KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Telehealth is continuing to make it easier for patients and doctors to communicate. Last month, the Knox County Commission awarded a $70,000 contract to the McNabb Center and Harmony Family Center to expand their telehealth services for student mental health.
The use of telehealth services was jump-started during COVID as people were asked to stay at home. Now, five years later, telehealth is still allowing people to go to the doctor from the comfort of their own home. This service will now benefit Knox County students.
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“I love that telehealth is growing,” Harmony Family Center CEO Nicole Coning said. “With children and youth, it means moms, dads and caregivers not having to kind of run around town. We know everybody’s schedules are so busy and so full. This is just a beautiful way they can connect with us in their home setting where, also a plus for that is, where they are hopefully most comfortable.”
In May, the Knox County Commission awarded both Harmony Family Center and the McNabb Center a contract to expand their mental health telehealth services for students. Nicole Coning, the CEO of Harmony Family Health, says this generation is facing different issues than past generations.
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“Pre-adolescents, teenagers and even grade school folks, middle schoolers are facing a lot of just challenges that previous generations didn’t really face about identity, peer pressure and just all of those things,” Coning said. “Having an outlet through school to be able to address and work with some of these kids to be able to hear them and to meet their needs.”…