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Health Policies

Immunizations

State law requires all children to be fully immunized who are attending child care centers, unless their parents are members of a religion whose belief prevents immunizations. Upon enrollment, each parent must complete and sign a State of Oregon Immunization Form.

We intend to promote and extend the protection of healthy children, preventing illness whenever possible, as well as to provide the most appropriate environment and care for the well being of the child who becomes ill. We exclude ill children from the center:

• When the presence of the child poses a risk of the spread of infection to the other children
• When the ill child requires more attention and care than is available by the regularly scheduled staff.

Guidelines for Exclusion

In compliance with the Rules for the Certification of Child Care Centers', the State of Oregon, the center shall not admit or retain in care a child who has one of the following symptoms, or combination of symptoms, or illness:

• Fever over 100 degrees F taken under the arm.
• Diarrhea (more than one abnormally loose, runny, watery or bloody stool).
• Vomiting.
• Nausea.
• Severe cough.
• Unusual yellow color to skin or eyes.
• Skin or eye lesions or rashes that are severe, weeping, or pus-filled.
• Stiff neck and headache with one or more of the symptoms listed above.
• Difficulty breathing or abnormal wheezing.
• Complaints of severe pain.

 A child who shows signs of illness, as defined in this rule, shall be isolated and the parent will be notified and asked to remove the child from the center as soon as possible. A child must be symptom free for 24 hours without the aid of pain or fever reducers prior to re-admittance to the center.