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District health director says health offices handled more than 46,000 visits this year; highlights diabetes and immunization work
Summary
Priscilla Whitaker told the Los Banos Unified board that health offices logged 46,659 visits in 124 school days, with 1,180 diabetes-related visits and 27 students with type 1 diabetes. She urged outreach and noted immunization compliance remains below the 95% goal at two sites.
Priscilla Whitaker, the district's director of student health services, told the Los Banos Unified School District board that school health staff have been managing a heavy caseload this year, reporting 46,659 health-office visits through 124 school days.
Whittaker said the district currently has four credentialed school nurses, eight LVNs, eight health assistants and an LVN assigned to the LEAP program. "We're very busy," she said, summarizing the scope of daily first-aid care, chronic-condition management and medication administration across 14 staffed health offices.
She highl…
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