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Community health centers in Missouri

Missouri has 252 community health center clinics in 137 cities, run by 29 health centers that served 675,127 patients in 2025. Fees are on a sliding scale by income and insurance, and every patient is seen regardless of ability to pay.

The median clinic in Missouri is open 40 hours a week.
Half of Missouri health centers have 14% or more uninsured patients (U.S. median: 14%).
Most clinics in one city: Saint Louis with 23.

How Missouri health centers compare

Median across Missouri health centers	Missouri	U.S.
Uninsured patients	14%	14%
Patients at or below the poverty line	61%	65%
Medicaid or CHIP patients	48%	42%
Adults with blood pressure under control	69%	68%
Women 52–74 screened for breast cancer	45%	54%
Adults 46–75 screened for colorectal cancer	40%	44%

Largest health centers in Missouri

Health center	Based in	Patients	Uninsured	Clinics
Compass Health, Inc.	Clinton	126,012	11%	64
Advocates for A Healthy Community	Springfield	69,720	18%	12
Swope Health Services	Kansas City	55,043	15%	14
Affinia Healthcare	Saint Louis	39,900	32%	7
Ozark Tri-County Health Care Consortium DBA Access Family Care	Neosho	27,980	12%	11
Betty Jean Kerr - People's Health Centers	Saint Louis	25,159	20%	6
Big Springs Medical Association DBA Missouri Highland Health Care	Ellington	24,729	9%	17
Richland Medical Center Inc.	Richland	24,493	6%	7
Northeast Missouri Health Council, Inc.	Kirksville	23,695	8%	8
South Central Missouri Community Health Center	Rolla	22,646	12%	10
Samuel U Rodgers Health Center, Inc.	Kansas City	19,925	27%	3
Northwest Health Services, Inc.	Saint Joseph	19,410	33%	14

Cities with the most clinics

All Missouri cities with a community health center

All community health centers based in Missouri

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