UI student initiates effort to get kids ready for fall
By Jodi Heckel
Monday April 24, 2006
Heather Coit
Ten-year-old Ayonna Britt is comforted by University of Illinois nursing instructor LiAnne Kitchen as nursing student Kim Buzecky administers vaccinations at Garden Hills Elementary School in Champaign on Friday. Ayonna, a fourth-grader, was getting immunizations required to enter fifth grade.
CHAMPAIGN – Each fall, the staff at Garden Hills scrambles to ensure that all its kindergarten and fifth-grade students have their required physicals and immunizations.
Often, about 30 percent of the fifth-grade class at Garden Hills starts the school year without the required medical care, said Principal Cheryl O'Leary. More than 900 children throughout the district were out of compliance at the beginning of this school year, she said.
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