DPS Offers Immunizations, Health Screenings
DETROIT (WWJ) - Detroit Public Schools is partnering with St John Health Systems to provide free health screenings and immunizations at two schools during the final week of the holiday break.
Schools spokeswoman Jennifer Mrozowski said state funding would be in jeopardy if DPS falls below the 95 percent immunization level.
"We actually have that right now -- 95 percent of our students are immunized," Mrozowski told WWJ Newsradio 950's Florence Walton. "However, sometimes the level falls off a little around this time of the year when students are not updated with their shots for December and January."
"We have to have 95 percent of our students immunized by February 1 in order to secure all of our state funding," she said.
Nurse Practitioner Johnnie Hamilton who runs the health clinic at Marcus Garvey Academy on Van Dyke.
"We provide children with well care, sick care, we do physicals, a full line of immunizations and anything else the child needs," she said. "We do refer to St. John (hospital) if we have things that we can't do here."
Free immunizations for Medicaid-eligible students is also being offered at Osborn High School through Thursday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Immunizations available include Tetanus boosters, flu, HPV, Hepatitis A and B, Polio, MMR and Varicella (Chickenpox).
