Congressman Cleaver Announces Community Health Centers in MO-05 To Receive $20.8 Million in American Rescue Plan Funding To Expand Access to Vaccines

(Kansas City, MO) – Today, United States Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) announced that four Community Health Centers in the Fifth Congressional District of Missouri will receive over $20.8 million from the American Rescue Plan to expand access to COVID-19 vaccination, testing, and treatment operations. The funding comes from the American Rescue Plan's investments in expanding access to coronavirus vaccines in underserved communities, something Congressman Cleaver has been advocating for since the beginning of the pandemic.

"Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, help is here for Missouri's Community Health Centers," said Congressman Cleaver. "For the duration of the pandemic, we've known that underserved communities are bearing the brunt of the devastation caused by coronavirus. I'm pleased that our efforts to provide desperately needed resources to these communities are beginning to bear fruit. Community Health Centers have been on the frontlines of this public health crisis, and they're critical to getting shots into arms so that we can save lives and put an end to COVID-19 once and for all."

Community Health Centers in Missouri's Fifth Congressional District receiving funds include:

• Swope Health Services - $10,503,000;
• Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center, Inc. - $5,342,625;
• Kansas City Care Clinic - $3,492,625; and
• Health Care Coalition of Lafayette County - $1,470,625.

The funding can be used to expand COVID-19 vaccinations, testing, and treatment for vulnerable populations; deliver preventive and primary health care services to people at higher risk for COVID-19; and expand health centers' operational capacity during the pandemic and beyond, including modifying and improving physical infrastructure and adding mobile units.

You can find a full list of Community Health Centers in Missouri receiving American Rescue Plan funding here.

Emanuel Cleaver, II is the U.S. Representative for Missouri's Fifth Congressional District, which includes Kansas City, Independence, Lee's Summit, Raytown, Grandview, Sugar Creek, Blue Springs, Grain Valley, Oak Grove, North Kansas City, Gladstone, Claycomo, and all of Ray, Lafayette, and Saline Counties. He is a member of the exclusive House Financial Services Committee; Chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy; member of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress; member of the Committee on Homeland Security; and a Senior Whip of the Democratic Caucus. For more information, please contact Matt Helfant at 202-590-0175 or matthew.helfant@mail.house.gov A high-resolution photo of Congressman Cleaver is available here.