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School-Based Health & Education
The Hospital staffs each school with a physician assistant, while a Hospital case manager divides her time between the two schools. These health care professionals work in cooperation with the individual schools’ nurses and physicians to ensure that children are receiving the proper health education and treatments. Services are provided free of charge to approximately 500 children each year, more than 100 of whom are typically uninsured. “This program has helped so many families that would not normally seek health care," said Patricia Hendrix, Principal of Whitehall Elementary School. "It has improved our attendance tremendously and enriched our school in many different ways...I don’t know how we ever got along without it.” |
With a goal of improving
access to health care for children in rural portions of our service area, Glens Falls
Hospital has established school-based health and education programs at the Hadley-Luzerne
Middle School and the Whitehall Elementary School.