HEALTH POLICY
All children are required to receive a physical exam prior to admission in program. All children must have all necessary immunizations and physician’s note indicating a schedule of immunizations, prior to admission.
Every child attending Laurels & Garland will be required to have an updated Child Health Record filled out and completed by the child’s Health Care provider on an annual basis. We recommend the beginning of every academic year upon return to the school each year.
Sick Children
We are required by the Health Department to have children stay at home if they are sick. If you are not sure your child is well enough to attend child care, call and talk with me. If your child gets sick while in school, you or someone you know will need to pick up your child. We are responsible for the health of many children so we must follow Health Department regulations when it comes to sickness.
According to the Department of Health requirements, and in the best interests of your child, he/she must be kept at home if he/she shows any of the following symptoms:
- Rashes or inflamed skin areas
- Fever or headache
- Abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Earache
- Sore throat
- Inflammation of the eyes
- Enlarged glands
- Persistent Cough
If a note from a physician is submitted to the center stating that any of these ailments aren’t transmittable to other children and or adults, then a child may return to the center
If a child develops any of these symptoms in school, the Parent or guardian will be notified and requested to pick up the child as soon as possible.
If your child is on antibiotics he/she continues to be contagious for 24 hours after the first dose of medication and cannot return to childcare until this time period has passed. We are not able to give a child medication unless we have a signed permission from the parent. An illness report will be sent to you when we have cause to believe the child may need a medical attention.
Medical Emergencies
We make every effort to keep your children safe through supervision and childproofing. Minor injuries will receive first aid, and if an emergency injury or illness occurs, you will be contacted immediately. If we are unable contact you, we will call someone you have given me permission to call.
Management Of communicable Diseases
If a child exhibits any of the following symptoms he/she should not attend school. If such symptoms occur at school, the child will be removed from the classroom and you will be called to take him/her home.
- Severe pain or discomfort
- Acute Diarrhea
- Episodes of acute vomiting
- Elevated oral temperature of 101.5 degrees
- Sore throat or severe coughing
- Yellow eyes or jaundice skin
- Red eyes and discharge
- Infected untreated skin patches
- Difficult or rapid breathing
- Skin lesions that are weeping or bleeding
- Skin rashes lasting longer than 24 hours
- Swollen joints
- Visible enlarged lymph nodes
- Stiff neck
- Blood in urine
Once a child is symptom free or has physician’s note stating that he/ she no longer poses a serious health risk to himself/herself or to other children, he/she may return to the center.
Communicable Diseases
If a child contracts any of the following diseases, please report it to us immediately. The child may not return to school without physicians note stating that the child presents no risk to himself/herself others.
| Respiratory Illnesses | Gastrointestinal Illnesses | Contact Illnesses |
| Chicken Pox | Guardian Labia | Impetigo |
| Measles German Measles | Hepatitis’s A | Louse |
| Strep Throat | Salmonella | Scabies |
| Homophiles influenza | Shigella | |
| Whooping Cough | ||
| Meningococcal | ||
| Tuberculosis | ||
| Mumps |