Payson Roundup

Editor:

The Payson Unified School District health care providers are diligent in their quest in keeping students healthy and in preventing the spread of disease.

Determining a child’s temperature can be a useful tool in the decision making process when parents must consider if a child should be kept home from school due to illness.

In a proactive effort in helping to prevent the spread of illness and disease, the Mogollon Health Alliance Gracie Lee Haught Children’s Memorial Fund recently made it possible to provide one oral thermometer to each household with children enrolled within the district in grades K-8.

Thank you to Judy Baker and Jan Parsons along with the Mogollon Health Alliance and Gracie Lee Haught Children’s Memorial Fund for their sponsorship in making this project possible.

Also, thank you to the Gila County Health Department personnel for visiting our schools and making both seasonal and H1N1 flu vaccines available to our students.

And foremost, thank you to the parents and guardians of our students who, often, must make last-minute arrangements in order to keep their children home when they become ill and cannot attend school.

Together, we can all meet the challenge in keeping our children and community healthy.

Laurie Lindell

School Health Care Providers

Payson Unified School District #10