by Diana Procopis | Sep 28, 2020 | News
“The absence of these vital health care services may have lifelong consequences for these vulnerable children, and I call on states, pediatric providers, families, and schools to ensure children catch up,” CMS administrator Seema Verma said in a statement. Among the...
by Diana Procopis | Sep 28, 2020 | News
We know that school-based dental services have become a crucial way to connect low-income students, particularly students of color, with oral health care and education. And ensuring that every child — regardless of their background — has access to oral health care is...
by Diana Procopis | Sep 25, 2020 | News
School administration will be among the first to receive the earliest and most available doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Viju Jacob, the associate medical director for SBHC at Urban Health Pan states, “The opportunity is there because most parts of the country are at...
by Diana Procopis | Sep 18, 2020 | News
As children and families prepare to begin months of virtual learning, hundreds of thousands of low-income children are dealing with another hidden consequence of closed schools — no access to dental care. We know that school-based dental services have become a crucial...
by Diana Procopis | Sep 16, 2020 | News
In recent months, Congress has approved trillions of economic stimulus dollars, but in this post, Pedro Noguera (dean of the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California) and Robert Boyd (president of School-Based Health Alliance) argue for a...
by Diana Procopis | Sep 16, 2020 | News
For stakeholders like Robert Boyd, the economic fallout for hospitals from the COVID-19 pandemic is causing him to brace for the possibility that providers who sponsor school-based health centers may look at reducing their investments in such programs as a means of...
