Indiana Administrative Code
Title 470 - DIVISION OF FAMILY RESOURCES
Article 3 - CHILD WELFARE SERVICES
Rule 4.7 - Child Care Centers; Licensing
Section 4.7-89 - Communicable disease

Universal Citation: 470 IN Admin Code 4.7-89

Current through September 18, 2024

Authority: IC 12-13-5-3

Affected: IC 12-17.2-4

Sec. 89.

(a) The center shall make every effort to control the spread of communicable diseases and shall establish written health policies and precautions directed to this end.

(b) Whenever exposure to disease has occurred in the child care center, control measures shall be implemented as follows:

(1) The disinfection of toilet facilities, furnishings, toys, or other articles that may have been used by a person with a communicable disease.

(2) The disposal of bodily discharge containing infectious material in a manner that would protect handlers from contact with the material.

(c) When any person working, volunteering, or attending the child care center is known to have a communicable disease, they shall be excluded from attendance at the child care center for such time as is prescribed by the person's physician or the local health officer.

(d) The center shall ascertain when the person is well enough to return to work.

(e) The center shall follow the Child Care Communicable Disease Chart, available from the division, for appropriate management of suspected illness.

(f) The center shall provide space to separate from the group, any child having or suspected of having a communicable disease or any illness as follows:

(1) This area shall not be used for any other purpose by the children while being used as isolation quarters.

(2) This area shall be heated and well ventilated.

(3) The area must have at least one (1) cot. The center must provide two (2) cots if the child care center is licensed for one hundred fifty (150) children or more and three (3) cots if the child care center is licensed for two hundred twenty-five (225) children or more.

(4) The cot, and all other furnishings in this area, must be easily sanitized.

(5) Caregivers shall maintain three (3) feet of space between cots.

(6) Children in this area shall at all times be directly supervised by an adult caregiver.

(7) Staff shall sanitize the area and all equipment in the area between uses.

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