Kathy Bell
23:51 - 24:27
"Ideally, if we had all the money in the world, every school would have a nurse. But we would still keep the regional model just so that if we a couple few nurses are out and a sub isn't able to pick up those coverages for those schools, we can move somebody from a low acuity school to cover a high acuity school for a day."
“Ideally, if we had all the money in the world, every school would have a nurse. But we would still keep the regional model just so that if we a couple few nurses are out and a sub isn't able to pick up those coverages for those schools, we can move somebody from a low acuity school to cover a high acuity school for a day.”
- Speaker
- Kathy Bell
- Timestamp
- 23:51 – 24:27
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 2, 2026
From the transcript
We also looked in the lower 48. I'm from Massachusetts, I have a daughter that works in Oregon. And so I had very good information from those two areas and then I went online to look at what other places are doing and we still have a very good model. Ideally, if we had all the money in the world, every school would have a nurse. But we would still keep the regional model just so that if we a couple few nurses are out and a sub isn't able to pick up those coverages for those schools, we can move somebody from a low acuity school to cover a high acuity school for a day.
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