By Crysta Jones and Andy Miller
Habersham County has a high uninsured rate, with 12% of its children lacking health coverage. The mountainous northeast Georgia county also has a low number of primary care physicians and mental health providers.
For those reasons and others, a school-based telemedicine program would seem like a natural fit for Habersham. It’s a good way to treat the children of working parents who are unable to get their kids to a medical provider. It can head off problems before they become worse, and at an affordable cost.
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