Student Health Service

COVID-19 Student Health Info

Covid-19 Student Screening Guidelines

Prior to coming to campus, please ensure you have reviewed and completed the requirements in this screening guide:

1) In the past 6 weeks have you had: 

• Temperature ≥ 100.0˚F
• Chills
• Muscle pains
• Headache 
• Loss of taste or smell 
• Cough
• Shortness of breath
• Sore throat
• Fatigue
• Soft stool
• Stomach cramps
• Close contact with someone who was known or suspected to have COVID-19 (whether they were tested or not), including 48 hours prior to symptom development.  Close contact is defined as >15 minutes and a distance less than 6 feet.  
• Have you personally been suspected to have or received testing for COVID-19.
• Traveled from or through a high risk area domestically (higher risk than California, for example, New York, New Jersey, etc)? 
• Traveled internationally?

2) Do you have any of the following high risk conditions:

• Asthma or chronic lung disease
• Diabetes
• Immunocompromised due to cancer treatment, smoking, transplant recipient, immune deficiency, or use of immunosuppressive drug therapy
• Heart disease
• HIV
• Chronic kidney disease undergoing dialysis
• Liver disease
• BMI ≥40 or ≥35 plus obesity related health conditions
• Age ≥65
• Any other reason to believe you are at elevated risk due to underlying health conditions

If you answered “yes” to any question in 1 or 2 above, call student health at 909-558-8770 for next steps and to get clearance to begin academic activities or clinical rotations (this may include testing depending on timeline of symptoms or exposures).

Daily Self-Screening of Students and Faculty

Stay home if you have any of the following symptoms: 

• Temperature ≥ 100.0˚F
• Chills
• Muscle pains
• Headache 
• Loss of taste or smell 
• Cough
• Shortness of breath
• Sore throat
• Fatigue
• Soft stool
• Stomach cramps

You should follow algorithm for Return-to-Academic Activity/Clinical Rotation Criteria to determine when it is safe to reengage in these activities.

Stay home if you have: Close contact with someone who was known or suspected to have COVID-19 (whether they were tested or not), including 48 hours prior to symptom development.  Close contact is defined as >15 minutes and a distance less than 6 feet.  If this occurs, you must quarantine for 14 days and follow CDC criteria at: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/public-health-recommendations.html

Each day you will need to:

• Wear masks when in all public spaces or in spaces used by multiple people (cloth acceptable when in academic/non-clinical areas.  Surgical masks and/or other appropriate PPE for level of interaction when in clinical areas).
• Practice frequent and appropriate hand hygiene
• Practice physical distancing of at least 6 feet
• Utilize proper cough/sneeze etiquette
• Self-screen daily for symptoms and exposures

Assist with frequent disinfection of common and high traffic areas and surfaces

A Summary of ISSS Recommendations for incoming international travelers for Summer Quarter:

1. All LLU students who have traveled internationally within 30 days of their program or term start date should self-quarantine off-campus for a minimum of 14-days, though longer is desirable/preferable, before coming on the LLU campus. If a student intends to occupy student housing at Lindsay Hall or Daniels Hall, there may be some LIMITED quarantine options in those locations. Please call ahead to inquire with the dean of your respective residency hall. This applies to all new and returning students whether U.S. citizens or non-citizens.
2. International Students (meaning non-citizens on LLU-sponsored student visas) should inform the International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) (at intlstdsrv@llu.edu or phone 909-558-4955) of their arrival date in the U.S. as soon as their travel itinerary has finalized.
3. International travelers living on-campus in the residence halls should contact their facility dean and inform (or provide a copy of their flight itinerary) of their arrival date to the U.S. and plans to self-quarantine off-campus or inquire about availability of on-campus quarantine. 
4. International travelers should follow-up with LLU Student Health Services (at phone 909-558-8770) once their 14-day quarantine is completed to be cleared to be on the LLU campus.

Loma Linda University Student Health Service

24785 Stewart Street, Evans Hall, Suite 111
Loma Linda, CA 92354
Phone: 909-558-8770
Fax: 909-558-0433

Note: no TB/PPD skin tests given on Wednesday after 11:30 am or on Thursday.

*Clinic hours may vary during holidays