School-based health centers (SBHCs) provide quality health services to the children and youth they serve. Numerous studies have validated the access provided by SBHCs. The School-Based Health Alliance has captured descriptive data on the services provided. However, no standardized quality measures to benchmark performance across SBHCs exists. An initiative to establish standards that would uniformly capture quality of care delivered was essential. This article describes how five measures developed by the School-Based Health Alliance were implemented as a state-based quality improvement initiative after being tested in four states. The initiative led to the adoption of these measures for all state-funded SBHCs.

以学校为基础的健康中心 (SBHC) 为所服务的儿童和青少年提供优质的健康服务。许多研究已经验证了 SBHC 提供的访问权限。校本健康联盟已获取有关所提供服务的描述性数据。但是，不存在用于衡量 SBHC 性能的标准化质量措施。一项旨在建立统一反映所提供护理质量的标准的举措至关重要。本文描述了由校本健康联盟制定的五项措施如何在四个州进行测试后作为基于州的质量改进计划实施。该倡议导致所有国家资助的 SBHC 都采用了这些措施。