Health Services

MEDICAL FORMS

RESOURCE LINKS

Respiratory Virus Guidance
Mental Health
Countryside Public Health

Heather Goslee, District Nurse
Montevideo High School - 320.269.6446, Ext 1173
Montevideo Middle School - 320.269.6431, Ext 2161
hgoslee@montevideoschools.org

Sarah Jensen
Montevideo Elementary Schools:
Ramsey - 320.269.6584, Ext 4227
Sanford - 320.269.6538, Ext 3266
sjensen@montevideoschools.org 

IMMUNIZATIONS
The Minnesota K-12 Immunization Law requires students to receive certain vaccines for school or submit an exemption. This requirement applies for all public, private, online, and home schools in Minnesota.

Required Immunizations include Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus (DTaP/Tdap); Polio (IPV); Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR); Hepatitis B (Hep B); Meningococcal ACWY (MenACWY); and Varicella (Chicken Pox). Parents/guardians must complete and file a form if your child requires an exemption for medical reasons or if you are opting for a non-medical exemption due to personal beliefs.

Are Your Kids Ready? View the required immunizations chart, access the Medical and Non-Medical Exemption Form, and learn more by selecting the MN K-12 Immunization Law document:

MN K-12 Immunization Law/Form - English
MN K-12 Immunization Law/Form - Spanish

Immunizations and number of doses vary according to age and grade level. Make sure your child’s immunizations are up-to-date and on file at your child's school. If you have any questions, contact your healthcare provider or Countryside Public Health, 1-800-657-3291.

HEAD LICE PROCEDURE
A student found to have head lice in his/her hair will be sent home from school. Treatment with lice-killing shampoo will have to be completed and ALL eggs removed from the hair before he/she will be readmitted to school. Parents are responsible for checking other children at home and for implementing control measures to prevent reinfestation of head lice.

For more information Head Lice Fact Sheet: 
https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/headlice/headlice.html

DENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES
Minnesota Dental Association Dental Care Resources

ILLNESSES
We follow Hennepin County's current recommendations for childcare centers and schools with illnesses. Detailed information can be found at: 

https://www.hennepin.us/en/residents/health-medical/infectious-diseases

Communicable (contagious or infectious) illnesses should be reported to the school as soon as possible. 

Most Common Illnesses are below: 
Stomach Flu: Student can return after 24 hours after the last episode of vomiting or diarrhea 

Influenza: Student can return after temperature returns to normal without the use of fever-reducing medications

Fever over 100: Student can return to school once temperature returns to normal without the use of fever-reducing medications

Ear Infection: Not contagious, but student should see a health care provider and can return when pain is under control.

Strep Throat: Students can return to school after being on antibiotics for at least 24 hours and no fever present. 

Conjunctivitis (pink eye): The student is not excluded unless they have a fever or are not healthy enough to participate in school/activities. 

RESPIRATORY ILLNESSES
CDC Respiratory Illnesses

When you may have a respiratory virus...
Stay home and away from others (including people you live with who are not sick) if you have respiratory virus symptoms that aren't better explained by another cause. These symptoms can include fever, chills, fatigue, cough, runny nose, and headache, among others.

  • You can go back to your normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, both are true:

    • Your symptoms are getting better overall, and

    • You have not had a fever (and are not using fever-reducing medication).

  • When you go back to your normal activities, take added precaution over the next 5 days, such as taking additional steps for cleaner air, hygiene, masks, physical distancing, and/or testing when you will be around other people indoors. This is especially important to protect people with factors that increase their risk of severe illness from respiratory viruses.

    • Keep in mind that you may still be able to spread the virus that made you sick, even if you are feeling better. You are likely to be less contagious at this time, depending on factors like how long you were sick or how sick you were.

    • If you develop a fever or you start to feel worse after you have gone back to normal activities, stay home and away from others again until, for at least 24 hours, both are true: your symptoms are improving overall, and you have not had a fever (and are not using fever-reducing medication). Then take added precaution for the next 5 days.