Hadley Public Schools - official web site for the Hadley Public School District, Hadley, Massachusetts: Health Screenings

State law mandates that certain screenings must be offered in school each year.

Upcoming screenings:

HEALTH OFFICE NOTICE
SCREENINGS NOTIFICATION
February 2010

The week following vacation, 2/22 – 2/26, the health office will be conducting the annual screenings for Vision, Height and Weight, and scoliosis during PE classes.

Vision and height and weight Screenings will be done privately in the Health Office by the Nurses, Mrs. McInerney RN or Mrs. Lehman RN. The scoliosis screenings are conducted privately in the individual locker rooms by the nurses. Results are kept strictly confidential.

Specific screenings will done according to grades as mandated by the Department of Public Health.

The screenings are as follows:

Grade 7: scoliosis, vision, and height and weight (BMI result to be mailed home separately)

Grade 8: scoliosis

Grade 9: scoliosis

Grade 10: vision, and height and weight(BMI result to be mailed home separately)

To be exempted from the mandated screenings a note from your child’s personal physician that the screenings have been completed in their office must be sent in to the health office before the screenings are to be done.

Any questions, please call the health office at 582-6446.

Thank you,
Mrs. Lehman RN
Mrs. McInerney RN

Hearing and Vision screening:

All grades K-12 or during years when a waiver is filed with DPH
Vision: K-5, 7 & 9
Hearing: K-3, 7 & 9
All transfer students
Upon parent or teacher request

Annual Postural Screening:

Grades 5-9
Upon parent or teacher request

Students are examined in private by the school nurse. Girls must wear a bathing suit top or a sports bra. For all screenings, parents will be notified by letter if further evaluation is recommended.

Annual Height & Weight Screening and BMI calculation:

All students grade K-12

Lead Screening:

At least one lead test prior to entering kindergarten

Tuberculosis Screening:

TB screening is only recommended for high risk students per physician’s discretion( students entering from Latin America, Africa, Asia (except Japan), Eastern Europe and Russia, the Middle East are considered high risk and should receive baseline Mantoux tests prior to entering Hadley Public schools.

All students are required by state law to participate in the screenings- if you would like to request that your child be exempt from screenings, a written physician’s note must be provided stating that the child does not require the screening.

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