I'll continue supporting all health centers in our community
Support community health centers in Kansas's Third District.
Occurrences
introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen rural hospital infrastructure and enhance patient care
Evidence
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $2.6 million to Health Partnership Clinic to expand access to primary care, dental care, and behavioral health services in the greater Kansas City area. The clinic will use the grant to keep locations staffed, sustain patient services, and maintain affordable care for underserved families in Kansas’ Third District. Davids said, 'I’ll continue supporting all health centers in our community.'
Representative Sharice Davids announced that HHS awarded $2.6 million to Health Partnership Clinic to expand access to primary care, dental care, and behavioral health services in the greater Kansas City area. The release says the clinic will use the grant to keep locations staffed, sustain patient services, and maintain affordable care for underserved families in Kansas’ Third District; Davids said she would continue supporting all health centers in the community.
Health Partnership Clinic states it is dedicated to affordable, accessible care regardless of ability to pay. It says it received designation as a Federally Qualified Health Center in 2012, receives HHS funding, is a Health Center Program grantee under 42 U.S.C. 254b, and serves uninsured and Medicaid/KanCare patients in Johnson, Miami, and Franklin counties.
The American Rescue Plan Act included Sec. 2601, Funding for Community Health Centers and Community Care, appropriating $7.6 billion for grants and cooperative agreements under section 330 of the Public Health Service Act and grants to federally qualified health centers. Congress.gov records H.R. 1319 became Public Law No. 117-2 on March 11, 2021.
The House Clerk records the March 10, 2021 vote on H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act, as passed 220-211. The roll call lists Davids (KS), Democratic, Kansas, voting Yea.
H.R. 5378 contained Title III, Supporting Patients, Health Care Workers, Community Health Centers, and Hospitals. Sec. 301 extended funding for community health centers, including $3.183 billion for January 20, 2024 through September 30, 2024, $4.4 billion for fiscal year 2025, and $1.109 billion for October 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025.
The House Clerk records the vote on H.R. 5378, the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, as passed 320-71. The roll call lists Davids (KS), Democratic, Kansas, voting Yea.
Assessments
Davids materially supported community health centers while in federal office by voting for the enacted American Rescue Plan Act, which provided major funding for community health centers and federally qualified health centers. She also publicly backed and highlighted HHS funding to Health Partnership Clinic, a federally qualified health center serving Kansas's Third District. Because the promise was framed as supporting community health centers rather than solely authoring a district-specific law or securing all funding herself, these same-term actions are sufficient for delivery.
Davids publicly supported and highlighted a 2026 HHS grant of $2.6 million to Health Partnership Clinic, a community health center serving Kansas's Third District, and stated continued support for local health centers. That is concrete support in the relevant federal district context during her term. However, the evidence mainly shows an HHS award she announced and backed, not that she authored, sponsored, secured, or comprehensively delivered a broader policy outcome for all district community health centers, so partial credit is more appropriate than full delivery.