The Granite School District Homebound/Hospital Program provides temporary home or in-hospital instruction to Granite School District students who are unable to attend school for an extended period of time (minimum three weeks) due to illness or injury.

Instructions to Parents/Guardians

If your child is ill or injured and you believe he/she is not able to attend school for an extended period of time (3+ weeks), please take the following steps:

1. Meet with a school representative (counselor, social worker, psychologist, or administrator) at your child’s school to inform them about your child’s situation.
2. The school representative will review the information you have provided with the school’s Student Support Team (administrators, counselors, social worker, psychologist, school nurse, teacher representatives).
3. The Student Support Team will discuss possible supports, interventions, and/or accommodations to help your child continue his/her education during the period of illness or injury.
4. A school representative will contact you with the Team’s plan of action to help your child.
5. If the plan of action is to refer to Homebound/Hospital, the school will provide you with the needed paperwork.
6. Once the paperwork is completed and returned to the school, they will forward it to the Homebound/Hospital Office and a teacher will be assigned to contact you and arrange for a time and place for instruction.
7. Homebound/Hospital teachers are allowed up to a maximum of two hours per week to instruct your child. They will assign work for your child to do during the week between visits.
8. For students requiring a long-term Homebound/Hospital placement (more than nine weeks), a renewed Physician’s Recommendation Form will be required at least every nine weeks.

Instructions to School Personnel

Please note: A note from a health-care professional recommending home/hospital is not a guarantee of that service. Your SST may decide that other interventions/accommodations may be more appropriate for the student. In that case, it is the responsibility of the SST to reach consensus with the health-care professional and the parent.

All Home/Hospital referrals must originate from the student’s school. When you become aware that a student might be in need of a Home/Hospital placement, please take the following steps:

1. Meet with the parent/guardian to review and sign the Student Support Form (pink sheet),
2. Review the “pink sheet” with your SST (Student Services Team) to get a team decision on what is the appropriate intervention/accommodation for the student.
3. If the SST decides that Home/Hospital is the appropriate placement for the student, complete the SST Home Hospital Recommendation Form and have it signed by SST stakeholders.
4. Assign an SST member to contact the parent/guardian to inform them of the SST decision.
5. Give the parent a Home/Hospital Physician’s Recommendation Form to be completed by the health-care professional and returned to you.
6. Have the parent/guardian sign the Parent Release of Information Form.
   
7. Send these completed forms to the Home/Hospital Office*:
   • A copy of the SST Home/Hospital Recommendation Form.
   • A copy of the Home/Hospital Physician’s Recommendation Form.
   • A copy of the Parent Release of Information.

Use this link to access the forms.

Please Note:  All Home/Hospital referrals for students with I.E.P.s must be reviewed and approved by a district special education coordinator before submitting the referral to Home/Hospital.