Chair Schulman on school selection for asthma case management expansion
Deputy Commissioner Leniak explains the expansion to 15 additional Bronx schools selected based on K-8 grade level, on-site health staff, poorly controlled asthma populations, and location in MTA-identified environmental justice communities.
Okay, you answered this a little bit.
How will the $11.1 million expansion of the asthma case management program be implemented in Bronx schools?
And I'm going to ask,
criteria will be used to select the additional 15 schools participating in the program.
I'm going to turn it over to Deputy Commissioner Lydia Ledniak for more on that.
Thank you for the question.
So the asthma case management program will be expanding to an additional 15 schools in the Bronx.
So really the overall goal, just like with the current asthma case management program, is to control asthma, which is to prevent asthma exacerbations,
to reduce hospitalizations, and to ultimately reduce the number of days missed at school.
So a structured approach was utilized to select the schools, and I have that here, which is one, that
we are looking for a general education K through eighth grade school, that there is a office of school health doctor and nurse on site,
that there is a large population in that school with poorly controlled asthma,
where the population is at risk of poor asthma outcomes, as well as the school is located in the environmental justice communities.
Identified by the MTA in the Bronx.
Okay, that's great.