Pleasant Grove School Nurse Helps Bring Free Virtual Health Care to Families

Most school nurses spend their days handling scraped knees, headaches, and the occasional fever check. This year, Pleasant Grove's school nurse decided that wasn't enough.

Thanks to a push by school nurse Rhiannon Webb, Pleasant Grove Public School is partnering with the Oklahoma State University Health Sciences Virtual Care Program for the 2026-2027 school year, bringing free, on-campus healthcare directly to students in Shawnee.

The program allows students to see a doctor virtually, right from the school nurse's office, cutting down on missed class time and giving families faster — and free — access to care. Working alongside OSU physicians, Pleasant Grove's nurse will now be able to help treat common conditions like colds, flu, fevers, and earaches, along with seasonal allergies, rashes, and insect bites. The program also includes on-site rapid testing for flu and strep with a doctor's order, and prescriptions can be sent straight to a family's local pharmacy before the school day even ends.

For Pleasant Grove families, the benefits go well beyond convenience. The cost-free program is designed to save parents money on doctor visit fees, cut down on time away from work, and help students recover faster so they can get back to learning.

None of it would exist without one person deciding it was worth pursuing. Nurse Rhiannon sought out the OSU partnership, then brought it to the Pleasant Grove board of education, who backed the idea and made it official for the coming school year.

It's easy to overlook the work that happens behind the scenes to bring a program like this to life. But for the students who'll benefit from faster, free healthcare access at Pleasant Grove, the credit belongs to a nurse who decided her students deserved more than a nurse's office could offer on its own — and went out and got it for them.