Yavapai Regional Medical Center - Partners for Healthy Students

What is it?

Partners for Healthy Students (PHS) is a school-based health service that provides free medical and urgent/emergent dental care to uninsured or underinsured children at 26 participating schools in three area school districts and charter schools. In 2014, PHS will be expanding its service to include the communities surrounding Mayer, Kirkland and the Chino Valley/Paulden area. The program will be adding additional staff and operating out of a mobile medical clinic funded by a federal grant for school-based clinics. The clinics are administered by a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and licensed by the Arizona Department of Health Services. Services range from diagnosis and treatment of illness, management of chronic illness, well-child visits, sports physicals and prescription medicines ordered by the Nurse Practitioner. Acceptance of the clinic’s services is voluntary, and parental consent and participation are program requirements.

Who is it for?

Children who attend one of the participating schools, and their younger siblings, if they are uninsured or underinsured (deductibles higher than $2,500). In outlying schools that will be serviced by the mobile medical clinic, children who are uninsured or Medicaid-eligible.

Why do they do it?

The intent of PHS is to reduce the human and financial costs that can result when a child’s health care is delayed or missed entirely. Healthy children feel better, perform better in school, are better able to enjoy life, and have a better chance of growing into healthy adults.

Impact

Since its founding in 1999, PHS has provided health care services to more than 5,000 children and is currently providing more than 1,100 visits each year at no cost to these families.

Contact: Robbie Nicol
Director of Development and Community Relations
Telephone: 928-771-5686
E-mail: rxnicol@yrmc.org