Our Center adheres to all health/communicable disease policies as outlined in the American Academy of Pediatrics Model Health Policies and Procedures Manual. A copy of this manual is kept by the Director of the Center and is available for review upon request.
Parents are required to pick up a sick child within 1 hour after our notice by telephone. If a parent is within reach, but cannot pick up the child within 1 hour, a parent must arrange an alternative pick up with someone specified in the child’s emergency contact form. The staff will not continue to call the persons listed on the emergency contact list after the parent has been reached. If the parents cannot be reached, the staff will start calling the people listed on the emergency contact form until the measures are taken to pick up the child.
Children will be excluded from the program if they have any symptoms of an infectious disease. They will not be allowed to return to the program until they stop being communicable. The recommendations for determining the infectious period for a particular disease are based on the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The parent should provide a doctor’s note that the child is no longer infectious, and then he may return to the program. Our center has the right to refuse permission for a child to return if our director or a person appointed by him believes that the child is too sick to participate in the program.
Children excluded from the program because of fever cannot return to the program until they are free from fever without temperature-reducing drugs for 24 hours. If we sent your child home due to a fever, we do not allow him/her to return to the program earlier than on the next day. Fever is defined as a temperature reading on a thermometer of at least 101 degrees Fahrenheit.