Health Room
We would like to introduce the Olney Health Room Staff. Harriet Caplan, is a registered nurse employed by the department of Health and Human Services and assigned to your child’s school. She will also be covering 2 other schools in the area. Some of the services that the school nurse provides include health assessments, crisis intervention, health counseling, case management, referral services and health education and promotion.
The Health Room is staffed daily by a School Health Room Technician, Hilda Kehyaian. The Health Room Technician is here to provide first aid and administer medications. It is important that the school has accurate home, work, and cell phone numbers and emergency contact information in the event a parent cannot be reached.
Mrs. Caplan: harriet_L_caplan@mcpsmd.org
Ms. Kehyaian: hilda_h_kehyaian@mcpsmd.org
Vaccination Records
Families may email their child’s vaccination records to SHSIZ@montgomerycountymd.gov and copy the school’s registrar or attendance secretary.
Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services
Click Here for the FREE IMMUNIZATION CLINICS SCHEDULE FOR STATE MANDATED IMMUNIZATIONS
Vision and Hearing Screening
- Provided annually by the Department of HHS through the Health Room
- Done for all kindergarteners, first graders and those new to MCPS, as well as those children referred by staff or parent request
Medications Administered at School
Medications, both prescription and over the counter, must have the proper paperwork:
- Form 525-13 (medication)
- Form 525-14 (epipens)
- Over the counter medicine must be in an unopened package.
- Medications MUST BE brought to school by a parent or guardian and must be properly labeled with the label instructions (a pharmacy label for prescription meds) matching those on the form. We CANNOT accept medications brought to school by a student
When to Keep you Child Home from School
Please be alert to your child’s health and use your best judgement as to when to send him/her to school. It is in your child’s best interest, as well as that of the other children and staff members, to keep your child home if they are not well. We do recommend that they stay at home for 24 hours after vomiting or the last evidence of a fever without medicine.