Keeping kids healthy and in school is the focus of a special health center at a Philadelphia charter school.

Sixth-grader Megan Jarvis is getting ready to play volleyball with a sports physical that's happening at school.

"It's really helpful, so I don't have to go to the doctor's office," said Jarvis.

Memphis Street Academy, a charter middle school in Philadelphia's Port Richmond neighborhood, has a full-spectrum health center where students with prior permission from a parent can get everything from care when they're sick, and routine physicals to mental health counseling, along with dental and vision checks.

"Mostly, we see a lot of sick children in here and a lot of follow-up screenings on our children," said Julie Stewart, pediatric nurse practitioner.

Administrators said this sc

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