CHICAGO — Here’s a devastating fact for youth living in underserved neighborhoods: Poor health can translate into poor school attendance, lower educational achievement and a shorter life. Now here’s a better one: School-based healthcare offers this group a chance to beat the odds. Offered through safety-net clinics, school-based health centers provide primary, preventive and mental-health […]
Author Archives: Sally Lemke
Sally Lemke is director of the Rush University Medical Center’s School-Based Health Centers, a nurse practitioner, an instructor in the Rush University College of Nursing and a Public Voices Fellow through The OpEd Project.