Operationalizing the Bridge Care Model-Advocating for At-Risk Students.

This article focuses on the implementation of the Bridge Care Model through an innovative and unique partnership between an academic nurse-mananaged clinic network and a local school system. Through collaboration, data analysis, and process planning, these partners established a Memorandum of Agreement allowing each to address their programmatic missions, visions, and goals to meet the needs of at-risk, uninsured, vulnerable students and to remove barriers to school entry. Through this mutually beneficial approach, direct health services were provided at an on-site, central student registration location through a cost-effective, sustainable partnership. This article highlights how implementation of the Bridge Care model at a central student registration site allowed a local school system to reduce barriers to school entry for vulnerable at-risk students; provide access to medical navigation support for uninsured families; and create a streamlined communication system to allow school-based staff to support students with significant physical and behavioral health needs following enrollment. PMID: 30808782 [PubMed - in process]
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