JLC

File: JLC

STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES AND REQUIREMENTS

Activities may include identification of student health needs, health screening tests (including vision and hearing screening tests), communicable disease prevention and control, promotion of the correction of remediable health defects, emergency care of the ill and injured, health counseling, health and safety education, and the maintenance of a healthful school environment.

The district recognizes that parents have the primary responsibility for the health of their students. The school will cooperate with appropriate professional organizations associated with maintaining individual and community health and safety.

The district shall provide the services of a medical consultant who shall render medical and administrative consultative services for personnel responsible for school health and athletics.

Procedures for Emergency at School

School personnel shall give only emergency care to students who become ill or injured on school property, buses, or while under school supervision.

Each year parents shall supply information indicating where the student is to be taken in case of an emergency; the name, address, and phone number of two (2) people to contact in case the parent or guardian is not available; and any allergies or conditions the student might have.

Written permission of a parent or guardian is required for the administration of medication to students. Any medication to be administered in school, not covered by a school physician's standing orders, also requires an order from the prescribing physician.

The district shall maintain a Medical Emergency Response Plan, as required by law, and an Emergency Procedures Handbook, which shall be utilized by the district personnel for handling emergencies. Emergency procedures shall include the following:

Provisions for care beyond first aid, which would enable care by the family or its physician or the local Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies. In instances when the EMS is required, every effort shall be made to provide them with the student's emergency card which lists any allergies or conditions the student might have;

Information relative to not permitting the administration of any form of medicine or drugs to students without written approval of parents. Requests made by parents for such administration of medication shall be reviewed and approved by the principal or designee;

Provisions for reporting all accidents, cases of injury, or illness to the principal. Provisions shall be made (in all cases of injury or illness involving possible legal or public relations implications) for reporting such to the appropriate executive director of education immediately.

Student Illness or Injury

In case of illness or injury, the parent or guardian will be contacted and asked to call for the student or provide the transportation.

Transportation of an ill or injured student is not normally provided by the school. If the parent cannot provide transportation and the student is ill or injured, an ambulance may be called. Expense incurred as a result of an emergency ambulance use will not be borne by the district.

Transportation of a student by school personnel will be done only in an emergency and by the individual so designated by the school administrator.

SOURCE: MASC (July 2012)

LEGAL REFS: M.G.L. c. 71, §53; 54; 54A; 54B; 55; 55A; 55B; 56; 57; 69:8A.

CROSS REF.: EBB, First Aid; EBC, Emergency Plans; JLCD, Administration of Medications to Students

West Springfield Public Schools (S.C approved 9/11/12)