Annual Health/Emergency Contact Letter for the 2011-2012 school year will be sent to your home over the summer. Please mail or return the form by the first day of school. Please make sure you send it to the health office of the school where your student will be attending in the fall. If mailing, please mark the envelope "Attention Health Office."Emergency Action Plans
If your student has asthma, seizures, diabetes, severe food allergies, or severe bee sting reactions, we request completion of forms specific to these conditions yearly. They will be sent home with your student before the end of this school year. Please return them to school next August with medications, as needed.
End of Year Medication Pick-up
Medications/Inhalers/Epi-Pens/etc. cannot be sent home with elementary and middle school students. Medications/inhalers/epi-pens/etc. not picked up cannot be discarded due to the tighter pharmaceutical waste regulations. Please help the district curtail unnecessary costs by picking up your student's unused medication.
We recommend leaving rescue medication (Epi-Pens, etc.) at school until dismissal of the last day. Please pick up all medications no later than June 9, 2011 (by dismissal time).
Please call your school's Health Office if you wish to make other arrangements.
Asthma and Diabetes Camps
Medica Health Plan offers a real summer camp experience for children ages 7 to 16 years who have asthma. Children can swim, canoe and make new friends. At camp, kids also learn how to live an active life with asthma. Medical care is available at all times during camp. Medica is also providing children with diabetes a chance to go to summer camp! Children ages 5 to 16 years can learn how to manage their diabetes and enjoy traditional camp activities. Medical care is available at all times, with meals and snacks managed by a registered dietician.
If eligible, children may only attend one camp. To register, members should call Medica Social Services at 952-992-3535 or 1-800-373-8335 and press option 4, Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. For more information about asthma camp, please visit http://www.lungmn.org/ or for the diabetes camps, www.diabetes.org/adacampneedlepoint or www.diabetes.org/adacampsioux.
Enjoy summer break!
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