WHEELING — The new health clinic at Madison Elementary School will start seeing young patients as soon as school leaders have received consent forms signed by parents.

Packets containing the consent forms will be going home with students in the next few days, said Leah Stout, Ohio County Schools special education director.

She noted the ribbon was cut on the facility back in September and the facility is ready for patients.

“We just need to get the consents back, and we’ll be all ready to go,” she said.

The holdup had been the consent forms and policy between Ohio County Schools and WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital, the medical provider for the clinic, according to Stout.

Last week, the Ohio County Board of Education agreed to tweak the policy pertaining to consent forms, she continued.

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