Finger Lakes Community Health School-Based Health Center (NY)

In 2023, Finger Lakes Community Health (FLCH) opened its first fixed school-based health center site. In addition to offering medical and behavioral health visits, the program provides popular onsite dental service. Eight months after opening, FLHC was advised by the school board that absenteeism had dropped, which they attributed to the SBHC. About two-thirds of the school's students are registered at the SBHC and many school families are FLHC patients, keeping the whole family’s healthcare in the same system. In 2025, the program served an estimated 2,200 children at 74 schools.

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