Sight Savers America and the KidCheck Program, which provides health screenings for children from kindergarten through high school, received a $100,000 from the Verizon Foundation. The grant will fund the hardware and software needed to make the process paperless. The grant will fund a repository where the program can store date. To date, KidCheck has been implemented in more than 35 Alabama school systems—with 20 Alabama two- and four-year nursing schools--have used te KidCheck program. The children pass through eight to 10 stations where nurses and nursing students screen for height and weight; heart, blood pressure and respiratory rates; and to provide eye, ear, nose and throat exams. Sight Savers provides case-managed follow-up care for children failing the vision screening.
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