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 covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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