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Swine Flu Information
Please click on links below:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/
Massachusetts Department of Public Health http://www.mass.gov/blog/publichealth
Physicals
Reminder to parents of students entering the 7th grade in the Fall that physicals from a licensed health care practitioner are required by Massachusetts State Law. If your student's physical will be due over the summer, please schedule it now. Every student must have a booster shot of tdap (Boostrix, etc.). This will be number 6 of the Tetanus, Pertussis, and Diphtheria series. No student will be allowed to attend school until Documentation of Immunization is received by the Chocksett Health Office.
Sports
Students who are planning to participate in a CMS sports program must have a physical and a Green card filled out and signed on both sides. Physicals for sports are only good for 13 months, from the date of the physical. Since fall sports start right after we come back to school, please obtain a Green Card from the Front Office or the Health Office before the last day of school, and return it as soon as possible in the fall.
Medications
Parents are reminded that they can pick up their student's medication in the Health Office before the end of the school year. Any medication left after the last day of school will be promptly disposed of by the Health Office.
Students who take medicine on a regular basis or as needed (such as Epi-pens and inhalers), a new Doctor's Orders is required at the beginning of each school year. Students who self-carry inhalers & Epi-pens must have a parent or guardian signed permission form (available from the Health Office), as well as Doctor's Orders at the beginning of the school year.
Judy Hopkins, R.N., CSN
Chocksett Middle School Nurse
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