Annual Pub 2024 accessible 07262024 (1) - Flipbook - Page 53
SUMMER 2024 MAGAZINE
In two school-based clinics, school of medicine faculty provide
healthcare to the students of the Clark County School District
(CCSD) who, otherwise, would not receive any due to onancial,
transportation, cultural/language, or other barriers. By providing
healthcare in local school-based clinics, the physicians make
sure these students and their families are better able to thrive
academically, socially, mentally, and physically. Students do not
miss as many classes, parents do not have to miss work and,
overall, the community succeeds when these students receive
healthcare they may not otherwise receive. Faculty provide services
at the CCSD Family Support Center (FSC) and in the Dr. Gopal &
Jeanette Das Healthcare Clinic at William H. Bailey Middle School.
Since these school-based clinics opened between 2022 and 2023,
nearly 3,000 students have been seen by our faculty physicians
and residents.
Lyanna LaFredo, MD, assistant professor in the department of
pediatrics and the medical director for the clinic at the FSC, sees
the role that the faculty play as indispensable to an underserved
community.
