Welcome to the Edison Intermediate School Health Office
Please feel free to contact us with any health related concerns or questions that arise. Knowledge of any changes in your child's health including new allergies, new medications, hospitalizations, surgeries, or any other pertinent medical information will help us to ensure your child has a safe and healthy school year!
Martha Fico RN, MSN, CSN Patty Kelly, RN, BSN, CSN
mfico@westfieldnjk12.org pkelly@westfieldnjk12.org
Phone: (908) 789-4470 option 2
Fax: (908) 519-2328
Medication Drop off 25/26
If your child requires medication during the school day, you must drop this medication off to the nurses in the Health Office. Nurses will be collecting medications for the 2025-2026 school year at the following times:
Tuesday, September 2rd - 2:00-3:00 PM
Thursday, September 4th - 9:00-10:00 AM
Medication Pick up 24/25
Medication Pick- Up will be:
Monday, June 23rd from 9:00- 10:00 am
Tuesday, June 24th from 11:00 am- 12:00 pm
Physical Education Exemptions
If your child has been exempt from gym through the end of the current school year, we will need a return to play note from your doctor in September. If we do not receive a doctor’s note, your child will NOT be allowed to participate in gym class this coming September.
Per the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) has updated its guidance for COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses. This guidance offers a unified approach to preventing the spread of common viruses like COVID-19, influenza, and RSV. Since these viruses share transmission methods, symptoms, and prevention strategies, the NJDOH and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommend that schools, early care and education programs, and youth camps implement a core set of infectious disease prevention strategies, outlined HERE. In summary:
Students or staff who are sick should stay home until symptoms are improving and they are fever-free for 24 hours.
Students or staff with a temperature equal to or greater than 100.4, vomiting, or diarrhea should stay home according to our standard school policy. Individual with a fever need to stay home for 24 hours after the last temperature of 100.4 or above, without fever-reducing medications.
Improving symptoms means the individual is no longer feeling ill and can participate comfortably in educational and other activities as they did before they were sick.
If students or staff test positive for a respiratory illness but are symptom-free, they should mask and practice good hand hygiene for five days, unless the disease has more specific exclusion criteria.
After returning, students or staff should take additional precautions for five days, including masking, practicing good hand hygiene, and coughing into the bend in their elbow.
If symptoms worsen or the fever returns, they should stay out until symptoms improve and they are fever-free for 24 hours without fever-reducing medication.
Common symptoms of COVID include (1) one of the following symptoms: new cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, or new disorder of smell or taste; or (2) two of the following symptoms: fever (Temperature equal to or greater than 100.4 F), chills, shivers, muscle aches, headache, sore throat, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, congestion or runny nose. If your student has the above symptoms, please contact your healthcare provider.