School-Based Health Centers

The family had no insurance and no money in their budget for their children's check-ups. But their seven-year-old desperately needed help to control his asthma. They turned to places they could trust: their child's school and Banner school-based health centers.

Throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area, Banner Health provides heath care to thousands of children.

• Six Banner Health health care professionals provided care to almost 4,000 children in 2008.
• Our 15 health centers provide services to nearly 250 schools in the metro Phoenix area.
• The children come in for ailments ranging from earaches to baffling neurological conditions stemming from strep throat.
• Nurse practitioners and physicians assistants use check-ups as an opportunity for extensive health counseling for conditions epidemic in children such as obesity and asthma.
• Banner School-Based Health Centers are sometimes the only health care provider children have.
• The need for school-based care is greater than ever. Arizona's rate of uninsured residents is one of the highest in the country and our economy has made it difficult for families to afford rising co-pays.

A $100 donation means six children can be seen in a two-hour time period at a Banner School-Based Health Center.