Health Services

If a serious injury or illness occurs at school, the nurse will make every effort to contact parents. Please keep your address and contact information up to date by notifying your section office of any changes.

When a medical emergency situation exists, we will transport the student to Severance Hospital Emergency Room or International Clinic. The school nurse or EMT will accompany the student and meet parents at the hospital. If parents prefer another hospital, they can transfer.

Students who need to take medications during school hours should have a written prescription and/or parental permission. For safe administration of medications brought in from home, the Medication Authorization Form must be filled out by parents and sent along with the medication.

Students are not allowed to keep medicine or take the medicine by themselves. Medication will be kept in the Health Office during school hours.

Illness
If your child is ill and unable to attend school, please call your division office or email your child’s homeroom teacher and the school nurse on the first day of the illness. It is helpful if the nature of illness is described so the nurse can watch for general trends.

In order to prevent other students from being unnecessarily exposed to illness, parents are asked to keep the student home or pick up their child from school as soon as possible if he or she:

• Has a fever of 99.5°F (37.5°C) or higher
• Has been vomiting or had diarrhea
• Has symptoms that prevent him or her from participating in school, such as excessive tiredness or lack of appetite, productive coughing, headache, body aches, earache, and severe sore throat
• Has a condition that is suspected to be contagious (e.g., unknown rash or red eye(s) with sticky discharge).

Communicable Diseases
A student with communicable disease MUST be kept at home.  A doctor’s clearance note is required in order for the student to return to school.

Based on the Fever Policy, students with a fever are not allowed to take the school bus owing to potential spread and contamination. Please note that students with a fever should not return to school until they are fever free for 24 hours without the aid of fever-reducing medication. 

For further information or clarification, please contact the Health Office.