Friday, December 10, 1999
Health centers come to schools
Foundation grant creates partners
BY DANA DiFILIPPO
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Seven Tristate school districts will share $2.5 million in three-year grants to create school-based health centers that will boost children's health care beyond Band-Aids for boo-boos.
The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati awarded the grants to cover the costs of starting the centers, which will link schools, the community and a medical provider.
The centers, expected to open by next fall, will go beyond what traditional school nurses can do, by emphasizing prevention, care and screening for chronic conditions such as sickle-cell anemia, diabetes and asthma. They'll offer psychologi cal counseling and screening.
People in Greater Cincinnati listed children's health programs as the region's top health-care need and priority in the foundation's 1997 survey of communities in its 20-county service area.
Providing health care in schools eliminates the transportation troubles and discomfort with doctors' offices that limit many low-income families' access to care, foundation President Donald E. Hoffman said. Planners hope the centers will improve achievement as they alleviate medical woes, he added.
“If you don't come to school because you have a runny nose, then you don't learn,” Mr. Hoffman said.
• Cincinnati Public Schools' Rockdale Paideia Academy, partnering with Children's Hospital Medical Center, $349,150.
• Cincinnati Public Schools' Taft Elementary School, partnering with Neighborhood Health Care, Inc., $222,300.
• Gallatin County School District, partnering with the Three Rivers District Health Department, $350,000.
• Newport Independent Schools, partnering with St. Luke's Pediatric Center, $345,000. Schools to be served are Fourth Street Elementary and Newport Middle School.
• Norwood City School District, partnering with BMF, Inc., and Bethesda Family Medical Group, $299,607. Schools to be served are Allison Elementary, Norwood View, Sharpsburg Elementary, Williams Elementary and Norwood Middle.
• Silver Grove Independent Schools, partnering with Northern Kentucky Family Health Services, $252,825.
• Western Brown County School District, partnering with Southern Ohio Health Services Network, $334,000. Schools to be served are Mount Orab Elementary and Middle School and Hamersville Elementary.
• Williamstown Independent School District, partnering with Summit Medical Group, $330,000.
The foundation aims to award more grants next year.
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