Provide health assessments, screening services, referral and follow-up of diagnosed or suspected health problems, medication administration, immunization, health record maintenance and review, emergency health services and health education.

• Promote Improved student health,
• Support academic achievement, and
• Decrease student involvement in drug/alcohol abuse, suicide/homicide, and other forms of risk-taking behavior.

Provide a continuum of health and social services to children in schools designated high-risk. Full Service Schools engage in partnerships with private and non-profit community-based health and social service provides.

The Northeast High School Clinic (NEHS) is a partnership between the Pinellas County Health Department, All Children’s Hospital, the Pinellas County School System, the Juvenile Welfare Board, and Northeast High School administration. The clinic provides healthcare services on the school campus. The clinic is funded by the Juvenile Welfare Board.

The mission of the NEHS clinic is to maintain, improve and provide preventive health care to the NEHS students, allowing them to receive the maximum benefit from their high school education.

The clinic provides health and mental health care services to students who either have limited access to or under utilize health care services as a result of lack of health insurance, inadequate insurance, or limited financial resources. The goal is to reduce the number of missed classes and school drop-out due to illnesses and health risk behaviors.

The clinic is not a substitute for the student’s primary care doctor, but works with the provider making it easier for the child to get care. Delivering healthcare on site reduces the time the student misses school and provides support to working parents who don’t have to miss work or delay seeking health services due to work or transportation constraints.

Services are free, confidential, and offered on a walk-in and an appointment basis, during school hours and after school dismissal for illnesses, sports and school physicals, check-ups, STD examinations, accidents/injuries, medication administration, immunizations, education, social service counseling and education, mental health care, and nutritional counseling.

Students less than 18 years of age are required to have written parental consent to receive program services. A hall pass is required for each visit with the exception of during an assigned lunch time or after school hours.

The clinic is open year-round including the summer, with the exception of school holidays. Clinic hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 7:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M. and 1:30-3:30 P.M. and 7:00A.M.-12:15 P.M. on Wednesdays. For more details, please call (727) 570-3151.

Services are provided by a team of health and human service professionals. The Pinellas County Health Department provides full and part time staff, which includes a social service counselor, Licensed Practical Nurse, and an office manager, as well as a part-time Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP) and part-time clerk.

Other staff from community partner agencies includes a pediatrician from the All Children’s Adolescent Medicine Program medical residents and students from the University of South Florida, as well as a nutritionist and mental health counselor.