‘A true medical home’: Howard County expands school-based wellness centers to reach underserved and uninsured students

Doctors visits can be time consuming for students, taking them away from the classroom for hours sitting in traffic and waiting rooms. But at some Howard County public schools, a pediatrician is just a click away. At the county’s 11 school-based wellness centers, students can receive onsite physicals and screenings and, at eight of the locations, connect with a local provider remotely via a telemedicine appointment.