"A lot of tummy aches," Zwaye Banton tells the New York Times.
"Vomit.
Ice packs.
Those are the typical things you see here."
Banton is a medical assistant at a school in High Point, NC, who works remotely with a nurse practitioner who is a doctor of nurse practitioner remotely, using an iPad mounted on top of what "essentially looks like a cash register drawer," the Guilford County News & Observer reports.
The Pro Smart Clinicwhich has been installed at 14 elementary schools in Guilford County since 2001operates using medical assistants, a doctor of nurse practitioner, and a nurse practitioner who communicates with the medical assistant, the student, and the student's parent via video.
"It's almost like they are here," a philanthropy officer for Cone Health, the company that has been installing the equipment, tells the News & Observer.
"Parents like the amount of information that is shared with them and their ability to interact with a health care provider."
Union Hill Elementary School principal Therman Flowers tells the Times that he's seen a "really strong decrease in kids missing school" thanks to the telehealth clinic, and that it's a huge change from when he started working in education 29 years ago, when a nurse
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