Washington, D.C., Officials Apply For Federal Grant To Add More Nurses To Schools

 

Washington, D.C. officials, in conjunction with Children's National Medical Center, are seeking a $7 million CMS grant to help place school nurses at 75% of the district's public and charter schools by early 2007, the Washington Post reports. Currently, 63 of the district's schools have full-time nurses, while the remaining 107 schools have part-time visiting nurses. The grant would increase the annual budget for school health services to nearly $21 million and allow the city to hire full- and part-time nurses to treat children with special needs. According to the hospital, 2,010 students in D.C. schools need special medical care for health problems including sickle cell disease, brain tumors, cystic fibrosis and lupus, asthma, allergies and eczema, the Post reports. The funding also would allow D.C. schools to purchase computers, cots, scales, vision screening machines and other equipment. City officials will know by the end of November if the grant request was approved (Stewart, Washington Post, 9/19).

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