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feature A I S D N E W S HOPE CLINIC OPENS SECOND ALDINE LOCATION

A second HOPE Clinic has opened in the Aldine area to provide health services to members of the community. Aldine’s second HOPE Clinic opened recently and is located at 2112 Aldine Meadows Rd. and is located in the for mer Child Nutrition Services offices. HOPE Clinic is a full-time Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), and serves more than 20,000 unique pa tients with more than 100,000 patient visits per year. According to Tabbie Saenz, HOPE Clin ic’s Business Development and Commu nity Engagement Director, HOPE Clinic provides health care services to all people regardless of their ability to pay. In addition, the Clinic serves uninsured, under-insured and those with limited English proficiency and low-income patients. HOPE Clinic provides services to 30 different languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Korean, Bur mese, Arabic and Spanish. According to Saenz, HOPE Clinic’s mission is to provide quality healthcare without any prejudice Aldine ISD elementary schools are par ticipating in the literacy program hosted by the NCAAFinal Four ® and the Houston Local Organizing Committee (HLOC). Read to the Final Four ® is an initiative that inspires elementary school students in host cities to improve their reading levels and increase their achievement. The program is also a reading contest to see which school has the highest reading average. The competition is set up like a March Madness tournament bracket, except it will be more like a March reading madness version. The competition allows students to track all reading, whether ebooks, print books, or teacher/family read-alouds. They will record their reading times in the Bean

to all people in the Greater Houston and Aldine area. HOPE Clinic’s board-certified doctors and other

medical professionals and staff provide all types of medical care, wellness services and education at the new affordable walk-in clinic in Aldine. Other services include: • Wellness exams for women, men and children • Immunizations • Family planning • Sports physicals • Counseling and other behavioral health services • Referrals to specialists and hospitals as needed. The Aldine Meadows Clinic is open Mon day-Tuesday and Thursday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Wednesday’s, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. stack reading challenges tracker app found in the Clever platform. Families can contact their child’s school library staff for more information. Houston once again is hosting college basketball’s biggest event — the 2023 NCAAMen’s Final Four ® . The Read to the Final Four ® winning school will be named the citywide reading champion at the Final Four ® celebration in downtown Houston in March 2023. The NCAA and the Houston Local Orga nizing Committee hosted a pep rally in September at the Houston Public Library to kick off the reading competition. The tournament-style reading competi tion has third-grade students from each participating school working in teams

HOPE Clinic employees Yashira Cuellar, Concepcion Camarillo and Tabbie Saenz pose at the BakerRipley location.

HOPE Clinic accepts Medicaid, Medi care, ACA marketplace health insurance and CHIP coverage. Patients who don’t have health insurance may qualify for discounted fees based on their family’s income and size. HOPE Clinic personnel will provide assistance to those who need to apply for government-provided health insurance. For more information, contact HOPE Clinic at Aldine Meadows at 713.773.0803. and earning points based on the average minutes read. KHOU will air the Final Four games in 2023. The station has partnered with the NCAA and the HLOC on the Read to Final Four ® event. Top schools will advance throughout the rounds, winning prizes. KHOU is going to carry those bracket announcements. This reading initiative started in Houston in 2016; it is the city’s fourth time hosting the Final Four ® . Marco Zannier Virginillo, AISD program director of library services, is excited that all elementary grade levels will partic ipate in the reading initiative this year. He will award prizes to the elementary school with the most minutes overall, including all grade levels.

AISD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TAKING PART IN CITYWIDE READ TO FINAL FOUR ® COMPETITION

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