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1996
Kellogg Foundation funds 9 SBHCs in Detroit; throws support to NASBHC.
31 states plus D.C. make grants to SBHCs.
C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General, "In my professional lifetime
the health of every group of American society has improved except
for teenagers. Isn't school the best place for a primary health
care facility?"
SBHCs total 900.
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Mid to Late 1990s
Arizona uses tobacco tax money to raise number of SBHCs from 33
to 85.
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1996
- 2000
More state associations form in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut,
Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas,
and West Virginia.
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1998
SBHCs in 22 states have contracts with managed care plans.
SBHCs have spread to elementary schools. One-third of all centers
serve younger children.
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2000
Louisiana and Massachusetts fund SBHCs with tobacco settlement dollars.
SBHCs are open in 28 of 29 public high schools in Delaware.
SBHCs in 45 states total nearly 1,400. |
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