Parkland's North Oak Cliff Youth & Family Center moves to Adamson High School

DALLAS – The Parkland North Oak Cliff Youth & Family Center located at 501 S. Edgefield Ave. closed on June 20 and will reopen on Tuesday, July 9 at Adamson High School at 201 E. Ninth St., Dallas.

“Moving the center to a renovated portion of the old Adamson High School places us across the parking lot from the new state-of-the-art Adamson High School and provides us a permanent home where we can continue to serve the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) students attending Adamson High School and Greiner Middle School,” said Susan Spalding, MD, Medical Director, Parkland Community Medicine. “The new center will offer the same services, with Parkland providing medical care and DISD offering mental health services for students.”

The North Oak Cliff Youth & Family Center, located just 2.2 miles from the new Adamson site, had been housed in a portable building. All services and programs provided to patients at the North Oak Cliff clinic will continue at the new Adamson location, including: acute care, management of chronic illness (such as asthma, obesity and diabetes ) physicals, immunizations, specialty care referrals, STI and HIV testing, health education, class D pharmacy, laboratory testing, family planning and mental health treatment.

In 1994, Parkland partnered with DISD to create health care facilities on various school campuses for students and children of students. The school-based clinics are a way for children, who may not have a primary care doctor, to receive comprehensive primary care and establish a medical home. These clinics are set up to give students and their families a comfortable and familiar atmosphere to come to when they are sick, need a sports physical or immunizations for school. Working closely with the school nurse, children are able to receive medical attention and antibiotics from the clinics to keep them well and in school.

Hours of operation at the Adamson site will be the same as they were at North Oak Cliff: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. The clinic accepts traditional Medicaid, Parkland HEALTHfirst, Parkland Kids First and students with no health insurance. For more information, patients and families can call 214.266.1257. There are 12 Parkland Youth & Family Centers located throughout Dallas County. To find the center nearest you, please visit our website at www.parklandhospital.com.