Integrated Health Services, Inc.
OUR MISSION
At Integrated Health Services (IHS), our mission is to improve students’ potential to achieve and maintain wellness by reducing and addressing barriers to care. Our School Based Health Centers (SBHCs) primarily serve uninsured and underinsured students and families.
OUR PURPOSE
IHS provides evidence-based comprehensive and preventive health care services in school settings to the full age continuum of students, including preschoolers, school-age children, and adults. The SBHCs yield measurable improvements in students’ behavioral, physical, and dental health outcomes, and reduce the amount of out-of-school time to address healthcare needs.
Guiding Principles
At the core of the organization’s work are the following Guiding Principles,
- Healthy students make better learners and productive citizens.
- School-based health care gives students access to immediate and long-term services regardless of ability to pay.
- Coordinated on-site healthcare provides a focus on prevention and leads to long-term wellness.
- Health and behavioral health services in a centralized school environment produce cost-effective and time-efficient service delivery.
- Collaboration is essential to addressing the complex health and behavioral healthcare needs being experienced by students and their families
Integrated Health Services, Inc. is more than happy to answer your questions.
Resources
CDC COVID-19 Response Health Equity Strategy
Reduce health disparities. Use data-driven approaches. Foster meaningful engagement with community institutions and diverse leaders. Lead culturally responsive outreach…
Children’s mental health badly harmed by pandemic
From June of last year to late this past spring, an average of five children a week were being admitted to the medical school’s teaching hospital at East Carolina University…
National Committee on Quality Accreditation
PCMH Standards Integrated Health Services was one of 2 cohorts in CT working with 2 cohorts in NY to pilot the standards. IHS was the only CT site to complete the pilot…
What is a SBHC: School Based Health Centers
School Based Health Centers (SBHCs) are comprehensive primary health care facilities located within or on the grounds of schools; licensed as “outpatient medical clinics” by DPH…
Laura M. I. Saunders, Psy.D. ABPP is a staff psychologist working at the Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital and is also Board Certified in Clinical Psychology. She is the Director of the new initiative, the Center for Gender Health at Hartford Healthcare. In 2015, Dr. Saunders was named Employee of the Year for Hartford Hospital and in 2019, she was the recipient of the Ned Graffagnino Award for distinguished service in the areas of community-oriented work and collaboration with other mental health professionals. 
Kareen Wilson is a team leader, owner, and patient-therapist at Contemporary General Dentistry in West Hartford, CT, and Smile Studio Dentistry in Hartford, CT. Kareen also works as an adjunct professor in the leadership program at Goodwin University. She has over twenty-five years of experience in clinical dental hygiene and office management. 
For over 25 years Doug Edwards has been a family services consultant who designs and facilitates fatherhood-focused programs. He provides professional development and training for family workers at state and non-profit human services agencies.
Joe Murphy is a Certified Financial Planner™ at Gateway Financial Partners. He has over 40 years of experience in Wealth Management and Investment Planning, including working with teams in the bank investment arena.