Advocates For A Healthy Community Inc.

Advocates For A Healthy Community Inc., doing business as Jordan Valley Health, is a tax-exempt non-profit federally qualified health center (FQHC) based in Springfield, Missouri, that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient to expand primary care, behavioral health, dental, and graduate medical education services to low-income and medically underserved populations across five Missouri clinic locations. The organization does not hold federal contracts; all federal engagement is grant-based, split between prime recipient awards (67% of recent activity) and sub-recipient awards under state and non-profit prime grantees (33%).

Jordan Valley's customer base concentrates heavily within the Department of Health and Human Services ecosystem, which accounts for 87% of recent awards across multiple bureaus. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is the dominant funder, issuing twelve prime awards to support teaching health center graduate medical education, health center infrastructure, behavioral health and HIV prevention service expansion, and expanded clinic hours. The organization also receives funding from HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (seven awards) and HHS Administration for Children and Families (four awards) as a sub-recipient, primarily for breast and cervical cancer screening under the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Show Me Healthy Women program and refugee health services under the U.S. Committee For Refugees and Immigrants.

Representative prime awards include a $107,116 HRSA Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Payment Program grant (CFDA 93.530) issued March 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029, to establish an ACGME-accredited Family Medicine Residency Program in partnership with CoxHealth through the Southwest Missouri Consortium for Graduate Medical Education, with inaugural resident recruitment targeted for the 2025-2026 academic year; an FY 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion grant from HRSA's Bureau of Primary Health Care (award date September 1, 2024, completion February 28, 2026) to expand mental health and substance use disorder services; and a Fiscal Year 2025 Expanded Hours grant (award date December 1, 2024, completion November 30, 2025) supporting increased operating hours at pediatric acute care and medication-assisted treatment clinics. Jordan Valley also received HRSA funding for congressionally directed spending construction projects (completed May 31, 2023) to build a fifty-thousand-square-foot ambulatory surgery center and women and children's clinic at its Grand Avenue location in Springfield. Teaching health center planning and development grants from HRSA's Bureau of Health Professionals (April 1, 2023 awards) supported development of both a family medicine residency and a pediatric dental residency program, each requesting $500,000 in planning funding.

As a sub-recipient, Jordan Valley performs breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Show Me Healthy Women program (recurring awards from October 2021 through March 2026) and provides refugee health promotion, case management, and medical assistance services under sub-awards from the U.S. Committee For Refugees and Immigrants, including support for Operation Allies Welcome Afghan evacuees (awards from October 2023 onward) and Refugee Medical Assistance program beneficiaries in Texas and Missouri (awards from January 2024 onward).

Activity has been episodic rather than steady: two awards in 2022, eight in 2023, five in 2024, two in 2025, and two in 2026 as of the snapshot date. Only two awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited near-term recompete exposure. Combined obligated dollars across all recent awards total $254.8 million. Jordan Valley serves over 67,000 patients annually across its five clinic locations and operates in a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area.