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Tyler Reddick (45) drives during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Sonoma Raceway, Sunday, June 9, 2024, in Sonoma, Calif.
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Tyler Reddick (45) drives during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Sonoma Raceway, Sunday, June 9, 2024, in Sonoma, Calif.
Tyler Reddick (45) drives during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Sonoma Raceway, Sunday, June 9, 2024, in Sonoma, Calif.
Tyler Reddick (45) drives during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Sonoma Raceway, Sunday, June 9, 2024, in Sonoma, Calif.
Last week was the end of classes for the school year but even with the end so near on Thursday, a child needed medical attention.
Zwaye Banton, a medical assistant, examined what turned out to be a case of poison ivy with the help of a medical professional who was sitting miles and miles away but seeing everything up close through digital tools.
Such technology has improved low-income children’s access to health care and also boosted their school attendance at 14 schools in Guilford County, school officials say, and it will be used in the coming school year at Hillcrest Elementary School in Burlington in a pilot project. If successful, the equipment could move into more of the Alamance-Burlington School System.
The Pro Smart Clinic equipment made by Tytocare, a leading maker of telehealth tools, can be operated at the school by a medical assistant, with a Cone Health professional — a doctor of a nurse practitioner — communicating by video with the medical assistant, the student and the student’s parent, who also can connect remotely. Everything the equipment records also is visible to the nurse practitioner.
Cone Health has been slowly adding Pro Smart Clinic equipment — which is contained in what essentially looks like a cash register drawer’s container with an iPad mounted on top — to elementary schools in Guilford County Schools since 2001.
Therman Flowers, the principal of Union Hill Elementary School in High Point, said that because young children are often sick and not infrequently injure themselves, the school’s telehealth clinic has had a big effect on attendance, which has a strong correlation with academic success.
“I’ve seen a really strong decrease in kids missing school,” he said.
Without the telehealth clinic, the school might have to call a parent to take a sick or injured student to a doctor’s office or an urgent care clinic, so the student could miss the rest of the school day and the parent misses time at work.
But with the clinic, the child stays at school, the parent can stay at work, and the child gets a full medical evaluation, Flowers said. Union Hill’s parents have come to believe in that system and how well it works for them, he said.
Flowers said it is a huge change from when he started working in education 29 years ago and a nurse might be in a school one day a week.
“This need is definitely a long time coming,” he said.
Banton, also at Union Hill, said she has used the Pro Smart Clinic for a variety of maladies, mostly minor ones.
“A lot of tummy aches. Headaches,” she said, pausing a moment. “Vomit. Ice packs. Those are the typical things you see here.”
Parents like the amount of information that is shared with them and their ability to interact with a health care provider, she said.
“It’s almost like they are here,” she said.
Michelle Schneider, Cone Health’s chief philanthropy officer, said that private donations have been key to the clinics’ function because Medicaid doesn’t cover all of the costs.
Cambro Manufacturing will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, June 12, for its new 380,000-square-foot distribution facility in Mebane.
The new building will be across from their current 500,000-square-foot manufacturing facility that opened less than 10 years ago. The company makes products for the food service industry.
“Mebane has been a great place for Cambro’s East Coast operations,” Cambro President and CEO Argyle Campbell said. “The community has been extremely welcoming and business-friendly. We look forward to our continued partnership with the city of Mebane.”
Equipped with 56 dock doors and 2 drive-in doors, the new facility will be climate-controlled with insulated tilt-up panels and an insulated roof. Over the next four years, Cambro expects to hire up to 60 additional employees for its Mebane operations.
The company was founded in Los Angeles in 1951. After 60 years of making and shipping all products from California, Cambro decided to expand to the East Coast to provide better customer service and faster delivery times Cambro for its customers in the Eastern U.S. and Canada.
In 2015, Cambro opened its first manufacturing and distribution facility in North Carolina with 60 employees.
Only three years later, Cambro expanded its operations to its current size to better accommodate demand. Cambro has 850 of its most popular products in stock, available for immediate shipment.
Cambro currently has job opportunities available at its North Carolina facility. Visit www.careers.cambro.com to apply today.