| Health Promotion through Collaboration
Our Health Promotion Center is a unique collaboration between Mercy Medical Center, Mount Mercy College's Department of Nursing, and All Saints Elementary, Regis Middle, and Xavier High Schools. The Health Promotion Centers are a first such program in Iowa. The purposes of the Centers include health education, illness management, health screenings and health-promotion activities at the three schools. The Centers are funded primarily by Mercy Medical Center and Mount Mercy College.
The goals of the Health Promotion Centers are:
- Emphasize health promotion
- Meet health needs of the students
- Provide community-based clinical experience in a school setting for Mount Mercy College nursing students
- Expand Mercy Medical Center's commitment to community-based outreach programs
A Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a registered nurse with a master's degree in nursing. The NP at the Health Promotion Center works with your child's primary -care provider, including physicians and other health-care professionals, to enhance your family health-care provider's care.
A NP may:
- Assess, diagnose and prescribe for childhood and adolescent illnesses
- Perform assessments
- Coordinate care of common chronic illnesses
- Help families meet their health-care needs
- Refer to community health-care providers as necessary
Health Promotion Centers provide the following laboratory testing:
- Rapid strep testing
- Throat cultures for strep
- Blood-glucose monitoring
Helath Promotion Centers offer many services, including:
- Immunizations for influenza, Hepatitis B
- Nutrition education
- Height, weight, and blood pressure monitoring
- Health fairs
- Parent education events
- Peer education
- Substance abuse education
- Puberty education
- CPR instruction
- TB testing
- Newsletters to parents
Nominal fees for use of the Health Promotion Centers are included in school tuition.
For more information on the Helath Promotion Centers call Regis Middle School
319-363-1968
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