Health Services
Our health team is committed to the health and wellness of our students. Our mission at The Bear Creek School is to promote student health and wellness in a safe, supportive, and faith-centered environment that will enable each student to become the individual that God intends.
Bear Creek's team of registered nurses provides professional nursing care to students and the school community. The school nurse’s role includes:
- Promoting health and safety
- Assessing student health status and initiating referrals
- Delivering emergency care
- Administering medications
- Identifying vision and hearing problems that impact learning
- Disaster preparedness
- Performing educational training for school employees
- Providing health and wellness programs
- Creating individual health care plans for students with health care needs
- Collaborating with families, communities, and school employees
There are dedicated health rooms in each location including two at Redmond Campus in the Main building and Upper School, plus one at Valley Campus. A school nurse is assigned full-time at Redmond Campus and part-time with on-call availability at Valley Campus.
Please contact Health Services Manager Lea Hysom, RN, BSN at lea.hysom@tbcs.org or 425-898-1720 ext. 399 with any questions you may have.
Health, Wellness, and Safety Policies
See section 4 of the Family Handbook (log in my MyBC/Parents) for all our school health, wellness, and safety policies. All student health information and related authorizations and forms should be submitted and uploaded to the health portal.
Illness Policies
Immunizations
Immunization Requirement
Washington State law (RCW 28A.210.080) requires that all children enrolled at a public or private school must have documentation of the required immunizations or an exemption in order to attend school, preschool, or childcare, including those attending an alternative school program such as Running Start, vocational technical school, or virtual school. The immunization records must be on file at the school on or before the first day of attendance.
On or before the first day of attendance, all new students and all returning preschool, kindergarten, and grade 7 students must upload medically verified immunization records to the health portal by the summer deadline. Children cannot attend school until these records are provided. (New parents will receive instructions for submitting immunization records in the health portal with Back-to-School Registration in July. We cannot accept any forms that have been mailed, emailed, or dropped off.)
A medically verified Certificate of Immunization Status (CIS) form is a:
- CIS printed by a health care provider from the Washington State Immunization Information System (IIS). This is medically verified by the Immunization Information System.
- CIS printed from MyIR which is a free Department of Health online tool that allows families to view and print their official immunization records themselves. This is medically verified by the Immunization Information System. You can access your child’s immunization record at any time by signing up for MyIR at wa.MyIR.net.
- CIS completed by hand.
- Must be verified with a health care provider signature
or - Must have medical vaccination records attached so it can be verified for accuracy by school staff
- Must be verified with a health care provider signature
If your child is on a delayed schedule, also have your child's health care provider complete and sign the Certificate of Exemption. See Health Services for more information or contact Lea Hysom, school nurse, at lea.hysom@tbcs.org if you have any questions about your child's immunization records.
Note: The COVID-19 vaccination is not required for students to attend school. However, if your student is vaccinated for COVID-19, please complete the optional COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card requirement (ages 5 and up) by uploading your child's completed COVID-19 vaccine card or medically verified CIS containing the COVID-19 vaccine dose dates.
Immunization Forms
Immunization records must be uploaded to Bear Creek's health portal. Do not mail, email, or drop off at school. Thank you!
Health Alerts
Faculty, staff, and parents may subscribe to Health Alerts (requires login). See how-to documentation on signing up for text alerts.