(Estherville)– A local college says it’s ready should the H1N1 virus show up on any of its campuses.
Delaine Hiney, Executive Director of Facilities Management at Iowa Lakes Community College, tells KUOO news several strategies are being implemented to try to curb any potential outbreak.
Hiney says informational fliers were distributed at the start of the college year to students and their parents; signs have been put on all of the college’s doors advising anyone exhibiting flue-like symptoms not to enter the buildings, but instead to go home and not come back until they’ve recovered.
To accomodate dormitory students should they contract H1N1, Hiney says they can go online or contact their resident advisor to order meals that will be delivered to them.
Health tip sheets have also been distributed to students.
Hiney says the college is using guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state public health officials. She says they’re also working closely with public health officials in each of the counties in which ILCC has campuses.
Hiney says they’re utilizing the Iowa Lakes Alert and Web site to directly communicate with students as needed.
