![]() The program would start with on-demand telehealth, the foundational SchoolMed service that integrates virtual visits with a licensed provider into the school health room. “We developed a plan on how to roll it out with campuses and nurses that wanted to start with it.”Īn innovator and early SchoolMed adopter, Fort Worth ISD was searching for a comprehensive healthcare partner to improve health equity and access to care for its more than 76,000 students across 140 campuses. ![]() “We started out having those conversations and learning about the program,” said Ottis Goodwin, FWISD Director of Family and Community Resources. It’s also the experience that Fort Worth ISD was in search of when it selected Goodside Health and SchoolMed as its school-based healthcare partner in August 2020. The Wolsey’s experience was precisely what the team at Goodside Health had in mind when it established the innovative SchoolMed program. “To get to skip all of that and have the diagnosis and medication and on our way to health right there was priceless.” That would have been a delay in starting treatment by 24 hours, so that would have been another day tacked onto an absence,” said Amanda. “It would have been 24 hours from the time I picked him up to the time I got him to the doctor. Within a few minutes, her son had his symptoms evaluated and received a point-of-care test for strep throat, which came back positive.Įquipped with a diagnosis, plan of care, and prescription picked up from the local pharmacy, Amanda had everything she needed to get her son on the pathway back to health by the time she picked him up from school. “When Nurse Cavazos called, and said that his throat felt scratchy, that was new to me because I assumed it was his tummy,” said Amanda, a mom of four school-aged children.Īmanda’s son was registered for SchoolMed, and Nurse Cavazos initiated a telehealth visit with a Goodside Health provider right from the school clinic. Around noon, Amanda received a text that her son had gone to see the school nurse. Watch the story of Amanda and Witt and learn about their SchoolMed experience at Tanglewood Elementary School.ĪUSTIN and FORT WORTH, Texas, AugWhen Amanda Wolsey’s son returned to Tanglewood Elementary School following a two-day absence for a stomach bug, she asked the teacher to keep her updated on his condition throughout the day.
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