Saginaw High School School-Based Health Center

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Services are available during school hours in Room 152 and open to students ages 10-21. This allows for consistent, convenient and carefree medical services-including everything from sports physicals and well-child visits to treatment of illness, injuries or chronic conditions to counseling and health education. This approach helps to ensure the best care possible for the students-right in their school.

“Access to culturally competent, high quality, first-contact primary care through school-based health centers is an effective way to reduce health inequities and, therefore, improve health outcomes for socially disadvantaged children and adolescents.”
–National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC)

Cost:

SBHC happily accepts

• All Kids
• Medicaid
• Most Private Insurance

Individuals without insurance will have access to a sliding fee scale based on income. The staff at the School-Based Health Center is also able to sign students up for both MiChild and Healthy Kids if they are uninsured.

How Do I Get Services?

• Parental consent required for all services (except Adolescent Confidential Health Services as per Michigan law).
• Walk-ins welcome for acute care issues
• Students or parents may call and make appointments

Students also have an opportunity to be involved with their School-Based Health Center through the Teen Advisory Council which is established at both schools. Some of the activities include: participating in awareness campaigns on the issues of teen sexual health, pregnancy prevention, dating violence prevention, etc.; going to Lansing annually to participate in “Advocacy Day” for school-based health centers across Michigan; and by participating in community events to promote their health center and encourage people to enroll their students.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/health_medicine/hiv_and_aids/

World Health Organization-HIV/AIDS Department http://www.who.int/hiv/en/
Ryan White Program http://hab.hrsa.gov/abouthab/aboutprogram.html

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