Through a partnership with Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, high quality pediatric care for your KIPPster is right down the hall! The Rales Health Center is a one-of-its kind school health program with wellness staff, high quality nursing, and a school-based health center located inside our school across from the main office.
Health Information for Current KIPP Families
Learn More About KIPP’s Rales Health Center:
Each day, a healthcare provider (our pediatrician or our nurse practitioner), two nurses, and a medical assistant are available to care for KIPPsters at the Rales Health Center.
The nurses provide school nursing services to all students. With your permission, the doctor and nurse practitioner can provide well child care and emergency care if your child is sick or injured. The Rales Health Center also offers care for children with chronic health issues like asthma, allergies, or ADHD.
Learn MoreWhat services can students get at the Rales Health Center?
- Treatment for minor illnesses and injuries
- Health education
- Giving medications (with an order from a doctor or nurse practitioner)
- Case management
- Health screening (vision, hearing, blood pressure, weight)
- Regular check‐ups, sports physicals
- Sick visits
- Immunizations (shots)
- Treatment of illness or injury (both minor and many emergencies)
- Care and follow-up for chronic conditions like asthma, ADHD, allergies, and diabetes
- Connections to health resources like getting health insurance or finding a specialist
- Prescription medication delivery to school
We use our doctor’s office or urgent care. Why would I take my child to the Rales Health Center?
Having a health center in the school building is convenient. Most of the time, the Rales Health Center staff can treat your child and get them back to class quickly. You are welcome to come to visits with your child, but you don’t have to. You can stay at work or home and talk with them by phone. If your child is too sick to come to school, we may be able to set up a virtual office visit if appropriate.
My child already has a doctor, why should I enroll them at the Rales Health Center?
You do not have to give up your child’s doctor to enroll! The Rales Health Center staff work with your doctor. Many families sign up just in case their child needs to get urgent care at school or gets sick during the school day.
Does the Rales Health Center bill my insurance company?
Your insurance is never billed for school nursing services; care provided by our school nurses is part of your child’s public school education. If your child sees the doctor or nurse practitioner, your insurance will be billed the same way it is at your child’s doctor’s office. The staff will always reach out to you to get your approval for a visit before billing your insurance. The Rales Health Center accepts all insurance types and sees students without insurance. They are committed to making sure that cost is not a barrier to care for your KIPPster.
When is the Rales Health Center open?
The health center is open M-F during regular school hours. You can schedule a visit, or your child can walk in anytime. Feel free to stop by or call us at 410-291-2570.
In a truly one of a kind partnership, the Rales Team supports KIPP Baltimore teachers, administrators and staff to implement the CDC’s Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model.
This model, and thus the work of the Rales team, attempts to address critical health and education outcomes through an integrated approach to health and education, supporting the work of the health center and the school to ensure that all KIPP Baltimore students have the knowledge and skills necessary to lead happy, healthy, productive lives.
Document Downloads
- Keeping Your KIPPster Healthy This Year
- These forms must be completed annually:
- RHC Back to School Checklist
- Student Health Background Form (Blue Form)
- School Medication Administration Form
- Diet Guidance and Modification Form
- Information Form: Asthma
- Asthma Action Plan
- Allergy Emergency Plan
- Seizure Emergency Plan