Saturday, October 1, 2016

Horace Mann Medical Center

Where could a Lakewood student have a vision screening, dental exam and well-child visit all in one day?  Horace Mann Elementary School, that's where!

Last Thursday, our school morphed into the "Horace Mann Medical Center," complete with high school and college students being trained to provide medical care.  Upstairs, children in multiple grade levels had vision screenings administered (with supervision, of course) by West Shore Career Tech students in the Health Careers program as well as college students from Lorain County Community College.

Downstairs, the SMILE! Dental Program was set up to do a variety of dental procedures for students (with appropriate permission from parents).  The SMILE program comes to Horace Mann annually and will complete its third full day here on Monday, October 3rd.

Finally, in the Webb parking lot, the Cleveland Clinic School-Based Heath Center mobile unit made its Horace Mann debut (after successes at both Harrison and Garfield last year).  Eleven students were seen for parent-requested services such as well-child visits, vaccinations and flu shots.  The team from The Clinic were wonderful (thanks, Dave and Jami!) and provided additional information about the mobile unit:  http://my.clevelandclinic.org/childrens-hospital/specialties-services/departments-centers/primary-care-pediatrics/school-based-health-care

Many thanks to the Lakewood Schools Student Services Department--including our own Health Aide, Sheila Sabol--for bringing these critical health care offerings to our school.  While they can make for a day where instruction is not as seamless as usual, the access to health care is well worth it!

1 comment:

  1. Thanks everyone but the big supporters our you as parents and Katy Corrigan the district RN.

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