ROBERT PIERCE
• Leader & Times
Those looking for a wellness clinic in Southwest Kansas now have another option to choose from for their needs.
Davis Aesthetics and Primary Care (DAPC) was established in January 2023 and opened in Sublette as Beauty & Beyond. The practice has since grown, and the entity was combined in November 2023 as DAPC.
Clinic owner Cassandra Davis started in wellness in 2003 in another clinic offering IV therapy and anesthetics work, along Botox, fillers and polydioxanone (PDO) threading.
Davis currently offers those services as well as others, including weight loss injections, consults and skin care, along with direct primary care.
Davis is a Southwest Kansas native, attending Southwestern Heights High School before graduating from high school in Parsons in Southeast Kansas. She then attended junior college, where she began her higher education as a pre-pharmacy major.
Davis came back to the area in 2003 and would go on to attend Seward County Community College as part of the school’s surgical technician and nursing programs.
Davis then worked at Southwest Medical Center for seven years in the hospital’s pharmacy and operating and emergency rooms. This was likewise where she got the training for her nursing degree, and from there, she moved to Hutchinson and started a bachelor’s program at Tabor College.
“After my bachelor’s program, I moved up to the Kansas City area, and I started grad school from a Boston University type college,” she said It’s called Simmons College. It’s their practitioner program.”
Davis would come back to Southwest Kansas to do her rotations, which she finished in 2016.
“After I was done with grad school, I started working for the Kansas Medical Center out of Wichita for the cardiologist,” she said. “That was my last rotation during grad school, and I got hired on from there. I did the clinic in Liberal. We had the office building inside the hospital there, and I ran that clinic from 2017 to 2019, and I decided I wanted to branch out, broaden my scope and do more family practice.”
At that time, Davis also took a job in Satanta, working there for five years doing family practice, emergency medicine, hospitalist work and long-time care. Also since 2016, she has been certified to do Botox and fillers.
“I took some classes after grad school, and I was doing it at that time and my time at Satanta,” she said. “I also grew that a bit, started doing it therapeutically for migraines, spasticity, cervical dystonia and other therapeutic uses for Botox.”
It was in April 2023 when Davis would go full time with her own practice, opening her current location in Sublette earlier that year to do aesthetics. After a non-compete clause got dissolved in July 2023, she went on to open a full-time family practice for direct primary care.
“I’ve been doing that ever since, and I also do one day a month in Meade County’s health department doing their women’s health,” she said. “I work for a neurospine surgeon who comes out of Wichita. I’ll do some cases for him here or see some of his patients here at my clinic, and I’ll go to Liberal or Garden City, whatever’s needed, about one day a month.”
Davis said a medical career has been a dream for her since childhood.
“I wanted to be a physician, and with life curves, my path took me a different way,” she said. “When I was in the nursing field, it allowed me to grow and be able to do what I wanted to do. I had a family, and I wasn’t able to leave for extended periods of time. I went into the practitioner route and did that.”
Davis said this is when her dream began to become reality.
“I was initially going to be a pharmacist or a doctor,” she said. “It grew from there, but having kids and being married at that time changed some of those plans. I did what I could with what I had and ended up liking it and progressing in that degree area as far as I could. I’m still progressing. I’m about to start a doctorate program with an MBA and still run this practice.”
Earlier in her life, Davis had lived in urban areas such as Colorado Springs and Boston, and seeing clinics similar to hers there to offer alternative treatments that were less invasive and more beneficial, she felt those in rural areas such as Southwest Kansas needed a way to get those treatments as well.
“We didn’t have that out here,” she said. “What I wanted to do was bring something out here that would be cost effective where people wouldn’t have to drive to Wichita, Oklahoma City or Amarillo to have some of these treatments done. They could do it more local with somebody they knew and was from the area. That’s what drove me to open this practice.”
Davis remarried in 2018 to an area farmer, and when she had come back to the area and while in grad school and working with a cardiologist, she also worked in critical care and flight nursing for Eagle Med.
“You could do 24-hour shifts, and you’re able to still go school full time and get full-time hours and be able to take care of your family and have insurance,” she said. “I worked a long time and ended up meeting my husband, got married and moved out here, and this is where we are.”
As for the demand for the services DAPC provides, Davis said she does not lack for business.
“We’re centrally located,” she said. “I’m in between Dodge City, Garden City, Liberal. I pull from Oklahoma. I’ve got patients from Texas. I get Scott City, the Lamar area, patients from Ashland and Protection, Wichita. Some patients come out here and visit family members who live elsewhere. They tell people.”
Along with those communities, Davis sees patients from Meade, Plains and Kismet as well, adding she does not have a problem getting patients.
“On the aesthetics side, that’s mainly where I started, and the IV therapy is very popular,” she said. “That’s a revolving door. We have patients every day for that. On the direct primary care, I decided to do a different type of primary care for people out here that may not be as well known.”
Davis said this is something she wanted to offer, and it does benefit many people who are uninsured and those looking for more personalized care with traditional insurance.
“We incorporated that into the practice, and we don’t lack on getting members,” she said. “It’s a medical service plan.”
DAPC has a small staff, but Davis said she still offers many different services.
“With advertising, we try to do the best we can,” she said. “The practice is small. It’s owned by me. I do have a physician who comes if needed. I have a nurse and an office manager, and we’re about to hire another nurse.”
One of the services Davis recently began offering is Flex MD, which is FDA approved and described as the gold standard of professional, portable LED phototherapy powered by unique technology.
“It’s basically the power of light,” she said. “It has some of the most clinically proven wavelengths out there to treat certain conditions. It’s a flexible model. I can virtually put it anywhere somebody is suffering. There’s different wavelengths that treat different conditions.”
Davis said one of the most popular Flex MD treatments is the blue light, which helps destroy acne causing bacteria and reduce skin inflammation.
Davis said DAPC provides inexpensive and direct service, working directly with patients without the hassle of dealing with insurance.
“We do not take insurance at this clinic,” she said. “We are not an insurance model. This is a fee for service thing. Patients can use CareCredit. They can do HSAs, and we have the medical service plan. It’s a medical service plan where they will sign up. It’s a monthly fee, and they get unlimited visits with that. That’s more on the primary care side. Members will sign up, and when they sign up, they get benefits – direct wholesale cost on medications, wholesale cost on labs. They get it at cost.”
DAPC does offer member discounts for aesthetics, wellness, IV therapy, Botox, fillers, thread lifts and skin care.
“Some of the health insight testing we offer will take insurance like Genesight, and we submit that to the Genesight company,” Davis said. “That’s a test we use for mental health patients or patients who want to know which medications in the anxiety, depression world that works best for them according to their genes.”
Davis said these treatments do take insurance, but otherwise DAPC’s payment model does deal with insurance.
“We do the monthly member service fee,” she said. “We also do walkins.”
Davis said patients have a few ways to make appointments.
“They can call our office,” she said. “Our phone number is 620-510-5004. They can also go on to our Web site, davisaestheticspc.com. They can also e-mail us at
DAPC is located at 100 W. Choteau Ave. near Inman Street in Sublette.
“It’s in the same building as the post office,” Davis Street. “It’s easy to find from Main Street. It’s right across from the grade school, across from the courthouse, and it’s on the south side of the post office.”
Staff is in the DAPC office generally from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with rotating weekends to fit patients in if needed, but Davis said business at the clinic is by appointment only for the most part.
“A lot of people call and tell us what they need or what they want, and we try to work around that,” she said.
Other services provided by the Sublette clinic include outside lab testing, physicals for the Department of Transportation and sports and testing for allergies, hormones, colon cancer, food sensitivity and micronutrients. This is in addition to the aesthetics services Davis and her staff provide.
“There’s a wide array of things in here people might not be too aware of, but advertising can get hard to do,” she said.
