State officials continue gathering information on how COVID-19 is affecting Hoosiers’ mental health. Family and Social Services Administration Secretary Dr. Jennifer Sullivan shared some of the numbers behind the issue during state officials’ COVID-19 press conference Wednesday.
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Starke and LaPorte hospital patients can now proceed with their elective procedures. Hospital officials say they’ve successfully resumed some outpatient elective services.
Continue readingThe risk of COVID-19 has health care providers seeing patients over the internet. Locally, LaPorte Physician Network says its doctors are now accepting telehealth appointments, including those in Knox and North Judson.
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The Oregon-Davis School Corporation recently received a grant from the Indiana Rural Health Association that allowed them to implement a special health service when school began this year. At the new telehealth clinic, an on-site medical assistant utilizes telecommunication technology that allows a student to be seen by a health care provider without leaving school grounds.
Although the clinic is located in a private room at the elementary school, it is available to all Oregon-Davis students from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. on school days. Between August 10th and September 26th, the telehealth clinic had 12 students come in for assistance. Continue reading
The Oregon-Davis School Corporation’s new telehealth center is up and running. It allows sick students to be seen remotely by a licensed health care provider without leaving school, thanks to an agreement with HealthLinc.
The Oregon-Davis School Corporation will cut the ribbon on its new “telehealth center” this evening. The new facility will let O-D students be evaluated remotely by a nurse practitioner in Knox, thanks to an agreement with HealthLinc. Continue reading
The Oregon-Davis School Corporation hopes to improve the health of its students and reduce the number of sick days. Continue reading
