Important! Clinic Communications

 

We are well aware that testing resources remain scarce in our area. Marymount University announced last week that they have opened a testing resource for their staff, students, and the community. Testing is by appointment only through Curative and can be booked here.

 

As of January 15, health insurance plans will begin reimbursing people for home tests purchased AFTER 1/15/22. Home testing can be a convenient option, but is not currently an accepted test for students testing to return after exposure. Any test conducted by a lab can be used to return to school after an unvaccinated student has been notified of a "close contact."

 

We know it can be easy to breeze through that Magnus checklist at the breakfast table each morning, but we ask that you please be mindful of each question on Magnus and assess your child prior to drop off. Just this week a student displayed very clear signs of contagious illness before 8:30 in the morning. All of our teachers at STM are working extremely hard to create and upload content through the coordination of Mrs. Stocker, to support your child if they need to be home through illness. There is nothing that will happen in the school day for which it is worth sending a sick child to school, especially when the teachers have worked hard to ensure asynchronous work is available from home.

 

Some have continued to struggle with vaccine card upload. Information is available in the 12/15 blast on how to do this from the app. Magnus has informed me that for some people it will work better to upload from a computer, so if you're struggling with the app, please try to add it from a computer. We cannot accept vaccine cards via email or paper copy.