§ 49.15 Health and Medical Care.
RCNY § 49.15
(a)A school shall have a licensed physician who shall be in charge of the health care services for the children. The Department shall provide the services of such a physician in public schools and in other schools which request such service.
(b)When a child is injured or becomes ill under such circumstances that immediate medical care is needed, the person in charge shall obtain necessary emergency medical care and shall notify the parents or guardian of the child.
(c)When the Department is of the opinion that any child who is attending school is in need of medical attention, the person in charge of the school shall promptly notify his parents or guardian of the fact, and may also notify them that a medical examination of the child will be made by the school physician on a date not less than ten days after the sending of the notice. If, ten days after the sending of such notice, the parent or guardian has not registered an objection to such an examination, and has not presented a statement by a private, licensed physician that the child has been recently examined and is currently under care, the person in charge shall notify the school physician who shall then examine the child. When the Department is of the opinion that any child attending school is in need of immediate medical attention and that delay would be dangerous to health, the child may be examined immediately, and the child's parents or guardian shall be notified.
(d)The person in charge of a school or public or private high school shall not permit a child who is a case, contact or carrier of communicable disease to attend when required to be isolated or excluded by 24 RCNY Health Code Article 11. A child who has been a case, contact or carrier shall not be permitted to return to a school until: (1) He presents a certificate of recovery issued by the Department, if he was a case of tuberculosis, a case or carrier of typhoid or paratyphoid A or B fever, or a case, carrier or household contact of diphtheria or smallpox; or, (2) After the period of isolation, if he was a case of measles, mumps, German measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, streptococcal sore throat including scarlet fever, meningitis or poliomyelitis; or, (3) He presents a certificate of recovery issued by the Department or a physician's written statement that he is free from disease in communicable form, if he was a case or carrier of any other disease reportable pursuant to 24 RCNY Health Code § 11.03. The statement shall indicate that he is free from disease in communicable form and that the period of isolation or exclusion required by 24 RCNY Health Code Article 11 has ended.
