Grants

School-Based Adolescent Health Care Program (Istrouma H.S. & Westdale M.S.)

The Foundation's School-Based Adolescent Health Care Program was designed to strengthen the capacity of communities and families to meet the multiple health and health-related needs of adolescents by utilizing local public secondary schools as a principal locus of care.This is a 2nd-phase grant awarded under the 19-site national program, to provide comprehensive health services to the 1,153 adolescents at Istrouma H.S. and 656 adolescents at Westdale Middle School. The clinic is staffed by part-time LSU faculty/residents, part-time LSU faculty psychology consultants, full-time NP, RN, and social worker. Medical services and health education will be performed on-site with ob/gyn prenatals, complicated VD problems, etc., referred to the backup hospital, Earl K. Long Hospital.

Grant Details

Amount Awarded $400,000.00

Awarded on: 5/11/1989

Time frame: 7/1/1989 - 6/30/1993

Grant Number: 15241

Grantee

Louisiana State University Medical Center

Earl K. Long Medical Center
5825 Airline Highway
Baton Rouge, LA, 70805-2408

225-358-1000
Website

Holley Galland
Project Director

504-358-1063

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