What is the difference between School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County and school nurses?
The School Health Clinics are licensed community clinics that serve as “doctors on campus” providing primary medical care to the students and to children in the surrounding community. We are able to bill insurance for the care that we provide to those patients for whom we are the primary care provider. Do you only see students at the school where you are located? No. All of our clinics see infants, children, and adolescents under the age of 19 from the surrounding community. Do you see adults? School Health Clinics partners with free clinics at 3 of our sites. RotaCare at Washington Neighborhood Clinic, Gilroy Neighborhood Health Clinic, and Pacific Free Clinic at Overfelt High School Neighborhood Clinic provide adult care one day a week at each site. We continue to look for opportunities to expand adult care to our other sites. Why are there children who are uninsured? I thought the tobacco tax was supposed to insure all children. Not all children are insured because there are new chi
