New program puts nurses into charter schools
Student Timothy Hagan, 14, (left) checks his blood sugar levels while working with school nurse Angela Lawson at Bluff City High School. After a year of embedding full-time school nurses in Green Dot Schools, nonprofit LifeDoc discovered students with problems ranging from hypertension to poor vision. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
And what those health care professionals have found is a staggering number of students overweight and suffering from stage 1 or 2 hypertension.
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Green Dot Public Schools LifeDoc nurses school nurses Emily Baldwin Pedro Velasquez Pedro A Velázquez-Mieyer Lifedoc research obesityAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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