Oakland (Calif.) district works to provide students with health care

From The Bay Citizen: The Oakland (Calif.) Unified School District wants to be the first major urban school district in the nation to guarantee universal access to primary health care to all its students. A patchwork of funds — an $18 million initiative funded primarily by the City of Oakland, Alameda County and Kaiser Permanente — is going a long way toward helping the school district reach that goal by the end of the year. Nine new school-based health centers providing primary care to students were opened or will open between 2010-2012, for a total of 26 throughout the district.