NURSING SERVICES AND HEALTH REQUIREMENTS
The Lincoln-Sudbury Regional Health Office is open from 7:50 a.m. to 2:40 p.m. for students with medical problems and/or routine first aid. Students who feel too ill to go to class should go to the Health Office. Ill or injured students will only be dismissed home with parental permission. If it becomes necessary for a student to take any form of medication at school, a signed note from the parent, the prescribing doctor, and the original container of medicine must be presented to the nurse in charge. All medication will be kept in and dispensed through the Health Office.
State law requires that all 10th grade students have a physical examination by their private physician and that the results be filed in their health record. In addition, all 9th grade students are screened for postural problems; all 10th and 11th grade students undergo vision and hearing screening through the Health Office. If a student is excused from Wellness, a signed and dated letter from the attending physician must be on file in the Health Office. For students participating in the athletic program, a physical examination is required before the tryouts. Students who have a medical excuse for Wellness may not participate in the athletic program.
Massachusetts State Law requires that all transfer students entering LSRHS have a physical examination by their private physician. The law states that “No student (except those exempt for religious or medical reasons) shall be admitted to school without a physicians certificate or a copy from a school in the Commonwealth of their current immunizations.”