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Published: March 01 2012

The Children’s Mobile Health Center, which is owned by Memorial Healthcare System, is in the process of visiting 17 of the District’s Title I elementary and middle schools to provide free primary and preventive health care services to eligible students.  Services are funded by a federal school-based health center grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Memorial Healthcare personnel are providing immunizations, vision, hearing and obesity screenings, physical examinations and well child exams.  When a pediatrician is present, sick child exams are also available.

Schools scheduled for visits include:  Bethune, Oakridge, Orange Brook, Hallandale, Watkins, Lake Forest, Colbert, Stirling, Sheridan Hills and A.C. Perry elementary schools and Attucks, Olsen, Apollo, Driftwood, Gulfstream, McNicol and H.D. Perry middle schools.

The mobile unit will be making a stop at the Kathleen C. Wright Administration Center (600 SE Third Avenue, Fort Lauderdale) during the March 6 School Board meeting.  School Board members will tour the mobile unit at approximately 2:15 p.m.

For more information, parents should contact their school.

Media are welcome to tour the mobile unit during the March 6 visit to the Kathleen C. Wright Administration Center.

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