INDIAN HEAD, Md. – The Town of Indian Head recently gained a much-needed expansion of medical services with the opening of Charles County’s first school-based health center. The center, located on the Indian Head Elementary School campus, held it’s grand opening on Thursday, April 16, at 11:30 a.m.
The Dr. Chinnadurai Devadason School Based Health Center is open, with services available for Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) students. The center is located on the Indian Head Elementary School campus, but all CCPS students are eligible to receive services.
The clinic is a joint partnership between Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) and the Charles County Department of Health to expand school health and wellness resources. A school-based health center (SBHC) is a health clinic located right on a school campus. It provides primary, preventive, and urgent care services to help students stay healthy and ready to learn.
The clinic, located at 4202 Indian Head Highway, is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and accepts walk-ins or scheduled appointments. To make an appointment, call 301-944-1087. The clinic accepts most insurance plans, including Medicaid, and there is a sliding-scale payment option available for eligible clients.
Clinical services currently available include:
- Sick visits.
- Injury visits.
- Wellness visits.
- Physicals (including sports physicals required for CCPS students).
- School health inventories.
All CCPS students can enroll to receive health services through the clinic. Parents must complete online forms posted on the clinic website at https://charlescountyhealth.org/school-based-health-clinic/. Parents can also complete the forms on site at the clinic or request a packet from their child’s school nurse.
The clinic will be closed on federal holidays, as well as on May 8 and May 11.
For more information about the clinic, please visit the website at https://charlescountyhealth.org/school-based-health-clinic/ or call 301-944-1087.
The clinic is named after Dr. Devadason, who served as the Charles County Health Officer from 1983 to 1988, and again from 1995 to 2012.
About CCPS
Charles County Public Schools provides 27,904 students in grades prekindergarten through 12 with an academically challenging education. Located in Southern Maryland, Charles County Public Schools has 39 schools that offer a technologically advanced, progressive and high quality education that builds character, equips for leadership and prepares students for life, careers and higher education.
The Charles County public school system does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability in its programs, activities or employment practices.
For inquiries, please contact Dr. Mike Blanchard, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 Coordinator (students) or Nikial M. Majors, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 Coordinator (employees/ adults), at Charles County Public Schools, Jesse L. Starkey Administration Building, P.O. Box 2770, La Plata, MD 20646; 301-932-6610/301-870-3814.
For special accommodations call 301-934-7230 or TDD 1-800-735-2258 two weeks prior to the event. CCPS provides nondiscriminatory equal access to school facilities in accordance with its Use of Facilities rules to designated youth groups (including, but not limited to, the Boy Scouts).