SBHCs

New SBHC Opening all Across the State

Centers Opened in 2012

Sandy 

Milwaukie

Centers Opening Soon!

Estacada - March

Century - February

Vernonia - January

Centennial High School - TBA

Beaverton - TBA

Tualitin - TBA


Oregon Makes Good on Federal Funding

The Affordable Care Act provides $200 million in funding from fiscal years 2010 – 2013 for the School-Based Health Center Capital Program (SBHCCP). A series of awards has been made available to school-based health centers under the Affordable Care Act.

First Round Awardees-Oct 2011    
Columbia Health District-Public Health Authority Saint Helens 500,000
Community Health Center Inc. Eagle Point 494,640
Community Health Centers of Benton/Linn Counties Corvallis 124,617
Crook County Health Department Prineville 138,357
Deschutes County, Oregon Bend 500,000
Hillsboro School District Hillsboro 500,000
La Clinica del Valle Family Health Care Center Medford 456,890
Lane County School District #52 Eugene 92,183
Lincoln County Health and Human Services Newport 500,000
Multnomah County Health Department Portland 426,266
North Clackamas Schools Portland 396,681
Siskiyou CHC Grants Pass 65,000
TOTAL   4,194,634
     
Second Round Awardees-Jan 2012    
Estacada School District # 108 Estacada 392,104
Center for Human Development, Inc. La Grande 255,000
TOTAL   647,104
     
Third Round Awardees-Dec 2012    
Beaverton School District Beaverton 500,000
Community Health Center Medford 371,956
Multnomah County Health Department Portland 500,000
Tigard Tualatin School District Tualatin/Sherwood 500,000
Waterfall Clinic, Inc. North Bend 381,000
TOTAL   2,252,956
     
Combined Funding   7,094,694

What is a School-Based Health Center (SBHC)?

School based health centers are like a doctor’s office in school. They provide quality primary and mental health services where the kids are – keeping them healthier, in school and ready to learn

School-based health centers deliver quality, affordable, cost-effective health care and enjoy broad community support.  They are an investment that returns benefits to our schools, families, communities, and most of all to our youth.

Day in the Life of School-Based Health Center 

In one 6-hour day at a School Based Health Center, the Family Nurse Practitioner: 

 

  • Performed a fasting and 2 hour blood sugar check, including finding the student food for a glucose load as dad had eaten hers. 
  • Made a new asthma diagnosis and prescribed an inhaler and taught its use.
  • Consulted with a student about her birth control method and made a change.
  • Diagnosed an ear infection and consulted with student’s mom about it.
  • Counseled a student about depression, family issues, friend issues, food issues.
  • Took care of a student with back pain.
  • Diagnosed possible new genital herpes and taught, counseled, and consoled the student.
  • Gave several immunizations.
  • Washed cinnamon out of a student’s eye. (Foods class had been wild!)
  • Discovered a new allergy and wrote up an emergency plan for the school and prescribed an Epi-pen for the student.
  • Talked to a dad who called about his daughter, who was depressed. Called poison control to consult then called dad back and sent to ER for suicide attempt. Notified her primary care provider. Scheduled her for counseling here at the school.
  • Called a mom to tell her about her daughter’s suicide attempt 2 weeks earlier.
  • Talked to a mom who called to say that her daughter is threatening violence and suicide. Referred her to outside resources.
  • Sent 3 kids home with various illnesses.
  • Arranged supervision for the new counseling intern
  • Scheduled to be guest speaker in the health classes and the alternative ed. classes.
  • Helped a foster mom arrange a psychological evaluation for her daughter.
  • Gave numerous analgesics for HA, menstrual cramps, and tightened braces.
  • Scheduled Epi-pen training for 4 school staff.

Did NOT manage to get all the charting done. In fcact, still has charting left from yesterday. Maybe tomorrow?