{"id":107,"date":"2025-04-09T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/gill-elementary-school\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:57:09","slug":"health-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/gill-elementary-school\/helpful-links\/health-services","title":{"rendered":"Health Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At Gill Elementary, we do our best to make sure our students are in their best physical condition to soak up the daily schedule teachers have planned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a registered nurse, Carol Varner, on staff to help facilitate your child\u2019s medical needs. Please do not hesitate to contact her with any concerns or questions regarding your child\u2019s health.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Effective Communication<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact our nurse at (413) 863-7458, and leave a message at any time to update us with any information we may need to be aware of regarding your child. Don\u2019t forget to leave accurate contact information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reporting an&nbsp;Absence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Reporting an absence to the main office: Call (413) 863-3255 and dial &#8220;0&#8221; to report your child absent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sick Child Guidelines<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We strongly encourage parents to responsibly assess whether their child is in adequate health to attend classes. Students should not attend school:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If they have a temperature of 100 degrees or higher<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Within 24 hours of antibiotics being prescribed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If they are experiencing vomiting and\/or diarrhea<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If they have severe cold symptoms, an upper respiratory infection, a persistent cough, or a runny nose that they cannot manage by themselves or contain with tissues<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If they have been diagnosed with a communicable disease or illness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We ask that students stay home for at least 24 hours after resuming a normal temperature. Please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/gill-elementary-school\/about-us\/teachers-staff\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"62\">contact our school nurse\u00a0<\/a>at (413) 863-7458 before sending your child back to school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Gill Elementary, we do our best to make sure our students are in their best physical condition to soak up the daily schedule teachers have planned.&nbsp; We have a registered nurse, Carol Varner, on staff to help facilitate your child\u2019s medical needs. Please do not hesitate to contact her with any concerns or questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":91,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/link-title":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/exclude-page":false},"class_list":["post-107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/gill-elementary-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/gill-elementary-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/gill-elementary-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/gill-elementary-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/gill-elementary-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/gill-elementary-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/gill-elementary-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions\/173"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/gill-elementary-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmrsd.org\/gill-elementary-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}