Protocol to Notify Public Health Authority:
Positive COVID-19 Identification:
- Building Principal will contact parents/guardians to inform them the importance of notifying the school immediately of a positive COVID19 identification.
- Building Principal will contact all Staff to inform them of the importance of notifying the Principal or the Principal Designee with a positive COVID-19 test result.
If District/School is informed first:
- When a school is made aware of a positive result(s), immediately contact the District Representative.
- Upon report from a building, District Representative will report within 24 hours to the appropriate County Health Contact.
- Jackson County: Communicable Disease Department
Phone: (541) 774-8209 (During business Hours) (541) 618-4651 (After 5:00 pm message provides contact information for on call person)
- Jackson County: Communicable Disease Department
- The LPHA will need to conduct an initial review to know what contact and/or cohort logs to request. Once the review has been completed, the LPHA will request a specific set of contact and/or cohort logs from the district/school, and request to have those contact and/or cohort logs as soon as they can be provided, at maximum 24 hours.
If LPHA is informed first:
- When the LPHA is made aware of a positive result(s), the LPHA will notify the District Representative within 24 hours.
- Upon report from the LPHA, the District Representative will work with the LPHA to determine next steps.
- The LPHA will request a specific set of contact and/or cohort logs from the district/school, and request to have those contact and/or cohort logs as soon as they can be provided, at maximum 24 hours.
If School Identifies an Illness Cluster:
- School front office staff track absences for the day, and utilize the Influenza Like Illness Tracking spreadsheet/other tracking spreadsheet to mark symptoms/reason for absence. Office staff use the “line list” spreadsheet to do that.
- Once complete, they notify district nurse/other health staff if the log identified an illness cluster.
- District nurse/other health staff together with the District Representative makes determination if it should be reported to LPHA.
- If determination is YES, district nurse/other health staff will call the LPHA number for questions (attach other protocol with contact information or support. If determined by LPHA, the school/district will fax the completed log to the LPHA (not email due to confidentiality reasons). District Representative is notified.
- LPHA reviews faxed log and makes determination if “opening an outbreak” (LPHA term for tracking illness outbreaks is necessary.)
- If yes, LPHA gets an outbreak number and request contact and/or cohort logs from the school and request to have those contact and/or cohort logs as soon as they can be provided, at maximum 24 hours.
- If no, LPHA continue business as usual no need to send additional logs unless another cluster is identified.
- District nurse/other health staff and District Representative is notified by the LPHA of their determination.
All Public Health Contacts
Jackson County:
Operational Blueprint Submission, Questions and Support:
Bonnie Simpson, Environmental Health Specialist
Email: SimpsoBL@jacksoncounty.org Phone: (541) 816-5648
COVID-19 Case/Concern:
Communicable Disease Department
Phone: (541) 774-8209 (During business hours)
(541) 618-4651 (After 5:00 pm message provides contact information for on call person)