Nurse practitioner program in high schools secures new funding
Hundreds of Hamilton’s most vulnerable teens have visited a nurse practitioner right in their high school.
The program at Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School and Cathedral High School has been quiet about its success for the last four years because it was always in danger of shutting down.
It could not get dedicated funding despite a wide variety of health and community organizations agreeing a nurse practitioner was desperately needed in the high schools of the city’s poorest neighbourhoods with high newcomer and aboriginal populations.
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