Parent Handbook - MWR Fort Leonard Wood

ILLNESS
We take all reasonable precautions to offer a healthy environment
for children. Staff screen children for any signs of illness or symptoms
of contagious disease upon the child’s arrival at the program. Your
child may be denied admission if staff notice signs of illness. You
may feel that these procedures are merely an inconvenience, but they
are for the benefit of all enrolled children. Outlined below are the
illness criteria for denial of services from AR 608-10.
Criteria for Denial of Services
If Your Child Becomes Ill at the Program. When children become ill at the program, they
may be removed from the group setting and taken to an isolation room/area to prevent the spread
of infection. We will then notify the parent that the child must be picked up. If you cannot be
contacted, the center will call your child release or emergency designees. In many instances, you
may need to come to the program and pick up your child. Please remember that a sick child
needs special care and should be picked up in a reasonable amount of time (within one hour) by
either parent or your child release designee (the designee should be able to gain access to the
post). If this individual is not your documented child release designee, the parent must contact
the facility and the individual must provide photo identification. If the program director feels
that immediate medical attention is required, emergency transportation will be arranged. One of
the CYS staff will accompany your child for medical treatment. You will be notified of the
child’s condition/reason for the emergency and where to meet the child. It is imperative that the
program has accurate phone numbers and emergency contacts that can help us locate you in the
event of an emergency.
Your child will be denied care if any of the following conditions exist:
Temperature in excess of 100.5 degrees Fahrenheit (under the arm) for children up to
three months of age, and in excess of 101 degrees Fahrenheit for children over three months of
age.
Inability to participate in daily activities to include outdoor play.
Inability to arouse child when admitted for care in the CYS program.
Illness such as, but not limited to, the following:
o Impetigo: Red, oozing, erosion capped with a golden crust.
o Scabies: Crusted, wavy ridges and tunnels in the webs of the fingers, hands,
wrists, and trunk.
o Ringworm: Flat, spreading, ring, shaped lesions.
o Chicken Pox: Groups of small blisters on a red base, which becomes cloudy
and crusted in five to seven days. Usually accompanied by an itching
sensation.
o Head Lice Nits: Nits attached to hair shafts. Resembles dandruff, but will not
brush out.
o Conjunctivitis: Also Pink Eye. Red, watery eyes with thick yellowish
discharge. This may also be accompanied by an itching sensation.
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