The Oregon-Davis School Corporation hopes to improve the health of its students and reduce the number of sick days.
Superintendent Don Harman says the school board last week approved an agreement with HealthLinc to add a “telehealth center” at Oregon-Davis next school year. “If a student is sick, instead of having a parent come and get them, take them to the doctor, and be evaluated, they’ll actually go into a room, our nurse will be involved, but there will be an employee from HealthLinc who will, basically, have a monitor that then a nurse practitioner will be at a doctor’s office in Knox and that will evaluate that student,” Harman explains.
He adds that HealthLinc will provide equipment to allow the nurse practitioner to evaluate students remotely. “The whole goal here is then the child will miss less school and help the parent, as far as getting them to and from medical attention,” he says, “that we’ll be able to do it right here at school.”
Harman says some of the costs will be covered by a grant through the Indiana Rural Health Association.
