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Andersen ClinicAndersen Schools of Many Voices is one of the first full-service, school-based clinics and is next to Abbott Northwestern Hospital. The clinic began as a joint project of Abbott Northwestern, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics-Minneapolis, and a coalition of health maintenance organizations. The clinic, now managed by Children’s Hospitals and Clinics, has regular contracts with HMOs, and has enrolled more children in Medical Assistance, bringing the percentage of uninsured children down from 35 to 22. The school-based clinic not only provides health care to school children, but is an important data resource on health care delivery and health outcomes for health systems addressing under-served kids. The clinic is also an opportunity to test of a new health care delivery model. Many of the children at the school have no permanent primary care clinic, and providing preventive health care before was difficult. A study of how the clinic has influenced asthma outcomes shows that it has successfully reduced hospitalizations for asthma by 75 to 80 percent. Outpatient visits for care without asthma symptoms have doubled, and the percentage of students seeing a specialist for asthma has increased. For more information about the Andersen Clinic or to start your own school clinic, contact Ruth Hampton, director, South Area Family Resource Center, 612-668-4281 or Katy Schalla, nurse practitioner, 612-668-4222.
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Abbott Northwestern Hospital
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