Health Services
At Home COVID Tests
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Please contact your students' school if you need free home Covid tests. Students can bring them home in their backpacks, you may also stop by and pick some up. If your student is ill they do need a negative home Covid test to return. We have new Binax home test kits to give out that are good through June 13, 2023. We will let you know if the expiration dates are extended.
Please review the following links for detailed information regarding the respiratory illness we are fighting
COVID-19 -- individuals should consider home testing, isolate for at least 5 days with a positive test, and may return with masking depending on severity of illness. When to Leave Isolation.
Influenza – individuals should stay home until 24 hours after fever resolves without the use of fever-reducing medications. Fact Sheet.
Pertussis – individuals should stay home until they have completed 5 days of antibiotics. Fact Sheet.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV) -- individuals with RSV are usually contagious 3 to 8 days. Most RSV infections go away on their own in a week or two. Fact Sheet.
Colds – there is no standardized recommendation for returning during/after a cold. Individuals with colds are typically infectious for 4-7 days after symptoms begin.
Please call your student's school if they will be absent for illness. The nursing team can help answer any questions you may have about masking and returning.
WPS Nursing Team
Required Immunizations
Click here for Maine School Immunization Requirements
Our Health Team
Dear Parents/Guardians and Staff,
The nursing team in Waterville is working and available if you have questions -please feel free to reach out via email.
Melanie Veilleux RN - Team Leader for Nursing Department - Albert s. Hall School - melaniev@aos92.org
Donna Jordan RN George J. Mitchell School - djordan@aos92.org
Jessica Maguire RN - Waterville Jr. High - jmaguire@aos92.org
Jean Cote RN - Waterville Sr. High School - jcote@aos92.org
Information from the Waterville Public Schools
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Covid testing is still required this year if your student has cold-like symptoms or is not feeling well, or has been exposed to someone with Covid. Please contact your students' school if you need free home Covid tests. Students can bring them home in their backpacks, you may also stop by and pick some up. If your student is ill they do need a negative home Covid test to return. We have Binax home test kits to give out that are good through Jan 13, 2024. Expiration dates were extended. We will let you know if the expiration dates are extended again. Please let the office know or the school nurse if you tested your student and they were negative -or if they had a positive test and are staying home for the required number of days.The school nurse can help you determine the quarantine time. Covering coughs and good hand hygiene (using hand sanitizer, washing hands) will always be required to protect everyone at school. If your student can not or will not cover their cough they may be asked to wear a mask during this illness to decrease the spread of germs.
Please contact your student's school nurse if you have questions.