Health Office

St. Ann Catholic School Health Policies 2022-2023*

*subject to change due to Covid-19

1. If your child is sick, absent or tardy, please call 913-660-1106 or email attendance@stannpv.org DAILY until your child is well.  Email or voice mail is available 24 hours a day, so feel free to call or send email during off hours as well.  When emailing, include the teacher on same email so we both know where your child is.  When emailing or leaving a voice message including the signs and symptoms of the illness.  If your child needs to leave school for a medical or dental appointment, you must check your child out and in at the school office.

2. Students are sent home by the school nurse for the following reasons: (Parents will be notified before your child leaves the school.  No children are allowed to walk home.)

• Fever 100 or above
• Signs and symptoms of Covid-19 virus
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Suspected pink eye
• Severe injury at school
• Your child may return to school 24 hours after the last time experiencing fever above 100, diarrhea or vomiting without medication.
   

3. Medications will only be given when these procedures are followed:

• Medications must be sent in original bottle with a pharmacy label with name, dosage and directions. 
• Any samples from your doctor must be accompanied with a written prescription.
• A parent’s signed written permission to give ‘over the counter’ medications are on file annually.
• Students may carry their inhalers with them when I have written permission from their doctor and their parent and they show me proper technique of how to use inhaler to school nurse.
   

4. Please notify me (even if on a weekend or vacation) if your child has been diagnosed with:

• Covid-19, Strep throat, Pink eye, Impetigo, 5^th Disease, Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
• Respiratory Influenza A or B
• Pneumonia
• Chicken pox, Measles, Whooping cough, Mononucleosis
• Head lice
   

5. Children who are in K - 8^th grades will have their vision checked and K, 1, 2, 5 & 7 will have their hearing checked at school. 

• Abnormal results and referrals will be mailed home to every family.