Welcome back to School and to our Health Center

Our Health Center provides care during the regular school hours.  We are staffed by a nurse, a nurse practioner, and a mental health therapist.

Parents, if you would like to update your student’s health needs and give permission for your child to use the school-based health centers, please fill out the consent form and return it to the Sheldon Health Center.

CONSENT FORM 2010

 

We are pleased to have new staff this year in our Sheldon Health Center.  Kari Christiansen is our School Nurse.  Kathleen Ybanez joins us as our Health Assistant, and  Tricia Schroffner is our Nurse Practitioner who will be at both the Sheldon and North Clinics.

Summer 2011

Hello friends of the Health Center.  Hard to believe we’re facing the end of the school year this week.   We made do with lots of changes this year.  Highlights were our vibrant TAC students and Benefit committee that put on the 5th annual Hands for Health Benefit this past May, raising $26,000.  Outstanding help from our community of supporters, making health care more accessible.   We saw lots of children this year.  See “who we saw” below.

As our 2010-2011 school year winds down, so does our health center.  Our last day to see students will be Thursday, June 16, 2010.   We will close for the summer and re-open when the new school year starts in the fall, 2011.

We hope everyone will enjoy the summer as a time to make friends, explore the world, read good books, and tend your gardens.

~The Sheldon Health Center staff                          

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Here are some resources for summer health care:

Community Health Centers of Lane County:  Call 541.682.3550 to make an appointment for clinics in Springfield and Eugene

–Springfield HS Clinic, 1050 10th St., Springfield, OR      541.682.3550

–Riverstone Health Center, 1640 G St., Springfield, OR   541.682.3550

–Charnelton Community Clinic, 151 West 7th, Eugene, OR   541.682.3550

–Lane County Mental Health Primary Care,  2411 Martin Luther King Blvd., Eugene, OR   541.682.3550

 

PeaceHealth Check-up: 67 W. 29th Ave (inside the Market of Choice, pay up front, no billing)   541.222.7190

Child & Adolescent Mental Health Crisis Response Program:  1.888.989.9990

Mental Health 24 hour Crisis Hotlines:

–Looking Glass:  541.689.3111

–White Bird:  541.687.4000

Who we saw this past year

Eugene “My School Health Centers” for September 2010 to March 2011

Overview of children attending clinics (all four clinics):

2,580 students

3,494 visits

732 students are uninsured

587 students who participate in the Oregon Health Plan

 

Types of visits

359 children had wellness exams

389 children had immunizations

743 mental health consultations

11 students received social services

39 students have had eye exams, consultations and glasses

183 children referred to medical practitioners for further care—due to this care only 8 children referred to the emergency room

Healthy Kids Learn Better

January 2011 is School-Based Health Center Awareness Month.  Oregon’s 54 School-Based Health Centers provide accessible, quality health care and prevention services to thousands of children and adolescents.  Learn more by visiting www.osbhcn.org.

Vaccines available

The Sheldon Health Center has vaccines available to all children in Eugene.

We offer all the required vaccines the students need, as well as some optional vaccines as well.  We also have the seasonal flu shots that cover both the H1N1 virus, and the regular flu virus, in just one dose.  We currently DO NOT carry the nasal spray form of the vaccine.  The flu shot is available to all children under the age of 19.  Unfortunately this year we are unable to offer flu shots for adults.

We can bill insurance, as well as offer sliding scale payments. No one is turned away for an inability to pay.

Please come by and see us if you have questions or in need of a vaccine. We are here for you!

My School’s Health Center

 is located in Sheldon High School

2455 Willakenzie Road

Eugene, OR  97401

Phone:  541.790.6644                                     Fax:  541.790.6647

My School’s Health Center at Sheldon is a non-profit health care provider for children, birth to age 18.  The health center is financially supported by the Eugene School  District 4J, State of Oregon, private donations and grants.  You can support the work of the Sheldon Health Center with a tax deductible donation to Sheldon Health Center, at 2455 Willakenzie Road, Eugene, OR  97401.