Introducing: Hazel Health
Hazel Health is a program providing telehealth services to the Bethune Community.
FAQs:
How do Hazel Health Visits work?
When your student is not feeling, they can have a visit via iPad with the Hazel health team either at school or at home. Think of it has a free, virtual urgent care. Hazel Health provides both Physical and Mental Health Services.
What are the benefits?
Hazel Health can quickly and easily assess your student for minor illnesses and treat them. It saves you and your student time and makes your life easier. For instance, a mental health visit can take months to schedule, where as the follow up for Hazel Health is around 10 days.
What does it cost?
Nothing. The hazel health team collects your insurance information to bill when possible, but all copays are waived. This also helps Hazel Health determine what pharmacies and follow up are in your network if needed.
What do I need to do?
For your student to be able to complete visits. A consent form needs to be signed through their website. You can find it here:
Cervical Cancer Awareness
January is cervical cancer awareness month!
Almost ALL (99%) of cervical cancer is linked to infection with Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a common sexually transmitted disease.
Cervical cancer is one of the most treatable cancers. A comprehensive approach to prevent, screen, and treat cervical cancer, we can end cervical cancer as a public health problem within a few generations.
On this Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, the messages are clear.
· Get informed. Find out the facts about cervical cancer and the human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes it. Help educate other women in your life too.
· Get screened. Cervical cancer screening typically starts at age 30 and is repeated periodically.
· Get vaccinated. The HPV vaccine is given in 2 doses that should begin when a girl is between 9 and 14 years old.
(WHO, 2024)
When should my child get HPV vaccine?
Dose #1
11–12 years (can start at age 9)
Dose #2
6–12 months after the first dose
Children ages 11–12 years should get two doses of HPV vaccine, given 6 to 12 months apart. HPV vaccines can be given starting at age 9.
Children who start the HPV vaccine series on or after their 15th birthday need three doses, given over 6 months.
If your teen isn’t vaccinated yet, talk to their doctor about doing so as soon as possible.
Teens and young adults can be vaccinated too
Everyone through age 26 years should get HPV vaccine if they were not fully vaccinated already.
HPV vaccination is not recommended for everyone older than age 26 years.
Some adults ages 27 through 45 years who were not already vaccinated might choose to get HPV vaccine after speaking with their doctor about their risk for new HPV infections and possible benefits of vaccination for them.
HPV vaccination of adults provides less benefit, because more people in this age range have been exposed to HPV already.
HPV vaccination is preventing cancer-causing infections and precancers
HPV infections and cervical precancers (abnormal cells on the cervix that can lead to cancer) have dropped since 2006, when HPV vaccines were first used in the United States.
Among teen girls, infections with HPV types that cause most HPV cancers and genital warts have dropped 88 percent.
Among young adult women, infections with HPV types that cause most HPV cancers and genital warts have dropped 81 percent.
Among vaccinated women, the percentage of cervical precancers caused by the HPV types most often linked to cervical cancer has dropped by 40 percent.
HPV vaccination is very safe.
Over 15 years of data have shown that HPV vaccines are very safe and effective. Like all vaccines, scientists continue to monitor HPV vaccines.
Help paying for HPV vaccine
The Vaccines for Children (VFC) program helps families of eligible children who might not have access to vaccines. The program provides vaccines at no cost to children ages 18 years and younger who are uninsured, Medicaid-eligible, or American Indian/Alaska Native. To learn more, see VFC program.
(CDC, 2023)
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