Health Room

Heatherwood’s health room is staffed by a health aide or by a parent volunteer who is trained in first aid.

When a child is not feeling well at school, the health room staff will determine the extent of injury or illness and decide if the parent should be called. Please always provide the office with your current contact phone numbers. Except in cases involving emergency medical procedures, the primary responsibility for transporting injured or ill students will be with the student’s parents or those individuals listed on the Student Information and Emergency Card. When a parent is called to pick up a child due to illness, please make every attempt to do this within 30 minutes, as there is limited space in the health room to care for ill children.

Dispensing of Medication

Medications of any kind, including over-the-counter medications, will be administered only with the written order of a physician. It is the parent’s responsibility to obtain from the school’s health room the Parent’s Request for Giving Medicine at School, Release Agreement and Physician’s Signed Order form and to provide the medication in a container appropriately labeled by a pharmacy.

Whenever possible, parents should be encouraged to have the child’s medication given at times other than school hours so that the school does not have to assume the responsibility of administering medication unless absolutely necessary. Due to the number of students requiring medication, the health room staff cannot be responsible for reminding your student to take his/her medication.

Vision and Hearing Checks

Screening is done annually for grades K, 1, 2, 3 & 5 in September. It is assumed that 4th graders were screened during their required physical. New students and special referrals are screened throughout the year.

Physicals

Physicals and current immunization records are required for students new to the school district and those entering kindergarten and fourth grade. This information is kept in the Student Health Record. The required forms are available at area doctors’ offices. Kindergarten students must also complete a current health survey.