Des soins de santé à l'école
This entry has been selected as a finalist in the
Innovations for Health: Solutions that Cross Borders competition.
Nous offrons des soins de qualité aux écoliers ayant un accès limité aux soins afin qu'ils soient en bonne santé, présents à l'école et aptes à apprendre.
A propos de vous
A propos de vous
Prénom
Elizabeth
Nom
Polizzi
Adresse électronique
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A propos de votre organisation
Nom
Education Plus Health
Pays
États Unis, PA, Philadelphia County
Pays dans lesquels ce projet crée un impact social
États Unis, PA, Philadelphia County
Votre organisation est-elle une
organisation à but non lucratif
Depuis combien de temps votre organisation opère-t-elle ?
1‐5 années
Votre organisation a-t-elle reçu des récompenses ou des prix ? Si oui, indiquez-nous lesquels.
In October 2011, our partners at Temple University presented our model of school-based health clinics in the Temple University Fox School of Business Innovative Idea Competition. The panel of judges awarded our project first prize and we were also the recipients of the "people's choice" award which was based on audience votes.
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Tine Hansen-Turton: tine@nncc.us, 215-731-7140.
A partner in our project, Tine serves as the CEO of the nonprofit National Nursing Centers Consortium and the Chief Strategy Officer for the nonprofit Public Health Management Corporation. She co-founded the Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal and received the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship, the Philadelphia Business Journal 40 under 40 Leadership Award, the Philadelphia Connector and the American Express NextGen Fellow.
Nancy Rothman: rothman@temple.edu, 215-707-5436.
Also a partner in our project, Nancy is a professor of urban community nursing and the Director of Community-based Practices at the Temple University College of Health Professions and Social Work.
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Innovation
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Croissance (votre pilote fonctionne et commence à prendre de l'ampleur)
Depuis combien de temps le projet existe-t-il ?
En place depuis 1 à 5 ans
Le besoin : quel problème tentez-vous de résoudre ?
Medically underserved students throughout Philadelphia and across the country face various obstacles to school success, including poor health and lack of access to quality, timely, and affordable medical care. In addition to greater likelihood of underperformance in school, underserved and unhealthy students are also at high risk of truancy and dropout.
La solution: quelle solution proposez-vous ? Soyez précis !
Our nurse-managed school-based health centers bring quality primary care to medically underserved students where they belong, in school, to ensure that they are healthy and ready to learn. The health centers target medically-underserved students in grades Pre-K through 8 at two sites in Philadelphia: Pan American Academy Charter School in Eastern North Philadelphia and Belmont Charter School in West Philadelphia. The school-based health centers are operated by nurse practitioners from Temple University, who offer primary care services, preventive services, social services, dental services, vision services and health outreach and education to all students at the Pan American and Belmont schools. In addition, they help students manage chronic disease conditions such as asthma and diabetes and are able to prescribe medications and coordinate care with the children’s own pediatricians. As a result children have greater chances of staying healthy and being ready to learn in school.
Le système : décrivez un exemple spécifique montrant de quelle façon votre initiative fonctionne ; indiquez vos principales activités.
The school based health center is a partnership between Education Plus Health, the National Nursing Centers Consortium, Pan American Academy Charter School, Belmont Charter School and the Temple University College of Health Professions and Social Work. The health centers are staffed by an interdisciplinary team of nurse practitioners who are nursing professors and nursing students from Temple University serving their curriculum-required community-based clinical rotations. The team offers preventive health services, primary care services, dental services, vision services, behavioral health services, and health and wellness education. Preventive health services offered to children include screenings for common chronic conditions such as asthma and diabetes, immunizations, and home assessments to determine environmental and health risks.
The health centers reduce overall medical costs by decreasing the overuse of the emergency room (ER) by students who lack a reliable medical home. To date, the health center model has proven to decrease truancy rates in students, as parents are able to send their children to school because of the ability of the nurse practitioner to manage the children’s illness. This chronic disease management has helped to reduce the number of student absences due to illness and missed classroom time for medical appointments. Attendance rates increased from 94% to 99% at Pan American Academy after the first year of the health center’s implementation.
The two health centers combined serve over 1,100 students (450 at Pan American and 650 at Belmont).
Le marché : qui sont vos collègues et vos concurrents ? Identifiez les autres personnes qui travaillent à répondre au même besoin et indiquez ce qui vous différencie d'elles. Comment ces concurrents pourraient-ils influencer votre réussite ou votre croissance ?
The alternative to our nurse practitioner model is the traditional school nurse. The traditional school nurse model cannot provide primary care, immunizations, physicals, or prescriptions like the master’s or doctoral prepared primary care nurse practitioner. Furthermore, the traditional school nurse is typically not in the school fulltime whereas the Temple Department of Nursing model places nurse practitioners and nursing students in the school clinic during all school hours, 5 days a week. Finally, the traditional school nurse focuses more on managing illnesses while our model places a higher priority on preventing illnesses and keeping children in school and healthy, emphasizing health promotion, disease prevention, chronic and acute disease management and wellness education.
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Impact social
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As I sat waiting for our Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia (CSFP) board meeting to commence in October 2009, I spoke with a fellow member, Nicolas Torres. "I hate October. It's the worst time of year in schools because school nurses start sending home children who haven't had their immunizations completed," I commented. Nick responded, "you need to meet a friend of mine." Weeks later, I had connected with Tine Hansen-Turton, and we had teamed with Nick to launch our new project of the nurse-managed, primary-care, school-based health center in Philadelphia. Within our team, Nick brings expertise of the educational system; Tine brings a history of health care policy and innovation; and I bring a knowledge of the inner workings of the Philadelphia public school system and student health. We opened the first school-based health center in the Pan American school in 2010, followed by the health center at Belmont Charter School in 2011.
Décrivez le but de votre initiative, en insistant sur les résultats que vous souhaitez obtenir
Our goal is simple, yet far-reaching: to see all students healthy, in school, and ready to learn. We are working to achieve this through expanding our model of nurse practitioner-managed school-based health care to the city of Philadelphia and beyond.
Jusqu'à ce jour, quels résultats a obtenu votre projet ?
Attendance rates increased from 94% to 99% at Pan American Academy after the first year of the health center’s implementation. During the 2010-2011 school year, Pan American Academy health center served more than 450 vulnerable students, with an average daily patient volume of 40 children. Following the tremendous success of the health center at Pan American, Education-Plus, Inc. and its partners opened a health center at Belmont Charter School in West Philadelphia which serves approximately 650 students, bringing the total number of students served in both schools to over 1,100.
Quelles sont vos prévisions en termes d'impact au cours des cinq prochaines années ?
The Education Plus Health school-based health centers in Philadelphia currently serve over 1,100 students total. There are over 154,482 public school students in Philadelphia, and 40,483 charter school students. We currently target charter schools, which represent about 26% of the public school system in the city. The potential customer base would be all charter schools in Philadelphia, and potentially beyond. Within five years we plan on scaling the model and opening 4 new school-based health centers, which would expand our reach to approximately 2,500 new students. We also plan on securing reimbursement for our students who are Medicaid-eligible.
Les meilleures propositions possèdent un programme solide détaillant leurs prévisions pour atteindre et suivre leurs objectifs de croissance. Identifiez vos objectifs à 6 mois pour accroître vos résultats
Secure Medicaid reimbursement funding.
Définissez les trois tâches principales à accomplir pour atteindre ces objectifs à six mois
Tâche 1
Master the use of electronic record system and track student health data.
Tâche 2
Fill financial gap for health centers through fundraising.
Tâche 3
Ensure that all eligible students are enrolled in state insurance plan.
Et maintenant, voyez les choses en plus grand ! Identifiez vos objectifs à 12 mois
Open a new school-based health center.
Définissez les trois tâches principales à accomplir pour atteindre vos objectifs à 12 mois
Tâche 1
Secure Medicaid reimbursement funding.
Tâche 2
Create new partnerships between charter schools and nurse practitioners.
Tâche 3
Fund-raise for start-up costs.
Viabilité
Quels sont vos différents partenariats ?
The school based health center is a partnership between Education Plus Health, the National Nursing Centers Consortium, Pan American Academy Charter School, Belmont Charter School and the Temple University College of Health Professions and Social Work Department of Nursing. The health centers are staffed by nurse practitioners/nursing professors from Temple University who are assisted by Temple nursing and public health students who are serving their curriculum-required clinical rotations.
Actuellement, votre projet cible-t-il d'autres populations, lieux ou marchés spécifiques ? Si oui, lesquels et pourquoi ?
We are targeting Philadelphia charter schools for the Education Plus Health school-based health center model; however, as state affiliate of the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC), we are also connected to the nationwide movement of school-based health care. Our target beneficiaries are medically under-served students, many of whom suffer from chronic diseases like asthma.
Quel environnement et quels facteurs organisationnels internes font la réussite de votre projet ?
The commitment and passion of our small team does not allow for the failure of our model of school-based health care. Each individual contributes a unique and crucial skill to the project: including nursing expertise, child health care, instruction and oversight, data tracking, foundation networking, advocacy, fundraising, mentorship, and fostering of new partnerships. With individuals so strongly committed to seeing better health of students in schools, our model of health care has seen substantial success and support in its first year and a half.
Expliquez plus en détails les besoins et les offres indiqués ci-dessus ou proposez un type d'aide non mentionné dans la liste
We are currently seeking wider support for our already-established model of school-based health care. This includes both financial support and additional partnerships.
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