Health & Wellness Fair

MHS PTSA is partnering with our M9 & Main Counseling team to sponsor the upcoming Health and Wellness Fair. The Fairs’ focus will be on encouraging students to incorporate healthy living and coping strategies. 

All students will get the opportunity to choose to attend this event during their lunch periods on April 7th. 

We are asking for your support of purchasing items for interactive experiences and Gift Cards for raffle prizes. We’ve provided an Amazon Wish List and Sign-Up Genius to share our needs. 

Please have all items delivered by Tuesday April 5th to the M9 or Main Front Office .

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COVID RECOVERY

POSTPONED Due to North Texas Weather – watch for updates.

COVID-19 Call Center

Lab-Confirmed or Exposure ONLY


STUDENT ON CAMPUS

If your child experiences any of the COVID-19 symptoms OR learns they have been exposed to someone who has lab-confirmed COVID-19 test results while they are on campus, please contact the school nurse.

STUDENT OFF CAMPUS

If your child experiences any of the COVID-19 symptoms OR learns they have been exposed to someone who has lab-confirmed COVID-19 test results during school hours, please call the district’s COVID-19 Call Center (CCC). 

NOTE: If your child already has a COVID-19 plan that was created by the campus nurse, please do NOT call the CCC; the call center nurses do not have the ability to alter your child’s campus-created isolation or quarantine plan. Instead, please contact your campus administrator or school nurse if you have any questions about their campus-created isolation or quarantine plan.


COVID-19 CALL CENTER CONTACT INFO
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| (469) 444-3558
HOURS | 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.


“Close contact” is defined as being within 6 feet for a cumulative duration of 15 minutes.

Know the Signs

Child feeling sick? Fever?

Reminder for Parents from the Marcus Nurse:
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This is a gentle reminder that if your student is sick, please keep them at home. School policy states that students with a fever of 100 degrees or more should be at home until they are fever free for 24 hours, without the aid of fever reducing medications. For other diagnosed infectious conditions, such as strep throat, please follow the guidelines and medications recommended by your doctor. This may include staying at home until antibiotics are on board for 24-48 hours.

It is wonderful that students want to be at school!  It is not wonderful to have a sick student spreading illness to other students. Please be considerate to others, if your son or daughter is ill, keep them at home. We will welcome them back with open arms, when they are better! And if you have any questions, feel free to contact Nurse Boyd.

Distracted Driving Awareness Month

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Ebola – In Perspective

I spent last week in downtown Dallas for a leadership forum and as you might expect, there was a lot of discussion about Ebola. There were folks from all over North America attending. The discussion intensified when the news broke of another health worker being diagnosed. Even with all that going on, there was never panic or hysteria about Ebola. Even when we found out that there were extra airport precautions being put in place, folks took the news in stride and just planned to get there early. In my opinion, this is the right type of approach. Stay informed, make great decisions for you and your family but don’t freak out. This is America, we will deal with this and move forward.

I had a chance to listen to Dr. Waddell discuss Ebola and the district response to the latest news. LISD chose to keep the schools open while some in the area clev68osed after reports of the Frontier Airlines flight became known. The administration has been working closely with the Denton County Health Department and all were in agreement that there is no risk to our students or staff. We need to educate ourselves on this issue and not fall prey to scare tactics. We need to be vigilant, but quite frankly, I’m more concerned with the Enterovirus. This is a real, credible threat to our kids and deserves attention. As mentioned in a letter last week, beginning Oct. 3, the district implemented intensive sanitation on all high-touch areas at all LISD schools due to concerns regarding the Enterovirus and the upcoming flu season. Both of these viruses are considered highly contagious. Since these protocols were already in place, no additional cleaning requirements are necessary to address Ebola concerns.

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Below is President Obama’s weekly address that focused on Ebola. The video is about 4.5 minutes to watch. If you’d rather read it, the transcript is below as well.

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Today, I want to take a few minutes to speak with you-directly and clearly-about Ebola: what we’re doing about it, and what you need to know. Because meeting a public health challenge like this isn’t just a job for government. All of us-citizens, leaders, the media-have a responsibility and a role to play. This is a serious disease, but we can’t give in to hysteria or fear-because that only makes it harder to get people the accurate information they need. We have to be guided by the science. We have to remember the basic facts.

First, what we’re seeing now is not an “outbreak” or an “epidemic” of Ebola in America. We’re a nation of more than 300 million people. To date, we’ve seen three cases of Ebola diagnosed here-the man who contracted the disease in Liberia, came here and sadly died; the two courageous nurses who were infected while they were treating him. Our thoughts and our prayers are with them, and we’re doing everything we can to give them the best care possible. Now, even one infection is too many. At the same time, we have to keep this in perspective. As our public health experts point out, every year thousands of Americans die from the flu.

Second, Ebola is actually a difficult disease to catch. It’s not transmitted through the air like the flu. You cannot get it from just riding on a plane or a bus. The only way that a person can contract the disease is by coming into direct contact with the bodily fluids of somebody who is already showing symptoms. I’ve met and hugged some of the doctors and nurses who’ve treated Ebola patients. I’ve met with an Ebola patient who recovered, right in the Oval Office. And I’m fine.

Third, we know how to fight this disease. We know the protocols. And we know that when they’re followed, they work. So far, five Americans who got infected with Ebola in West Africa have been brought back to the United States-and all five have been treated safely, without infecting healthcare workers.

And this week, at my direction, we’re stepping up our efforts. Additional CDC personnel are on the scene in Dallas and Cleveland. We’re working quickly to track and monitor anyone who may have been in close contact with someone showing symptoms. We’re sharing lessons learned so other hospitals don’t repeat the mistakes that happened in Dallas. The CDC’s new Ebola rapid response teams will deploy quickly to help hospitals implement the right protocols. New screening measures are now in place at airports that receive nearly all passengers arriving from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. And we’ll continue to constantly review our measures, and update them as needed, to make sure we’re doing everything we can to keep Americans safe.

Finally, we can’t just cut ourselves off from West Africa, where this disease is raging. Our medical experts tell us that the best way to stop this disease is to stop it at its source-before it spreads even wider and becomes even more difficult to contain. Trying to seal off an entire region of the world-if that were even possible-could actually make the situation worse. It would make it harder to move health workers and supplies back and forth. Experience shows that it could also cause people in the affected region to change their travel, to evade screening, and make the disease even harder to track.

So the United States will continue to help lead the global response in West Africa. Because if we want to protect Americans from Ebola here at home, we have to end it over there. And as our civilian and military personnel serve in the region, their safety and health will remain a top priority.

As I’ve said before, fighting this disease will take time. Before this is over, we may see more isolated cases here in America. But we know how to wage this fight. And if we take the steps that are necessary, if we’re guided by the science-the facts, not fear-then I am absolutely confident that we can prevent a serious outbreak here in the United States, and we can continue to lead the world in this urgent effort.

LISD Health Update – Oct. 18

Dear Lewisville ISD Parents:

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Ebola FAQ (17-OCT-2014)

This letter is to provide an update from the parent letter sent on Thursday, Oct. 16 regarding the Ebola virus. We want to assure you that no student or staff member has had contact with the Ebola virus. Additionally, no student or staff member was on Frontier Airlines flight 1142 on Oct. 10 or flight 1143 on Oct. 13.

The Denton County Health Department is not currently monitoring any of our 53,000+ students or any one of our 6,000 staff members. Therefore, no student or staff member is at risk to contract the Ebola virus.

We have received requests to release campus names related to the staff member and students who had relatives on the same flights as the healthcare worker. LISD is not at liberty to share this information due to HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and FERPA (Federal Education Right to Privacy Act) laws. Because there is no public health risk for our students or staff members, these laws prohibit the district releasing school and student names.

The district recognizes some school districts released campus names and closed for cleaning. These campuses had students or staff members on the flights in question. LISD did not have any student or staff member on these flights.

Beginning Oct. 3, the district implemented intensive sanitation on all high-touch areas at all LISD schools due to concerns regarding the Enterovirus and the upcoming flu season. Both of these viruses are considered highly contagious. Since these protocols were already in place, no additional cleaning requirements are necessary.

We continue to remain in contact with the Denton County Health Department to keep updated on the latest information on all communicable diseases. LISD will continue to follow the appropriate directives from local, state and Federal health agencies.

In an effort to provide additional answers to your questions, attached is a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document. We will continue to update these questions.

Again, thank you for sharing your concerns. If there is any new information, we will provide updates as needed.

Sincerely,

Office of Public Information and Community Relations

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Estimados padres de Lewisville ISD:

Esta carta es para proporcionarles una actualización de la carta a padres enviada el jueves 16 de octubre relacionada al virus del Ébola. Queremos asegurarle que ningún estudiante o miembro del personal ha tenido contacto con el virus del Ébola en los vuelos 1142 del 10 de octubre o el vuelo 1143 del 13 de octubre de la aerolínea Frontier y ningún estudiante o miembro del personal ha tenido contacto con el virus del Ébola.

El Departamento de Salud del Condado de Denton actualmente no está monitoreando ninguno de nuestros más de 53,000 estudiantes o ninguno de nuestros 6,000 miembros del personal. Por lo tanto, ningún estudiante o miembro del personal está en riesgo de contraer el virus del Ébola.

Hemos recibido peticiones de revelar el nombre del plantel escolar relacionado al miembro y los estudiantes quienes tienen familiares en el mismo vuelo donde estuvo la trabajadora de la salud. LISD no está en la libertad de compartir la información debido a las Leyes HIPAA (Ley de Portabilidad y Responsabilidad de Seguros Médicos) y FERPA (Ley Federal de Derechos Educativos y de Privacidad de la Familia). Debido a que no hay riesgo de salud público para nuestros estudiantes o miembros del personal, estas leyes prohíben al distrito revelar información de los nombres de la escuela o estudiantes.

El distrito reconoce que algunos distritos revelaron nombres de planteles y cerraron para limpieza. Estos planteles tenían estudiantes o miembros del personal en los vuelos en cuestión. LISD no tenía ningún estudiante o miembro del personal en estos vuelos.

Comenzando el 3 de octubre, el distrito implementó saneamiento intensivo en todas las áreas de alto contacto en las escuelas de LISD debido a preocupaciones relacionadas al Enterovirus y la próxima temporada de la gripe. Ambos virus son considerados altamente contagiosos. Ya que estos protocolos estaban puestos en su lugar, no son necesarias limpiezas adicionales.

Continuamos en contacto con el Departamento de Salud del Condado de Denton para mantenernos actualizados en la última información de todas las enfermedades transmisibles. LISD continuará siguiendo las directivas apropiadas de las agencias de salud locales, estatales y federales.

En un esfuerzo de proporcionar respuestas adicionales a sus preguntas, un documento de Preguntas Frecuentes en español le será enviado el lunes. Continuaremos actualizando estas preguntas.

Nuevamente, gracias por compartir sus preocupaciones. Si hubiera alguna nueva información, proveeremos actualizaciones según necesitadas.

Atentamente,

Oficina de Información Pública y Relaciones con la comunidad