Meeting the Health Needs of Georgia Students
Funding by the º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Foundation and Peach State Health Plan helps provide comprehensive and high-quality healthcare services for students in high-need areas of Georgia.
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The º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Foundation and º£½ÇÂÒÂ×’s Georgia health plan, Peach State Health Plan, are investing over $1 million to enhance comprehensive school-based health centers (SBHC) at in-need schools in Georgia. Out of the approximately 2,200 public schools in the state, only a little over 100 have SBHCs. School nurses are unable to meet students’ needs and hundreds of schools don’t have a school nurse to serve their students.
This funding helps provide comprehensive and high-quality healthcare services for students who attend schools in areas with high poverty rates. The investment in these SBHCs is done in coordination with the , the Ìýand experienced federally qualified health centers.
The investment builds on the governor’s initiative to increase funding for Georgia SBHCs, which are an effective and under-utilized way to ensure students’ health needs are met.
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