MERRIAM, Kan. – The Shawnee Mission School District will soon have a new health clinic based inside one of its schools.
"If a child is sick and they're missing days of school, they're not going to be where they need to be in school," said Amy Falk, Health Partnership Clinic CEO.
Health Partnership Clinic is opening a federally qualified, school-based health center at Merriam Park Elementary School Tuesday.
The new site will be available for Shawnee Mission School District students to use and will provide general health services as well as behavioral and mental health services.
"We have the students that lack the transportation, or just lack the medical or behavioral health home, and so this was a way to bring that service to them," said Shelby Rebeck, Health Services Coordinator, Shawnee Mission School District.
The new center will see patients on Tuesday's from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. for walk-in health services, and on Wednesday's from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. for behavioral health services. The clinic will accept KanCare/Medicaid, commercial insurance and uninsured patients. A sliding-fee discount program is available to those who qualify.
HPC will service approximately 490 students from Merriam Park as well as students from other Shawnee Mission schools.
HPC currently operates clinics in Olathe, Shawnee, Paola, and Ottowa, Kansas.
To schedule a behavioral health appointment, parents should contact the school's building social worker, or call 913-993-6422.
