[Ohioaap-practicemanagers] School based health clinic in our back yard

[Michael Chamberlin]

We have recently discovered that our local school district is opening a
school based health clinic.  While I understand the need for school based
health clinics in underserved areas, that is not the case in our area.
There will be an FNP on site at the middle school and they will offer
transportation from the elementary and high schools.  In addition to acute
illness visits, this FNP will be doing well care, sports physicals, chronic
illness diagnosis and management, vaccines, etc.

Obviously, this is undermining the medical home and will deliver
substandard care for these children and families.  Have any of you dealt
with situations like this before?  What has worked and what hasn't?

Right now, our plan is to send a letter to all families in this school
district to remind them of the importance of a medical home and how this
fractured care can affect their children.  We also plan on sending a letter
to the superintendent of the school board to voice our concerns and ask for
a meeting to more fully discuss this issue.  I have alerted the other large
pediatric group in this school district to this issue so that we can work
together to find a solution.

Does anyone have a letter that they have sent out to families in similar
situations that they would be willing to share?

Thanks in advance for your help with this,

Mike

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Michael Chamberlin, M.D., FAAP
Pediatric Assoc. of Mt Carmel
4371 Ferguson Dr
Cincinnati, OH  45230
513-752-3650
513-752-3387 (fax)
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