsured, low-income patients only. Some provide dental, behavioral and specialty care. These clinics ask for a donation in exchange for services.
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)
Federally Qualified Health Centers are community-based nonprofit or public organizations that provide services in situations where healthcare is difficult to access, such as for people without insurance and/or living in rural and underserved areas. FQHCs utilize a sliding fee scale and receive federal grant funding under Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. FQHC Look- Alikes must meet all the requirements of a health center; however, they do not receive any federal funding. Find an FQHC near you.
Local Health Departments
Local Health Departments are a government agency that provides public health services to a community. They are responsible for promoting health and preventing disease.
Primary Care Clinics
Primary Care Clinics serve patients with or without private insurance and recipients of KanCare and Medicare. Clinics provide primary medical care to all, regardless of ability or pay, and utilize a sliding fee scale. Some provide dental and behavioral health care.
Rural Health Clinics
Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) are public, private or non-profit clinics located in rural, underserved areas. These clinics offer primary care and preventative health services.
Healthy People Make Healthy Communities
Our state is stronger when the people who live in, serve, and represent our communities have access to the best healthcare available. Healthy people make communities healthy, and Community Care clinics exist to provide whole-person, comprehensive care, regardless of ability to pay. Kansans can take comfort in knowing that personal health doesn’t have to be pushed to its limits before seeking services – that it can be proactive, preventive and wholly inclusive.
All Kansas Deserve Access to Quality Health Care
Community Care is the trusted brand to create broad and lasting change within the Kansas healthcare system. We
support a network of clinics with thought leaders, innovators and champions focused on improved patient experience, population health, reduced healthcare cost, provider experience, and well-being.