Another strategy offers students and families support through wellness clinics such as the one that just opened adjacent to Jordan High in Watts. It will serve students as well as an estimated 1,000 nearby comm
dental, hearing and scoliosis checks. There also are tuberculosis tests and immunization programs. School nurses who are nurse practitioners, which means they have had an additional year of training, also handle the physicals for sports.
Tim Wakefield did not have a hall of fame major league baseball career, but he certainly had a coveted one. He was a part of the “curse-breaking” Red Sox team that finally won the world series in 2004. Red Sox fans had suffered for 86 years before Wakefield’s team broke the suppos...