JPS Health Network ran clinics at four FWISD schools until 2021. Then the hospital began sending kids to Cook Children’s.
Kids at Eastern Hills Elementary School in Fort Worth will soon be able to get vaccines and other care at a campus-based clinic.A Fort Worth elementary school is set to become the site of a new pediatric clinic under a partnership with the University of North Texas Health Science Center.
The Fort Worth Independent School District’s board voted Tuesday to approve the partnership, which will allow the medical school to begin providing care atDr. Christina Robinson, medical director of UNT HSC’s Pediatric Mobile Clinic program, told the Star-Telegram that the medical school willat the school over the next few months, and will begin offering comprehensive medical care next spring.
Robinson said the goal of the UNT HSC program isn’t to reopen every clinic JPS closed. Program leaders don’t yet know if there will be more campus-based clinics in the coming months and years, she said. The medical school decided to partner with Eastern Hills because the elementary school is in a part of the city without easy access to pediatric services, she said. The nearest Cook Children’s neighborhood clinic is about six miles away.
“This was kind of a perfect opportunity,” Robinson said. “There’s space available, there is need there, there were community partners and collaborations that already existed. And so it was really just kind of a perfect solution.” While the clinic at Eastern Hills was approved with no board discussion and relatively little public attention, other districts have gotten pushback from parents when trying to implement similar plans. When alast summer, parents and other residents voiced concerns during the meeting’s public comment period. Several described the clinic as a “Pandora’s Box” that would lead to greater district overreach, the Texas Tribune reported.
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