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School-Based Health Center

District 49 offers a school-based health center at Falcon Elementary School. Peak Vista Community Health Centers provides basic healthcare to district students and their siblings, 21 years old and younger, Monday thru Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The summer hours are now the same as school year hours.

School-Based Health Center District 49 unveiled El Paso County’s second school-based health center Aug. 16, 2012, during an open house event. Peak Vista Community Health Centers of Colorado Springs earned a competitive federal grant last year to partner with three local schools, allowing it to help students get treated for acute illnesses, such as flu, and chronic conditions, including asthma, allergies and diabetes. The center accepted its first patient Aug. 7, while initially offering its services Tuesdays and Fridays.

The staff ensures each child's well-being is safeguarded by attending to their physical and psychological needs as he or she grows from childhood into adolescence. In addition to caring for illnesses and injuries and chronic health issues, they provide preventative physical exams and immunizations and employ a part-time behavioral health specialist. The health center's outreach specialist works with patients to provide screening and application processing for Medicaid, Child Health Plan Plus and Colorado Indigent Care Program. Many children in District 49 qualify for one of these programs.

SBHC Location

SBHC Services

Services
  • Physical health appointments, sick child care
  • Immunizations
  • Athletic physicals
  • Behavioral Healthcare
  • Counseling
  • Dental referrals to Peak Vista’s Family Health Center
  • Medicaid, CHP+, CICP and sliding fee scale enrollment
Hours of Operation
  • 2015-2016 School Year: Monday thru Friday, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  • Summer of 2015: Monday thru Friday, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  • 2014-2015 School Year: Monday thru Friday, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  • Summer of 2014: Mondays and Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Enroll Patient, Make Appointment
  • Call 719.344.6247, during regular business hours
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