Health Services

The Health Services Team at South Routt School District strives to maintain the physical, mental, and social health of students so they can focus on their academic opportunities. Our priority is to remove health-related barriers to learning and meet students’ health care needs while ensuring that students are allowed every opportunity to thrive and excel in and out of the classroom.

ILLNESS SYMPTOMS: WHEN TO KEEP YOUR CHILD AT HOME

Parents should report any illness or communicable disease diagnosis to the school as soon as possible. Diagnoses may include, but are not limited to: pink eye/conjunctivitis, lice, influenza, COVID-19, chicken pox, and/or strep throat. Please follow the HOW SICK IT TOO SICK? from Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) guidance for when students should stay home from school.

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SCHOOL NURSE AND CLINIC STAFF:

• Screen students’ vision and hearing
• Administer medications
• Provide medical care that allows students with health care needs to attend school
• Assess students' health to identify and address health-related obstacles to learning
• Assist families to locate health resources in their community
• Maintain state mandated immunization records and other health assessment data
• Prevent contagious illness and injuries through surveillance and implementation of appropriate precautionary measures
• Educate individuals and groups about health issues in order to increase their health literacy
• Develop and implement Individualized Health Plans and 504 Plans to reduce impact of chronic and episodic health conditions upon academic achievement
• Train additional personnel to administer medications safely so that students with medical needs can participate in extra-curricular school activities