Our administration and campus health coordinator have spent a great amount of time preparing specific policies and procedures for the impact of the H1N1 flu.  Our nurse has been in contact with State and Local Health Officials on CDC Guidance for School Responses to H1N1 during the 2009-10 school year. 

Please be conscious of where and who your students will be with as we have had a healthy beginning of the school year.  Besides your own personal assessment of your child, the school will be monitoring for symptoms of ILI (influenza-like illness).  If your student is found to be with any flu-like symptoms, you will be asked to pick them up from school within an hour of notification. Students with flu-like symptoms will be quarantined in the health room while parents are notified. Influenza often shows the following symptoms:

Fever above 100° accompanied with any one or more of the following:

If your child has a fever with any of the above listed symptoms, please keep your child at home and contact our school nurse, Elisa Pener, at 913-327-8189, or epener@hbha.edu. Due to the nature of this year’s flu season; you need to be especially conscious of reporting illness to the school. 

Following CDC guidelines, students with ILI should remain home until at least 24 hours after they are fever free and have a complete resolution of symptoms without the use of fever reducing medications i.e.; Tylenol/Motrin.

Please continue to review good respiratory etiquette and hand hygiene with your student, (cover your cough and wash hands often). To that end HBHA will mount antibacterial hand sanitizers throughout the school and, through the generosity of the PTO, antibacterial soap will be placed next to the wash stations in the hallways.

We thank you for your continued cooperation.