Community health centers treated 32,746,392 people in 2025, according to figures now posted in the federal Uniform Data System. That is roughly one in ten Americans, served by 1,356 reporting organizations. Nearly 90 percent of those patients with known income lived at or below twice the federal poverty guideline.
Two funding deadlines now sit in front of that system. According to the National Association of Community Health Centers, discretionary funding for health centers expires on September 30, 2026, and mandatory multi-year funding from the Community Health Center Fund expires on December 31, 2026.
