Nationwide Children’s School Based Health Center
Shelby City Schools partners with Nationwide Children’s Hospital to provide students with the same health care they would receive at a doctor’s office – right at school. The Nationwide Children’s school-based health center is located inside the Shelby Board of Education Building (109 West Smiley Ave) and is open to all Shelby students and community members, ages 0 to 21.
To schedule an appointment, call (567) 307-6009, option 3, or complete the consent form below. A hospital staff member will be in touch with more details.
Hours
The school-based health center is open during the school day. Hours may vary.
- Primary Care – Open Monday through Thursday
Location
Shelby Board of Education Building
109 West Smiley Ave, Shelby, OH 44875
Services
Services are available to all Shelby City Schools’ students and community members, ages 0 to 21. These services are not meant to replace your child’s existing pediatrician or family doctor.
The school-based health care center can:
- Help when your child has a sore throat, bad cough, earache, headache
- Perform checkups (well visits)
- Give shots (vaccines)
- Do blood work
- Send medication to the pharmacy
- Provide sports physicals
- Treat asthma
- Treat anxiety, depression and ADHD
- Connect you with a doctor
- Treat diabetes
- And more!
Nurse Practitioner
Melisa Oberdier, School & Mobile Health Services Primary Care, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Nationwide Children’s Educational Resources
Is Your Child Too Sick to Go to School?
Going to school regularly is important for your child to learn and grow.
If they’re sick and you’re not sure if they should go to school – this guide can help.
Your child can go to school if they:
- Don’t feel their best but can still participate in normal activities
- Have mild cold symptoms (stuffy nose, coughing a little) that are getting better
- Have started head lice treatment. If lice is found on your child at school, they DO NOT need to be sent home. They can finish the school day and return the next day, if treatment was started.
Call your child’s doctor, health care provider or the school-based health center if they have:
- Fever that lasts more than two days
- Vomiting that lasts more than two days
- Symptoms lasting over one week without getting better
- Ear pain or sore throat with painful swallowing
- Breathing symptoms that are getting worse
- Blood in poop
Keep your child home if they have:
- Fever of 100.4F (38C) or higher
- Return after 24 hours fever-free without fever reducing medicine
- Extreme tiredness or weakness (common with flu)
- Loose poop (diarrhea)
- Bloody poop OR
- Two or more poops than normal for them
- Vomiting more than two times in 24 hours
- Cough that limits normal activity
- Wheezing or trouble breathing
- Pain (ear, head, throat or injury) that limits activity
- Yellow or green eye drainage
- New rash or draining skin sores
- Especially if they can’t be covered with a bandage
You can support your child through mild illness to help them stay in school. Eating nutritious food, drinking plenty of fluids and using over the counter medications, when appropriate, can help them stay in the classroom.
To schedule an appointment at the school-based health center, visit NationwideChildrens.org/RCS or call (614) 355-2590, option 3.
Frequently Asked Questions
Services include help when your child as a sore throat, bad cough, bad headache, shots (immunizations), blood work, sports physicals, work permit physicals, yearly checkups, treatment of asthma and ADHD, and more.
Children and young adults ages 0 to 21 can be seen at the center.
Yes, just like a doctor’s office, we accept Medicaid and other insurance. No child will be denied care due to inability to pay for services.
A consent form from Nationwide Children’s will be provided. This must be signed and returned before your child can be seen at the center.
Yes. You will be contacted before your child receives any services from the center.
Yes. Parents/guardians are welcome to be on the phone during the visit.
Yes. An After Visit Summary (AVS) will be printed and given to your student or you can request for it to be mailed to your home. The AVS can also be accessed electronically via MyChart.
Parents/guardians can schedule an appointment, the school nurse can refer them to the center, or students who have completed a consent form on file can request an appointment themselves.
The health center is funded through a capital grant awarded to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in 2022 by the Ohio Department of Health and Ohio Department of Education.
To see a full list of Nationwide Children’s services in the Mansfield community, please visit NationwideChildrens.org/Mansfield
