Health Services
The school health office provides first aid and healthcare to over 1,500 students, faculty, and staff. If your child is injured or becomes ill, they will be sent to the nurses' office. There are a few guidelines that parents should be aware.
Health update forms must be completed and signed by parents/guardians before a student is treated through the health office. All students have been given a form to bring home. However, if you haven’t filled one out, please call the school, and we will send one home to you.
Students are sent home from school for three reasons: a) a fever of 100 or greater; b) vomiting, with or without fever; c) any condition we deem potentially contagious to other students (i.e., head lice or pinkeye). Other special circumstances may arise; in such cases, we will utilize nursing skills and judgment, as well as communicate with parents, to determine if your child needs to be sent home.
State health regulations require that students cannot attend school unless they are properly immunized and can provide satisfactory proof of immunization, unless they are exempt. We will notify parents by mail if your child needs any immunizations. The health office will need a copy of proof that the vaccine was given to update our records at school. Ten-year tetanus booster shots will be due around 8th grade.
Please keep us updated with any changes to your address, phone number, and emergency information, including your child’s current doctor. If there are any updates to emergency contact numbers, please send a note with your child to school. Additionally, inform us of any changes in your child’s health, such as serious injuries, surgeries, allergies, new diagnoses, or medications that are started, taken routinely, or discontinued.
We will assist in giving your child’s medication at school; however, it must be in the original container with the doctor’s orders attached. Medications will not be issued from any other container. This permits you to deliver the medication to the Health Office and leave it until it is completed. The empty container will be returned to your child, eliminating breakage and forgotten dosages, which decrease the effectiveness of treatment and prevent sharing medications.
The school only has Tylenol, antacids, and first aid supplies. Please send cough drops and ChapStick for your child to keep on hand and use as needed. If your child may require other over-the-counter medications, such as for cold symptoms, you can send them with a note from the parent as to the reason for the medication and the time the medication is due. We will put the medicine in the cabinet with your child’s name on it and give it only to your child.