ILLNESS OF A CHILD (Health Policy. Before entering the program the parent/guardian agrees to have the Agency’s Medical Form completed by a licensed physician for each child before they are placed in the home. The parent/guardian agrees to keep the child home if he/she has an infection or serious illness such as a fever over 101F, mumps, measles, or any other infectious disease, illnesses, which could infect or jeopardize others in the home day care. The parent/guardian agrees and understands that should a child develop or be found to have an infectious disease, vomiting, diarrhea and/or fever while in the Home Child Care. The Provider will call the parent to come and pick up the child immediately from the Home Child Care, and seek medical care. Children that are sick should not attend the home day care for their own protection, the protection of other children the provider and her family. Any child who is too sick to participate in any indoor or outdoor activities must not attend. When a child is ill and cannot attend, the provider should be informed by phone before 10:00am. Any communicable diseases such as strep throat, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough must be reported to the Agency as soon as possible so that we can notify other parents and take other precautionary measures. It is the best interest of everyone that your child stays home and seeks doctor’s advice when he/she has one of the following symptoms: sore throat, ear-ache, discharge from eyes and ears, swollen neck glands, unexplained rash and skin eruptions or any communicable diseases. In these cases, the child can return to the day care accompanied by a doctor’s note stating that the child is ready to come back to child care and is not contagious.
