Screening & Symptom Monitoring

Below please find detailed procedures we will follow for probable or confirmed cases of COVID-19. In addition, we will continue to offer our regular nursing services. In order to manage trips to the nurse’s offices, we will also now give all faculty access in their rooms and/or buildings to full first aid kits, and they will be trained on how to identify and handle these basic needs. This will allow our nursing staff to be available, if needed, to treat students with respiratory symptoms in a more contained way. We have substitute nurses who have been trained on our systems should a nurse be out. Contact information for our nurses are:

Lyndhurst: (Clinic Phone) 440-423-2100

Vicki Goodrich: (Email) vgood@hawken.edu (Cell) 440-487-3624

Gates Mills: (Clinic Phone) 440-423-2913

Annette Thompson: (Email) athom@hawken.edu (Cell) 440-479-1307

University Circle: (Clinic Phone) 440-423-8802

Gail Burns: (Email) gail.burns@hawken.edu (Cell) 216-926-7972

If symptoms are shown during the school day:

The student will be separated from others and taken to the nurse’s office. For students who need to be escorted to the nurse, a teacher or designated person on duty will walk the child to the nurse. The student and/or teacher with the student will walk outside to get to the nurse’s office when possible.

The nurse will:

Take the student’s temperature.
Note: A fever will result in a student being sent home, in line with Hawken’s long standing policy.
Assess the student’s symptoms.
If needed, the student will enter the isolated rest area. All students will be required to wear a mask in the isolation rest area.
Call the parent/guardian to pick up the student. We will ask parents to be there within the hour for pick-up, preferably within 30 minutes. Surfaces in this area will be sanitized after a student’s departure.
Give the parent or guardian an information sheet upon pick up with helpful next steps, including our recommendation to consult with your healthcare provider.

Confirmed or Diagnosed Case

In the event of a confirmed or diagnosed case of COVID-19, we will contact the local health department and work with them to provide information to support contact-tracing processes. Additionally, we will work to notify close contacts. On the following page is detailed information on our communications process.

Anyone who has been sent home from school after exhibiting one or more symptoms related to COVID-19 may return based on the following terms:

If any ONE of the following symptoms was present (only one of them) AND the symptom completely resolves, a student may return with a note from the parent.

headache
nausea/vomiting
fatigue
muscle aches

If any two of the previous symptoms OR one of the following symptoms was present medical clearance is required in order for the student to return to school.

fever
chills
new onset or worsening nasal congestion not associated with allergies
diarrhea
loss of smell or taste
sore throat
new onset cough
chest pain
difficulty breathing

* at home testing is only okay if it accompanies a telehealth visit and the digital result is emailed to health@hawken.edu

Positive COVID-19 with symptoms

If anyone tests positive in a diagnostic COVID-19 test or is presumed to have the illness by a healthcare professional (a confirmed or probable case) and was symptomatic, he/she may return to school only after all of the following conditions have been met:

At least 3 days have passed since recovery
Fever-free without the use of fever-reducing
medications and
Improvement in symptoms and
At least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared and
Your primary care physician has provided a signed
return-to-school form.

Positive COVID-19, no symptoms

If anyone tests positive in a diagnostic COVID-19 test or is presumed to have the illness but does not get symptoms, they should stay home until:

At least 10 days have passed since the positive result in the diagnostic test (assuming no symptoms appeared during that time) and
Your primary care physician has provided a signed
return-to-school form.

Unvaccinated and quarantined for close contact, no symptoms

Anyone who has been quarantined at home because of confirmed exposure (defined at school as within three feet for at least 15 minutes) may return to school only after all of the following conditions have been met:

The individual has not developed any COVID-19 symptoms (e.g., cough, shortness of breath).

Unvaccinated and quarantined for contact, symptoms appear

Anyone who has been quarantined at home because of confirmed exposure AND has developed symptoms may return to school only after all of the following conditions have been met:

Contacted their healthcare provider; and
If the individual has tested positive, follow the guidelines above
Students may return after 10 days with no testing or 7 days when a test, administered by a physician or pharmacy between days 3-5, comes back negative.