Why does the health department and not APS provide school health services?
As public health employees, school health staff bring public health expertise and partnerships with other units within public health and the Department of Human Services to provide a fuller range of services to students. For instance, nurses in the schools work closely and quickly with the Communicable Disease Bureau in the Public Health Division and prevent further spread of communicable diseases within the school and community. Thus, staff and students are better protected from disease.
