Finding Solutions: New clinic opens at Aiken County high school
AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - When you’re sick, you want to get to the clinic as soon as you can, but that’s simply not possible for everyone based on where you live.
For kids who go to school in Wagener, they now have a closer option thanks to Rural Health Services in Aiken.
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We told you last summer about Rural Health Services opening a new clinic tailored around women and children.
It’s a non-profit health center serving Aiken County and surrounding areas.
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Now, it has partnered with Wagener-Salley High School to offer health services inside the school.
Its clinic is open twice a week for elementary, middle, and high school students in the area.
School officials say this is beneficial because the closest clinic is at least 30 minutes away, and they have space inside their newly opened school.
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“Right now, the service is for high school, elementary, and middle school students. If they are sick, the purpose is to have this to where they can come in, be seen and go back to school,” said Rasheem Neloms, Wagener-Salley High School principal. “Eventually, we want to expand it to where it can be open to the community also, but we want to initially do it for kids.”
The clinic is open right now inside the school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and it wants more people to know it’s there.
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“It’s a very comforting feeling knowing that I can help be a part of something larger than myself by expanding our reach into the community because it’s something people need,” said Sierra Sheppard, pubic relations specialist and event coordinator for Rural Health Services.
It provides care for acute illnesses, chronic conditions, testing for strep, flu or COVID-19 to vaccines and sports physicals. All parents in the area have to do is fill out a form for their child.
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Aiken Barnwell Mental Health is also in the clinic weekly, offering its services.
Eventually, it wants to expand the clinic to the community.
For more information, you can visit Rural Health Services website here.
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