Health Services

The Cove Day School staff collaborates with parents, guardians, students and stakeholders to promote a safe and healthy campus. Students should remain at home if they are ill. Students who become ill during class will be sent to the administration office. The office staff or administrator will contact the student's parent/guardian for pick up at the school.

Dispensing Medication (prescription and over-the-counter)

Cove Day School does not have a school nurse to administer medications in accordance with the BIE's Medication Administration Policy. Therefore, no school staff can give students prescription or over-the-counter medication, including cough drops.

Medical Emergency

In a medical emergency, a Cove Day School staff member will transport the student immediately to the local health facility/hospital. CDS staff will notify the parent/guardian as soon as possible and remain with the student until the parent/guardian arrives on-site and sees/speaks to the doctor.

Infectious Disease Control Policy

Cove Day School, in collaboration with the Indian Health Service, has developed the following guidelines to reduce the spread of communicable diseases in school. If a student is believed to have a communicable or infectious disease, the staff immediately notifies the principal or designee.

The principal or designee in charge then:

1. Take the student to the nearest hospital (Indian Health Service or private) for an evaluation.
2. Contact the student's parent/guardian.
3. Work with the Indian Health Service or other appropriate medical personnel to determine whether the student needs to be isolated or separated.
4. If necessary, the student is placed in a designated isolation room in the dormitory, if the school has a residential program, or in a designated room with a staff member and ensures the student is checked every 10 minutes.
5. If the school has a residential program, it controls transmission of communicable disease via quarantine in the school building and dormitory.
6. If appropriate, notify the parent/guardian in writing of the disease the child was exposed to and whether this is one case or part of an outbreak.

Parents/guardians will also receive information about the infectious disease (i.e., signs and symptoms to notice, incubation period, how it is spread, etc.).