Disrupting that cycle by empowering school nurses is the mission of the MUSC Center for Telehealth’s school-based telehealth program. Poor health translates to chronic absenteeism and a higher dropout rate. The vicious cycle repeats for another generation—poverty prevents proper health care, and poor health hampers students from graduating and breaking free of poverty.
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Kelli Garber, MSN, is the Lead Nurse Practitioner for School-Based Health and the Center for Telehealth at the Medical University of South Carolina. Ms. Garber is responsible for providing direct patient care to children across the state ...
