{"id":370,"date":"2012-12-11T05:09:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T05:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnof.org\/?p=370"},"modified":"2013-05-06T12:57:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T12:57:17","slug":"68-schools-2-nurses-1-secretary-1-mini-van-lots-of-free-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/gnof\/68-schools-2-nurses-1-secretary-1-mini-van-lots-of-free-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"68 Schools, 2 Nurses, 1 Secretary, 1 Mini Van &#038; Lots of Free Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F88147679\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You may have seen the Greater New Orleans Immunization Network\u2019s big white bus parked around town, maybe in front of a grocery store or a strip mall. It\u2019s been around since 1998, offering free vaccinations to boost the immunization rate for young children. But, network director Charmaine Allesandro says it was only after Hurricane Katrina that it became clear just how much work the program still had to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing Katrina there were so many school-age children coming to our mobile unit without any shot record at all,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd the parent would say, \u2018I had a copy but my house flooded, the doctor\u2019s office flooded, the school flooded.\u2019 So we had thousands of children who had no evidence of ever having been vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So the Immunization Network started going directly to New Orleans-area schools, and here the situation proved more alarming still.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we found was, in some cases, for example I remember one school in New Orleans East that I think had something like 12 to 15 percent of their children were up to date on immunizations. Well that\u2019s a disaster waiting to happen I think. And as I recall we had one high school on the West Bank that was even lower than that,\u201d says Roger Gorman, director of development at Children\u2019s Hospital, which oversees the Immunization Network.<\/p>\n<p>Gorman says some of these students had been vaccinated and simply had no record of it, but it still pointed to a huge pubic health need, one with far-reaching consequences for children, families and the whole health care system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTypically, for every dollar you spend immunizing children, you save 27 dollars. And in a state like ours, that is not exactly the wealthiest state in the country, those savings are very important,\u201d says Gorman.<\/p>\n<p>The issue, says Allesandro, is usually a combination of education and access \u2013 and a lack of both. Too many parents don\u2019t regularly bring their children to see a doctor, she says, they don\u2019t know which shots they need and they don\u2019t know where to start. The answer for the network was to bring free immunization services to the schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s easy for parents,\u201d Gorman says. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to take time off from work, you don\u2019t have to make a doctor\u2019s appointment, all you have to do is sign the permission slip and your child can get the shot at school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school immunization program started in 2007 in seven schools. Today, it serves 68 schools, relying on just two nurses, a secretary, a mini van and free vaccines provided through federal health programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used to see 1,000 kids a year, last year we saw 14,000 kids through our mobile unit, then we saw another 10,000 kids through our school program,\u201d Allesandro says. \u201cWe\u2019re giving just under 38,000 shots a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s adding up to healthier children, fewer emergency room visits, and less risk for others, like the elderly and infants too young to be vaccinated. It\u2019s been so successful that Gorman says Children\u2019s Hospital is now seeking funding for a children\u2019s vision testing program based on its model.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think this will have a similar impact on children\u2019s vision here in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Ian McNulty for the Community IMPACT Series and produced by WWNO in partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation. 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