The HOOS Health Check app is now available in the Apple and Google Play stores. This easy-to-use tool will help members of the UVA community remain aware of their health and identify any possible COVID symptoms before they come to Grounds. HOOS Health Check will replace daily health attestations that UVA Health team members, researchers, and some other groups on Grounds have used this summer.
Students, faculty, staff, and UVA Health team members are required to complete a daily health check each day that they are coming to Grounds or to work at a UVA Health clinic through the free HOOS Health Check app or the HOOS Health Check website. Anyone with symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should stay home and immediately contact Student Health (for students) or Employee Health (for faculty, staff, and UVA Health team members), as directed by HOOS Health Check.
More details are available in FAQs on the Return to Grounds and Students on Grounds websites. Visit the ITS website to troubleshoot technical issues and learn more about the terms of use and privacy policy.
Yes, all students, faculty, and staff must complete a wellness attestation every day before coming to Grounds. The attestation procedure and app will be released in coming weeks.
No, faculty and students will be asked to use the Hoos Health Check app/website. It will be inappropriate for any faculty member to require or request that students check their temperature with a thermometer before entering a classroom.
We do not recommend requiring students to show their app before entering the lab. This will be considered a privacy violation. However, reminding students to complete their daily attestation via the Hoos Health check app prior to entering the lab is appropriate.
If at any point you begin to feel ill, please call Employee Health [434-924-2013] immediately. If you are home, do not come on Grounds; if you are on Grounds, please return home.
If you have been diagnosed as infected or exposed to someone with COVID-19, please call Employee Health [434-924-2013] . You must stay home for at least 10 days (for isolation if ill) or 14 days (quarantine if exposed), and as per University guidance found on the Return to Grounds website. Please let your department chair or immediate supervisor know that you must quarantine. If you are well, asymptomatic, or have very mild symptoms and you feel able to work, talk with your department chair about the possibility of working from home. They can give you guidance about teaching your course on-line or making alternative arrangements during your quarantine.
Employee Health has developed a printable one-pager outlining these steps and some other helpful suggestions.
Please ask them to stay home and contact Student Health, [434-924-5362; 434-297-4261 After Hours]. If they hesitate, kindly remind than that they agreed to do so in the social contract that they signed.
If a student tells you that they have to quarantine:
Let them know what to expect in terms of participation in your course
They may transition from in-person to on-line participation during their quarantine if they are well enough to do so.
Please make accommodations for the student as you would in any other circumstance when a student is ill.
If a student discloses to you that they have been diagnosed with the virus:
Offer support to the student
Remind the student to contact Student Health [434-924-5362; 434-297-4261 After Hours]. (Since not all tests will be administered through Student Health, it is important for students to contact Student Health if they receive a positive test result from another source)
Notify the Office of the Dean of Students [434-924-7133]. They will ensure that the student gets support and that the appropriate offices are notified.
Outside of our normal guidelines on class attendance, the College does not mandate that instructors follow