Health Center
Mission.
The mission of the Health Center is to provide the best possible medical care for students
while at the Indiana Deaf School. Health Center staff strive to do this in a
manner which consistently creates a positive, pleasant, and productive health
care environment for both students and staff.
It is necessary for all students at ISD to have their own home family doctor.
The Health Center and its staff should not be a substitute for this care.
Basic health care will be provided to all students who become ill or injured
while at ISD. Parents will be contacted when further
care needs to be provided by their family doctor. Please do not use the
Health Center as a substitute for your home family doctor!
Please call ISD if your child will be absent. A doctor's excuse to return
to school needs to be provided for any absence due to illness longer than
five days, with the exception of chicken pox. A medical release is also needed for
any hospital stay or surgery.
Parents will be notified immediately if their child is injured while at
school or becomes seriously ill. Parents will be strongly encouraged to
pick up their child and transport them for further medical attention.
Students are more comfortable with a parent during emergency medical care.
In addition, this policy helps avoid possible insurance problems. If this
is truly impossible, the Health Center will, based on staff
availability, etc., make a decision about the medical attention for your
student. The hospital preference for emergencies is Methodist Hospital
(special exceptions may consider insurance or specialty physicians).
When a child returns to school following a fracture or severe injury, please
provide a physician's note of treatment plans and activity restrictions, if they
apply, and specify the applicable dates of restriction.
Services.
The Health Center needs to be kept up-to-date about any allergies that your
child may have to drugs, insects (bees), latex, or foods and the reactions that
resulted. Because our Medical Director may see your student in your absence, we
need to be aware of any such allergies. Please contact the Health Center if
you have any new information about allergies or just want to make sure we are
aware of a previous allergy problem.
Please keep the Health Center informed about any medical updates on your child such as
allergies, immunizations, medications, illnesses, etc. The phone numbers for
the Health Center are: 1-800-715-5602, 317-924-8409 and 317-920-6279 (director's
office). All are TTY accessible. The Health Center fax number is
317-920-6270. Fax services are available for physicians to fax orders and other
medical information.
The Health Center will provide:
- administration of medications as ordered by the physician.
- administration of medical treatments as ordered by the physician.
- illness and injury assessment and evaluation by staff and tri-weekly doctor visits.
- observation of potential abuse/neglect. All staff is to report observations to the
designated staff social worker. (Schools are required, by statute, to report
suspected incidents. IC 31-6-11-3)
- vision, scoliosis screening as required by Indiana State law.
- Ushers Syndrome triennially with parent's permission
- immunization surveillance and monitering
IMPORTANT LINKS:
ISD Physical Form
Head Lice Information
Meningitis Information
MRSA Information
IHSAA Physical Form
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