Health Office
Health Office News - Updated 01/15/2025
- The Health Office will be closed 1/16/2025 from 0800 to 1230. Other school staff will provide prescription medications, first aid, and emergency care. Parents will be contacted for illnesses and injuries.
The Health Office is usually open from 8:15 to 3:15 during normal school days. For after-school sports injuries please notify your coach and/or the athletic trainer.
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What is going around the school this week?Illness rates stay high in the school and in our communities. I am asking parents to NOT send students to school if they have any new or worsening complaints of ANY of the following symptoms:
Flu symptoms ·
- Fever* or feeling feverish or with chills: not all persons with flu will have fever
- Cough
- Sore throat
- Runny or stuffy nose
- Body aches or muscle pain
- Headaches
- Fatigue (tiredness)
- Some people may have vomiting or diarrhea, but these are more common in children than in adults.
RSV
- Runny nose
- Congestion
- Decrease in appetite
- Coughing
- Sneezing
- Fever
- Wheezing/difficulty breathing
- Increased irritability or decreased activity
Strep Throat
- Fever
- Sore throat
- Pain when swallowing
- Red and swollen tonsils
- Swollen lymph nodes in the neck
- Tiny red spots on the roof of the mouth (petechiae)
- White patches or pus on the tonsils
- Headache
- Nausea or vomiting
- Rash (scarlet fever)
1/15/2025
The only way to determine what illness you have is by testing. Please see your provider for accurate diagnosis.
Attendance: When kids are sent home from the Health Office, the absence is still added to your attendance record. Yes, illnesses are considered excused. However, once you hit 14 days of absences, everything after that is considered excessive. You should still stay home when you are sick, but now you will need to see a provider to verify that you are ill. So don’t send your kids into the Health Office knowing they are sick, thinking you won’t need a doctor’s note..You will. (Consider that when you are planning your family trips etc. everything counts towards the magic 14 number even if it is excused.)
The Health Office is looking for medical professionals (physicians, NPs, PAs, APPs, nurses, EMTs, paramedics) who would like to join the list of individuals that may be able to work in the Health Office on the rare occasion that Holli is out of the office.
- There is no time commitment to this position. Just like with substitute teaching, if Holli is going to be gone she will contact you to see if you are available to cover. If not, she will move on to the next person. Coverage needed is only an occasional 1-3 hours periods. A few possible full days per year. Your preferences are taken into consideration.
- Days/hours needing coverage are usually scheduled well in advance so that you have time to arrange your schedule. The only exception would be illness/injury/or emergency coverage and again this is not mandatory but on a volunteer basis.
- If interested in this position, please contact Heidi Beck in the District Office ext. 1300 to apply. After a background check is completed, then she will forward your contact information to me.
EXTRA CLOTHES & SUPPLIES NEEDED IN HEALTH OFFICE
Keep extra clothes in your student's locker &/or bag. I recommend at least pants, underwear, and socks for all ages. Clothes rip, get wet or dirty, and stain in awkward spots. Better to have extra on hand just in case.
COLD WEATHER IS HERE!: remember to send coats, hats, gloves, and boots with your kids as the weather turns! We do not have enough extras for everyone AND SHARING CLOTHES PASSES GERMS!
Accepting donations of new or gently used pants and underwear of all school age sizes to stock in the Health Office. Youth Small, Medium, Large for boys and girls are needed most, but we do use all sizes through XXL in adults. Please also consider donating gallon-sized buckets for use in the health office and in classrooms for when kids get sick. The school could also use another wheel-chair or 2 if anyone has one.