School-Based Health Center Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Preliminary Study

SBHA, May 18, 2021

Erin Sullivan, MSPH, Laura Brey, MS, Samira Soleimanpour, PhD

Over half of SBHCs (57%, n = 244) provided telehealth services following school closures in spring 2020. Of these SBHCs, a majority offered primary care (90%) or behavioral health (83%) and few, if any, provided oral health (9%) or vision (0%) via telehealth. Compared with fall 2019, the estimated proportion of SBHC visits conducted via telehealth increased from 3% to 79% among all sites offering telehealth in spring 2020 (n = 244) and from 2% to 40% among SBHCs that remained physically open at this time (n = 53).