by NYSBHA Staff | Nov 1, 2021 | News
Alliance Executive Director Sarah Murphy attended the NYS Assembly Standing Committee on Health’s Public Hearing: Medicaid Program Efficacy and Sustainability November 1st to provide testimony in response to the topic: Whether some Medicaid services or...
by NYSBHA Staff | Sep 21, 2021 | News
Chris Kjolhede and April C. Lee; COUNCIL ON SCHOOL HEALTH Pediatrics September 2021, e2021053758; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-053758 Abstract School-based health centers (SBHCs) are unique health care settings for our nation’s school-aged children and...
by Diana Procopis | Sep 20, 2021 | News
Original article written by Joseph P. Williams for U.S News Hospitals and health systems are getting more serious about tackling health disparities tied to social problems. Awake at 4 a.m. one morning last November, Felicia Silva of Albuquerque, New Mexico, assumed...
by Diana Procopis | Sep 20, 2021 | News
Original article written by Sara Bond for FoodTank Food literacy, the understanding that food choices affect human and planetary health, can be an important tool for building resilient individuals and communities. A combination of nutrition knowledge, culinary skill,...
by Diana Procopis | Sep 20, 2021 | News
Original article written by Marianna McMurdock for The 74 58% of Young New Yorkers Didn’t Get the Help They Needed During the Pandemic. In-school mental health supports A number of schools adopted new mental health initiatives because of and during the pandemic to...
by Diana Procopis | Sep 20, 2021 | News
Original article written by Sarah Connell Sanders for Worcester Magazine Family Health Center of Worcester continues to operate Doherty’s SBHC, along with six others across the Worcester Public Schools. Edward M. Kennedy operates five SBHC’s in the city, including...