BOARD OF HEALTH MINUTES
Meeting held at Nashoba Regional School District Superintendent’s office on Monday, September 21, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Present: Michael Wood, Pat Trahman, Bill Spratt, Jim Garreffi, Representatives from the Stow Board of Health, Bolton Board of Health and Lancaster Board of Health
Michael Wood, Superintendent of the Nashoba Regional School District introduced Pat Trahman, the Coordinator, Health, Wellness and Guidance.
The group discussed communication between the school and the Boards. Mr. Wood said that everyone should be checking the District website for information. The group discussed that many parents just go to the home page for their child’s school and not necessarily the District homepage where all the information is posted.
With regard to the communication of the reporting of the H1N1 case in the District, Jim Garreffi said that there was a breakdown in communication. The group expressed concerns about putting the information out via ConnectEd but then not following up. The Bolton Boards of Health was concerned that the message to all reported that the District was “working” with the local Boards of Health but they were not informed prior to the sending of the message. After a brief discussion the group resolved that communication needs to flow to the appropriate channels.
When discussing the H1N1 clinics, everyone was in agreement with the following:
- try to get one school to set up clinic
- pick a school location proposed time 3:30 pm-7:30 pm
- Nashoba has applied for the vaccine for each town
- Nashoba will setup the clinic in each town
- Vaccine will come with supplies
- Nashoba nurses will vaccinate
- The vaccination is voluntary so they don’t have to have it
Pat Trahman is the go to person for the school to setup clinics.
Stow Board of Health likes the 3:30 pm and a few Saturdays for their clinic schedule. They would like to setup their clinics all at the Hale School.
Michael Woods said he hopes that businesses get the message. Mr. Wood explained that the schools are following CDC guidelines for education and offense against the flu classroom cleanup
Chris Rogers asked about hygiene. Bill Spratt explained that the schools that there is a grant for wall sanitizers. Bill explained that currently the custodians use hospital grade disinfectant on all surfaces. Bill noted that they also disinfect the cafeteria between lunches.
Jim Garreffi explained that the expectation is that 25% of the population will be vaccinated.
In terms of Communication of the clinics- the school will put a notice out about the flu clinics.
The school will also send a ConnectEd message with the information and encourage everyone to check the web page.
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