Reimagining the Role of School-Based Health Centers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

For the past decade, school‐based health centers (SBHCs) have become one important solution for increasing access to care for children from disadvantaged backgrounds in the United States 1, 2 This is especially critical given that children in underserved communities have higher rates of asthma, obesity, mental health disorders, and are less likely to receive routine care from community providers 1 With the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the resultant nationwide K‐12 school closures, SBHCs have had to adopt alternate strategies to continue providing care to school children in need, with some not having the capacity to remain open at all 3