{"id":9637,"date":"2025-03-01T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/schoolhealth\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T00:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:57:34","slug":"schoolhealth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/epi\/schoolhealth\/","title":{"rendered":"epi\/schoolhealth ~  School Health  &#8211; Delaware Health and Social Services &#8211; State of Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-swiftype-index=\"true\">\r\n  <br>\r\n  <div class=\"container\" id=\"main_header\">\r\n    <!-- BEGIN readspeaker div -->\r\n    <div class=\"rs_skip rsbtn rs_preserve\" id=\"readspeaker_button1\">\r\n      <a accesskey=\"L\" class=\"rsbtn_play\" href=\"https:\/\/app-na.readspeaker.com\/cgi-bin\/rsent?customerid=7262&#038;lang=en_us&#038;readid=main_content&#038;url=https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/epi\/schoolhealth.html\" title=\"Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker\">\r\n      <span class=\"rsbtn_left rsimg rspart\"><span class=\"rsbtn_text\"><span>Listen<\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n      <span class=\"rsbtn_right rsimg rsplay rspart\"><\/span>\r\n      <\/a>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <!-- END readspeaker div -->\r\n    <header class=\"pull-left\">\r\n      <h1>\r\n        <!--[type=EDIT name=\"Page Title\"]-->School Health<!--[END]-->\r\n      <\/h1>\r\n    <\/header>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <br>\r\n  <div class=\"container\">\r\n    <div class=\"row\">\r\n      <div class=\"col-md-3\" id=\"leftCol\">\r\n        <div class=\"panel-group\" id=\"accordion\">\r\n          <div class=\"panel sectionmenu_panel\">\r\n            <div class=\"panel-heading\">\r\n              <p class=\"panel-title\"><a class=\"agency_nav\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapseOne\"><strong><i class=\"fa fa-align-justify fa-fw\"><\/i> Public Health Menu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"panel-collapse collapse in\" id=\"collapseOne\">\r\n              <div class=\"panel-body\" id=\"clf_nav\">\r\n                <ul class=\"nav nav-stacked nav-pills-clf\" id=\"agency_sidebar\">\r\n                  <li>\r\n                    <a href=\"\/dph\/\">\r\n                      <h2>Home <i class=\"fa fa-home fa-fw\"><\/i><\/h2>\r\n                    <\/a>\r\n                  <\/li>\r\n                  <li class=\"toplevel\">\r\n                    <a data-parent=\"#agency_sidebar\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#HomeMenu\">\r\n                      <h2>About <i class=\"fa fa-caret-right fa-fw\"><\/i><\/h2>\r\n                    <\/a>\r\n                    <ul class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"HomeMenu\">\r\n                      <li><a href=\"\/dph\/about.html\">About DPH<\/a><\/li>\r\n                      <li><a href=\"\/dph\/sections.html\">Sections &#038; 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height: 525px;\"><\/p>\r\n        <p> <\/p>\r\n        <h2><strong style=\"color: rgb(128, 0, 0);\">What is Delaware\u2019s Infectious Disease School Health program?<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n        <p>The goal of Delaware\u2019s School Health Infection Prevention Program is to keep children and adults who care for them, educators, and families healthy. Students rely on school staff such as nurses, teachers, and administrators to maintain healthy educational environments through teaching prevention strategies, looking out for potentially sick students, and mitigating situations when illnesses do occur in schools.<\/p>\r\n        <p>Respiratory viruses, such as COVID-19, Influenza, and RSV, are a large proponent of illnesses that can spread rapidly through schools and childcare settings. <\/p>\r\n        <p>Aside from respiratory illnesses, other common school reportable disease includes pertussis (whooping cough) and varicella (chickenpox). Other non-reportable conditions can occur in schools and childcare settings can occur and DPH encourages schools to reach out regarding any concerns or inquiries related to infectious diseases within school and childcare setting.  <\/p>\r\n        <p>The school health program has created various resources and quick reference guides for infectious diseases in childcare settings. <\/p>\r\n        <p><span style=\"color:#800000;\"><strong>Outbreak Prevention<\/strong><\/span><br>\r\n          Schools are common areas for illnesses to spread rapidly, quickly resulting in outbreaks among groups such as classrooms, sports teams, and clubs.  To prevent the spread of illness, encourage frequent hand washing, clean and sanitize surfaces, and teach children to sneeze and cough into elbows or tissues.\r\n        <\/p>\r\n        <p>Additionally, vaccination for respiratory virus and other vaccine preventable diseases that are commonly spread in school, are required or strongly encouraged to prevent the spread of illness. It is important to stay up to date on vaccines and receive full dosages of the multi-dose vaccinations to ensure maximum protection against infectious diseases. For information on required school vaccinations and vaccine exemptions refer to: https:\/\/www.dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/dpc\/immunize.html<br>\r\n          Parents are encouraged to notify school nurse or staff if child is sick to prevent school outbreaks and to keep child home if experience symptoms of illnesses or have been diagnosed by provider with an infectious disease until symptoms have resolved. \r\n        <\/p>\r\n        <p><span style=\"color:#800000;\"><strong>Reporting<\/strong><\/span><br>\r\n          The Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology encourages schools to reach out for guidance and are to report school outbreaks or illnesses to the School Health Program in Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology. 302-744-4990 and 1-888-295-5156 or <a href=\"mailto:reportdisease@delaware.gov\">reportdisease@delaware.gov<\/a>.\r\n        <\/p>\r\n        <p> <\/p>\r\n        <p> <\/p>\r\n        <h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color:#800000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Resources for School Nurses<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\r\n        <p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/dph\/pdf\/ChildCareManual2021.pdf\">Childcare manual<\/a><\/p>\r\n        <p> <\/p>\r\n        <p> <\/p>\r\n        <h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/dph\/img\/hcworker.jpg\" style=\"width: 228px; height: 168px; float: right;\"><\/span><\/h2>\r\n        <div>\r\n          <h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/h2>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n        <h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/h2>\r\n        <h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/h2>\r\n        <!--[END]-->\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <!-- \/container -->\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen School Health Public Health Menu Home About About DPH Sections &#038; Programs Office Locations Contact Info Calendar Services A-Z Services Air &#038; Water Quality Birth, Death, &#038; Marriage Records Clinics Health Data &#038; Statistics Emergency Preparedness Health &#038; Wellness Healthy Homes Healthy Workplaces Laboratory Restaurant Inspections Screening and Testing WIC Additional Services Information A-Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":9615,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9637","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12130,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9637\/revisions\/12130"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}