School Health Services
Contact a School’s Health Office Directly:
Corporation Nurse
Hana Dodds
*If you have an urgent matter, please contact the Health Aide at EHS at 812-876-2277 ext 2206 and she will find the nurse as she may be out at other schools or covering for another school.
Edgewood Illness Policy
To help keep the Edgewood School community in a safe and healthy environment, there may be instances where we recommend keeping your student at home in the event of illness. These symptoms include:
- Fever of 100.4 or higher
- Vomiting within the past 24 hours
- Diarrhea within the past 24 hours
- COVID positive test
- Body rash with itching and fever
- Head Lice without treatment
- Eye infection with redness itching, purulent eye drainage
Your student may return to school when:
- Fever free for 1 school day without the use of fever-reducing medications
- Vomiting free for 1 school day
- Diarrhea free for 1 school day
- Free from rash, itching, fever, eye drainage for 24 hours or a doctor’s statement explaining his or her symptoms
- For COVID positive students- after quarantining for 5 days from the start of his or her symptoms and no fever for the last 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications
Documents and Helpful Links
A quick reference to help parents decide to keep a child home from school due to illness: I need to stay home when…