COVID-19 Updates

Testing with PMH Laboratory, Inc. on Campus

• • Enter client number 1733
  • Under COVID test type select "PCR"
  • Under Consent to Test select "PCR"
  • Please upload a copy of your daughter’s health insurance card. There are also options for those without insurance.
• Schedule your daughter’s test appointment online.
• Read and sign the Parent/Guardian Consent Form [PDF] and send it to the Health Office with your daughter or email it to Nurse Cota.
• Complete the COVID-19 Patient Test Request Form [PDF] (highlighted sections only) and send it to the Health Office with your daughter or email it to Nurse Cota. The test type and the test source in the highlighted section at the bottom have already been completed for you. 

Results

• Results will be emailed to the email address you provide on the testing form within 24-48 hours. Please make sure to print your email address legibly.  If you have not received your results within 72 hours, please call PMH lab at 562-592-2890.

Guidelines and Protocols

• Testing will be offered to vaccinated students, employees as resources allow.
• Unvaccinated students and employees who decline this testing can PCR test the previous weekend providing the Health Office their results by Tuesday.
• Employees will be offered testing at no cost during paid time:
  • if they have symptoms of COVID-19
  • after an exposure
  • in an outbreak on campus
• Individuals who are symptomatic or have a known or suspected exposure to another individual with COVID-19 may arrange testing through L.A. County or LHI Care.

• COVID-19 vaccination is strongly recommended for all eligible students, employees.


• The School Nurse will maintain copies of all COVID-19 vaccination cards and vaccine status to inform implementation of prevention strategies that vary by vaccination status (testing, contact tracing efforts, and quarantine and isolation practices).

• Individuals are not to come to campus if sick or if they are unvaccinated and have been exposed to a person who has COVID-19.
• Symptom screening worksheet reviewed at home asks if individuals have symptoms of COVID 19: fever or chills, new loss of taste or smell, cough, headache, shortness of breath/difficulty breathing, sore throat, fatigue, nausea, diarrhea or vomiting, muscle or body aches, runny or stuffy nose and if unvaccinated, if they have had exposure in the last 10 days to a person who has COVID-19. 
• By coming to campus, students and employees attest they have reviewed the symptom screening worksheet and have no symptoms of illness.

• Masks completely covering the mouth and nose are required indoors for everyone on campus, with exemptions only per CDPH face mask guidance.
• Masks do not need to be worn outside.
• School maintains a supply of masks for those who fail to bring a mask to school.
• Bandanas, scarves, gators and one-way valves are not allowed. 

• Persons with a medical condition, mental health condition, or disability that prevents wearing a mask. This includes persons with a medical condition for whom wearing a mask could obstruct breathing or who are unconscious, incapacitated, or otherwise unable to remove a mask without assistance.
• Persons who are hearing impaired, or communicating with a person who is hearing impaired, where the ability to see the mouth is essential for communication.
• Persons for whom wearing a mask would create a risk to the person related to their work, as determined by local, state, or federal regulators or workplace safety guidelines.
• Persons younger than two years old. Very young children must not wear a mask because of the risk of suffocation.
• Persons exempted from wearing a mask due to a medical condition, must wear a non-restrictive alternative, such as a face shield with a drape on the bottom edge tucked into their clothing.
• To be exempt from wearing a mask, students must submit an "exemption from Face Mask" form completed and signed by their physician.
• Alternative educational opportunities for students who cannot wear a mask will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. 

• Classes are held in the largest classroom possible.
• Club meetings will be held in appropriately sized rooms.
• Community gatherings will be held in the gym.

• Doors and windows remain open as conditions permit.
• Direct fans above the heads of individuals.

• Facility crew members perform daily cleaning of all areas and frequently touched surfaces.
• Facility crew members will clean AND disinfect spaces that have been occupied by a COVID-19 positive individual within the last 24 hours using a disinfectant in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency COVID-19 list.
  • If less than 24 hours have passed since the person who is sick or diagnosed with COVID-19 has been in the space, clean and disinfect the space.
  • If more than 24 hours have passed since the person who is sick or diagnosed with COVID-19 has been in the space, cleaning is enough. You may choose to also disinfect depending on certain conditions or everyday practices required by your facility.
  • If more than 3 days have passed since the person who is sick or diagnosed with COVID-19 has been in the space, no additional cleaning (beyond regular cleaning practices) is needed.

• Individuals are taught and reinforced to wash hands or use hand sanitizer, avoid contact with one's eyes, nose, and mouth, and to cover coughs and sneezes.
• Hand hygiene is promoted throughout the day.
• Restrooms are stocked with adequate supplies of soap, tissues and no-touch trash cans.
• Hand sanitizer with at least 60 percent ethyl alcohol is in all classrooms, offices and high traffic areas.

• The School Nurse acts as the COVID-19 Liaison and reports positive cases and performs contact tracing per the local public health department guidelines and per AB 86 (2021) and California Code Title 17, section 2500.
• Quarantine and isolation practices are determined by the local public health departments Exposure Management Plan.
• The School Nurse will consult with and follow the guidance of the Pasadena Public Health Department regarding who is considered a close contact and who needs to quarantine.
• Students in quarantine will be able to participate in class via a hybrid model.

• All individuals will eat outdoors physically distanced.
  • On rainy days:
    • Students may eat in the gym, and depending on the number of available chairs, in the Commons and the Sussex Room. 
    • Windows/doors should stay open with fans and/or air purifiers running.
    • Students MUST clean up after themselves.
    • Students may take off their mask only if they are actively eating. Once done, they must place their mask back on.
    • Pike and the Library are off limits for eating.
    • If a teacher is present in a classroom and gives permission to eat there, students may do so. 
    • Empty classrooms without a teacher are off limits.

• Surfaces will be cleaned frequently.
• There is no need to limit food service approaches to single use items and packaged meals.

• Please make every effort to arrive early (7:30-7:45 a.m.) for morning drop-off, and do not arrive too early at pick-up time (no earlier than 5-10 minutes after the end of the school day). Vehicles are not permitted to wait in the middle of Bellefontaine Street with their engines off.
• During peak times, a Mayfield Senior School traffic attendant will be posted at the fork in the driveway. Wait for directions from the attendant before beginning a left turn or entering the gate on a right turn. (This includes the early morning and late afternoon Athletics and Conservatory drop-off and pick-up times.)
• Dropping off or picking up students on Bellefontaine Street or Grand Avenue is NOT permitted. ALL DRIVERS MUST ENTER CAMPUS TO PICK UP OR DROP OFF.
• All cars entering campus during peak drop-off and pick-up times must approach from Grand Avenue and make a right turn into campus. Left turns into campus will not be permitted during peak pick-up time. (This includes the early morning and late afternoon Athletics and Conservatory drop-off and pick-up times.)
• Please do not make a u-turn in the middle of Bellefontaine or at the Grand Avenue intersection or in the street to join the queue line.
• Cars enter the campus via the Bellefontaine Street gate only and exit by the Grand Avenue gate. All cars must make a full stop at the gym for pedestrians as well as inside the lower gate on Grand Avenue before proceeding across the sidewalk.
  Students should not be picked up or dropped off in front of the gym. Cars must pull into the Senior Parking lot.
• Please note that parking on the street in front of the school is restricted when school is in session. The City of Pasadena has placed no parking signs to facilitate the drop off and pick up queue.
• Please do not block or pull into neighbor driveways.  

• Nonessential visitors and volunteers, and activities involving external groups or organizations with people who are not fully vaccinated, particularly when there is moderate-to-high COVID-19 community transmission, are limited. 

• Notification of a full or partial school closure due to a possible cluster of cases will be communicated to families and employees through the school’s emergency notification system using both text and email.
• Classes will be continued remotely.