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Chittenden County Child Care Providers & Conflict Implementing Sick Child Guidelines
Foroutan, Shahin Gell, Joanna Hsu, Hui-Shan Simon, Elena V. Smith, Justin Threlkeld, Kirsten Weinberg, Nicholas Flanders, Meghan Sullivan, Jillian
Foroutan, Shahin
Gell, Joanna
Hsu, Hui-Shan
Simon, Elena V.
Smith, Justin
Threlkeld, Kirsten
Weinberg, Nicholas
Flanders, Meghan
Sullivan, Jillian
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Introduction: Nationwide, 61% of children under age five are enrolled in a form of non-parental care. Problems arise when a child becomes sick and is not able toattend daycare or has to be sent home. Parents must either miss work to care for their child or find someone else to care for them. Since there is stress surrounding taking time off, and because the criteria used to exclude children from child care can be ambiguous, parents may feel that their child doesn’t need to be sent home. Each child care provider has to set up exclusion criteria that meet state licensing requirements. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) developed exclusion guidelines specifically for childcare settings in 2006, but most daycare providers and pediatricians are unaware of its existence. Conflicts occur when there are differences in opinion on the child’s health status between the child care provider and the parents or the child’s pediatrician.
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2008-01-21