{"id":1059,"date":"2012-11-05T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T19:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2012-11-05T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T19:15:15","slug":"kqed-education-oakland-schools-providing-education-and-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/11\/05\/kqed-education-oakland-schools-providing-education-and-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"KQED Education: Oakland Schools Providing Education–and Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>November 2, 2012
\nBy Caitlin Esch<\/p>\n

In Oakland, schools are partnering with community health organizations to open\u00a0clinics on campuses. On Thursday, the district\u00a0celebrated its 14th such opening at West Oakland Middle School.\u00a0 KQED’s Caitlin Esch visited a school-based clinic that opened a year ago to see how\u00a0it\u2019s changing the community.<\/p>\n

The health center at Havenscourt Middle School is a cross between a\u00a0pediatrician\u2019s office and a teen clinic. Nurse practitioner Karen\u00a0Gersten-Rothenberg says students can get sports physicals, vaccines, and pregnancy tests. They can even get their cavities filled.<\/p>\n

“For some students, we are the primary care\u00a0provider,” Gersten-Rothenberg says. “Many students don\u2019t have access to primary care because\u00a0they\u2019re not insurable, because they’re undocumented.”<\/p>\n

The clinic sees up to 50 students a week. The district is hoping\u00a0on-site health centers will cut down on absenteeism.<\/p>\n

“We see a student, they go right back to class,” says Gersten-Rothenberg. “When a student has to go a doctor in the community, they\u2019re likely to\u00a0miss at least half the day, if not the full day.”<\/p>\n

The district will study whether access to health clinics at schools improves academic performance and reduces trips to the emergency room.<\/p>\n

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November 2, 2012 By Caitlin Esch In Oakland, schools are partnering with community health organizations to open\u00a0clinics on campuses. On Thursday, the district\u00a0celebrated its 14th such opening at West Oakland Middle School.\u00a0 KQED’s Caitlin Esch visited a school-based clinic that opened a year ago to see how\u00a0it\u2019s changing the community. The health center at Havenscourt … Continue reading KQED Education: Oakland Schools Providing Education–and Health Care<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,65,77,105],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","tag-american-graduate","tag-health","tag-kqed","tag-oakland-schools"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}