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Nationwide Children’s updates Mount Vernon school clinic, urges outreach to boost use
Summary
Nationwide Children’s Hospital staff told the Mount Vernon Board of Education the school-based health clinic has capacity for more patients, described services (including primary care mental health and telepsychiatry), and asked the district to help with outreach and transportation for students at nearby schools.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital officials gave the Mount Vernon City Schools Board an update on the district’s school-based health clinic and asked the board to help increase community awareness and student access.
Mary Gator, senior director of school health at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and Laurie Schumann, nurse practitioner at the Mount Vernon High School School-Based Health Center, outlined services available at the clinic and said the operation has unused capacity.
The clinic provides comprehensive primary care — well visits, vaccinations, same-day acute care, sports physicals, chronic disease management and “primary care mental health,” Gator said. She said Nationwide Children’s trains nurse practitioners to diagnose and manage common mental-health conditions (anxiety, depression and ADHD) and offers telepsychiatry when specialist input is needed.
Gator said the clinic aims to be a medical…
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