Wichita school board to build GraceMed clinic at West High

A GraceMed clinic at West High School should be open by next school year, after Wichita school board members approved a contract Monday to build it.

The board voted 6-0 to approve a contract with Walz Harman Huffman to build the 4,500-square-foot clinic, estimated at $978,200. GraceMed will finance the clinic expenditure.

The school district will own and maintain the clinic building, which will be the first at a Wichita high school and the sixth built in the district. GraceMed will provide the medical resources and personnel and will lease the clinic space from the district at no cost.

West High, near Lincoln and McLean Boulevard, is one of the city’s poorest high schools. Nearly 90 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, an indicator of poverty.

This story was originally published October 27, 2014 at 8:39 PM with the headline "Wichita school board to build GraceMed clinic at West High."