Nursing Program Gets Grant To Set Up School-Based Clinic

By Jessica Portner

In keeping with the Clinton Administration's emphasis on school-based health care, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department has awarded a $1 million grant to the St. Xavier University School of Nursing to establish a primary-care health center at an elementary school in one of the poorest sections of Chicago.

When it opens in March, the Family Nursing Center at the William E. Gladstone Elementary School will be the first of two school-based nurse-training centers set up with funding from federal grants announced last month.

The other program, at the University of California at Los Angeles, also will establish a training center for nurses...