School-Based Health Centers.The number of school-based health care centers providing students with medical, mental health and substance abuse services now totals 1,154, having doubled over the past four years, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a national survey conducted by Making the Grade, a national resource center on school-based health care. Most school-based health centers are located in high schools (39 percent) and urban centers (26 percent), according to survey findings. However, the numbers of school-based health centers is expected to expand to more rural communities, where medical and mental health care can be particularly limited. School-based health centers have begun to tap new funding sources to sustain these programs beyond state funding from Maternal MATERNAL. That which belongs to, or comes from the mother: as, maternal authority, maternal relation, maternal estate, maternal line. Vide Line. and Child Health Block Grants (Title V of the Social Security Act). However, this source has decreased by $4 million in the past two years. That decline has been offset, in part, by a $1.5 million increase in state general fund support. In addition, school-based health centers are billing third-party payers, such as Medicaid Medicaid, national health insurance program in the United States for low-income persons; established in 1965 with passage of the Social Security Amendments and now run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. and commercial insurers, for care provided. |
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