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Good health is an essential component of optimal learning conditions. It is therefore the mission of Health Services to support the health status of our students and to identify and assist in the removal or modification of health-related barriers to learning. In this way Health Services contributes directly to AUSD’s vision of preparing our students to be responsible citizens by providing a safe and secure learning environment.
WHEN YOUR CHILD IS ILL...
WHEN YOUR CHILD IS ILL...
Please do not send your child to school if he/she has any of the following symptoms:
1. Fever (over 100 degrees). Please keep your child home for 24 hours after a fever without the aid of medications.)
2. Eyes that are red, swollen, crusting or draining
3. Untreated, draining ears or earache
4. Diarrhea
5. Nausea or vomiting (if your child has vomited the night before or in the morning, please DO NOT send pupil to school)
6. Severe sore throat
7. Skin rashes of unknown origin or contagious rashes require clearance from a health care provider that allow the child to return to school.
If your child is at school with any of the above, you will be called to pick up your child. Under certain circumstances, you may be asked to consult a physician and to provide a written note from a doctor indicating that your child may return to school.
EMERGENCY CARD
EMERGENCY CARD
Your child’s school must have correct contact information on your child in an emergency. This includes any alternative emergency contact persons in case the school cannot reach the parents. Parents must fill out the cards completely, including all pertinent health information and physician and dentist phone numbers to call in an emergency. If there is a change of address or phone number for any person listed on the card during school year, please notify the school immediately (Ed Code 49408)
SCHOOL HEALTH OFFICES
SCHOOL HEALTH OFFICES
Each AUSD school has a health office and Health Office Assistant who has been trained in basic CPR and First Aid. Some of the care provided by the Health Office Assistant, under the direction of the District Nurse, includes basic first aid, medication administration, immunization enforcement, and communicable disease control.
Parents are encouraged to communicate with the School Health Office Assistant and District Nurse on any health-related issues so we can better meet your child’s health needs in school to promote the best learning environment for your student.
To contact your student’s Health Office Assistant, please go to each school’s website. To contact either District Nurse, please call (510) 337-7072 email kallen@alamedaunified.org or shdorrance@alamedaunified.org or visit our district office located at 2060 Challenger Drive, Alameda, California.
It is important to protect students from infectious diseases that are transmitted within the school setting. Your child may be excluded from school in accordance with California Education Code section 48210-48214 and section 49451. “Whenever there is a reason to believe that the child is suffering a recognized contagious or infectious disease, he/she shall be sent home and shall not be permitted to return until the school authorities are satisfied that any contagious disease does not exist.”
HEALTH SERVICES CONTACTS
HEALTH SERVICES CONTACTS
Karen Allen
District Nurse (RN)
(510) 337-7118
kallen@alamedaunified.org
Sandra Hoffman Dorrance
District Nurse (RN)
(510) 337-7118
shdorrance@alamedaunified.org
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