by Diana Procopis | Nov 6, 2020 | News
Only one in four students have returned to classrooms. The remainder have two weeks left to decide if they’ll go back, too. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that parents would have until Nov. 15 to decide whether to enroll their children in hybrid learning, a mixture of...
by Diana Procopis | Oct 23, 2020 | News
As children head back to city schools, Urban Health Plan is looking to address COVID-19 concerns for families across the South Bronx. Dr. Viju Jacob, medical director for Urban Health Plan’s school-based health programs, is trying to ensure that the clinics are...
by Diana Procopis | Oct 20, 2020 | News
The absence of outbreaks, if it holds, suggests that the city’s efforts to return children to classrooms could serve as an influential model for the nation. Out of 16,348 staff members and students tested randomly by the school system in the first week of its testing...
by Diana Procopis | Oct 14, 2020 | News
Today, under the leadership of President Trump, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), is announcing $20 billion in new funding for providers on the frontlines of the coronavirus...
by Diana Procopis | Oct 11, 2020 | News
New York School-Based Health Foundation Intern, Sarah Bacio, speaks to School-Based health professionals who share their impressions on the use of telehealth for administering care to at-risk students in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the mid-April peak of the...
