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Health & Safety Requirements - ODE & OHA

Please see the chart below, When to Stay Home, if you have questions about your current health status before coming to campus. This is a simple, symptom-based exclusion chart that will help to ensure the health and safety of students, staff, volunteers and visitors to the Siuslaw schools.

General Illness & Symptoms - When to Stay Home - A simple chart for all illnesses and communicable diseases. This follows the standard health and wellness policies of the school district that have been in place for years. Please see Communicable Disease section below, and work to keep everyone as healthy as possible this upcoming winter.

School-Level Communicable Disease Management Plan -

Symptom-Based Exclusion Guidelines: Students and staff must be excluded from the school setting if they are in the communicable stages of a school-restrictable disease. Symptoms which commonly indicate a communicable disease are listed below.

After being ill, students and staff may return to school when:

FEVER: fever-free for 24 hours

  • MAY RETURN AFTER fever-free for 24 hours without taking fever- reducing medicine.

DIARRHEA OR VOMITING: symptom-free for 24 hours OR cleared by healthcare provider

HEADACHE WITH STIFF NECK AND FEVER: fever-free for 24 hours AND symptoms resolve

  • MAY RETURN AFTER fever-free for 24 hours without taking fever-reducing medicine AND symptoms resolve.

  • This combination of symptoms may indicate a serious condition. Advise student’s guardian to seek medical attention.

SKIN RASH OR SORES: rash is gone OR until sores are dry or can be completely covered OR cleared by healthcare provider

EYE REDNESS WITH COLORED DRAINAGE: symptoms resolve OR cleared by healthcare provider

JAUNDICE: cleared by healthcare provider.

*DIFFICULTY BREATHING OR SHORTNESS OF BREATH not explained by situation such as exercise: feeling unable to catch their breath, gasping for air, breathing too fast or too shallowly, breathing with extra effort such as using muscles of the stomach, chest, or neck.

  • MAY RETURN AFTER symptoms improving for 24 hours.

  • This symptom is likely to require immediate medical attention.

*NEW COUGH OR DIFFICULTY BREATHING OR SHORTHNESS OF BREATH OR NEW LOSS OF TASTE OR SMELL: after symptoms have been improving for 24 hours

 Designated Point of Contact: Designated staff will be responsible to responding to specific health concerns within each school building, as appropriate this will be the principal:

  • Siuslaw Elementary School – Amy Flora

  • Siuslaw Middle School – Andrew Marohl

  • Siuslaw High School – Michael Harklerode

Vaccination Information and Clinics – As requested by Lane County Public Health, the Oregon Health Authority, FEMA, or other community health partners in the promotion of public health, the Siuslaw School District will continue to provide information regarding vaccine clinics to protect against COVID-19.

District Policies – Communicable Disease

These policies list the ‘restrictable diseases’ for which a student or staff person may be excluded from school, as per OAR 333-019-0010

School administrators are required to exclude staff and students from school whom they have reason to suspect have been exposed to certain communicable diseases.