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Sports Health Care
Each venue will be staffed with Penn State Sport Camps Sports Health Care personnel on duty throughout the entirety of Happy Volley. Initial injury/illness assessment and management services, including first aid and emergency medical care, will be provided. Sports Health Care personnel refer camp participants with urgent medical problems to the Emergency/Outpatient Department of Mount Nittany Medical Center. Sports Health Care personnel will also provide professional recommendations concerning referrals for any injury or illness that may require advanced medical management. A parent/legal guardian must sign the Consent for Treatment form to grant permission for any medical attention needed during the camp.
Sports Health Care personnel will NOT transport injured/ill camp participants to and from the Mount Nittany Medical Center Emergency Department.
Taping
Sports Health Care personnel will not provide prophylactic taping or wrapping. If taping or wrapping is necessary for a pre-existing injury, a note from a parent/legal guardian and/or physician is required.
Medical Fees and Insurance
The University provides accident and illness medical insurance designed to respond on a "primary" basis with no deductible, as part of the program at no additional charge. This coverage provides up to $5,000 in benefits in the event a camper sustains an injury requiring treatment or hospitalization, up to $500 in dental benefits, and up to $1,000 in benefits for illness, after which the family's medical insurance must be used. The insurance provided will cover only an injury or illness resulting from activity which occurred while the camper was participating in Sport Camps activities at Penn State. Parents/Legal guardians will be responsible for medical bills for a camper with a pre-existing medical condition or illness.
Medications
Penn State Sport Camps staff will NOT dispense medications of any type (prescription or over-the-counter) to camp participants of any age but may assist in the administration of certain medications and with written consent of the parent(s)/legal guardian(s) and/or physician's orders for medical emergencies. Penn State Sport Camps requires your consent for the Sports Health Care staff to assist in the administration of medication to your child, if necessary.
Please be advised that Penn State Sport Camps staff will NOT handle or assist in the administration of medications categorized as narcotics and controlled substances. Furthermore, Penn State Sport Camps staff will NOT purchase medications of any type (prescription or over-the-counter) for camp participants of any age. Sport Camps staff will NOT transport campers to a store to purchase OTC medications. The parent(s)/legal guardian(s) of camp participants are required to disclose their intention to bring medications to Sport Camps, especially to treat potentially life-threatening conditions (i.e. inhalers, EPI-pens, insulin injections) by completing the Consent for Treatment form.
Each participant must complete and submit a Happy Volley Club Championships and Camp Consent for Treatment form signed by a parent/legal guardian before the event begins. Sports Health Care personnel will NOT be held responsible for housing/storing medication(s).
HAPPY VOLLEY CONSENT FOR TREATMENT FORM: Click Here
Head Injury
Penn State Sport Camps staff will manage head injuries, including suspected concussions, conservatively using the `ABC' (A-Assess the situation, B-Be alert for signs and symptoms, C-Contact a health care professional) recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This includes immediate removal of a camp participant from play upon sustaining a head injury and using appropriate field clinical techniques to screen a camp participant for typical signs and symptoms associated with a concussion. Upon presenting with any associated signs and symptoms of a concussion, the Sports Health Care staff will remove the participant from activity and notify the parent/legal guardian/coach.
Penn State Sports Camps adheres to the notion that a licensed physician with training in managing traumatic brain injury will make the final recommendations and decision regarding returning a camp participant to play after a head injury with suspected concussion. Thus, Sports Health Care personnel will NOT make such decisions. Activity progressions following a concussion will not be implemented or supervised at sport camps.
Penn State Sport Camps advocates that parents/legal guardians, coaches/administrators and camp participants alike review the CDC `Heads Up' concussion training online tutorial at https://www.cdc.gov/headsup/youthsports/training/index.html BEFORE attending related events on campus. Sport Camps also mandates that parents/legal guardians, coaches/administrators and camp participants review the corresponding `Heads Up' fact sheet for parents, coaches and athletes (camp participants) respectively.
Heads Up Fact Sheets
- For Parents: Click Here!
- For Coaches: Click Here!
- For Athletes: Click Here!
Accordingly, endorsing the Sport Camps Consent for Treatment form affirms that parents/legal guardians and/or coaches/administrators have reviewed the `Heads Up' fact sheet for athletes with camp participants BEFORE attending related events on campus.