Health and Safety
We are committed to providing the highest level of healthcare for our campers and staff while they are at camp.
Medical Care
While we take safety very seriously, there is always a risk of injury or illness while at camp. We also realize that many campers come to camp with pre-existing medical conditions that need some attention and care.
The healthcare team includes nurses and college-age healthcare assistants. In addition, a doctor is typically at the Lake location to see to camper and staff needs. Due to the closer proximity to medical care, we do not staff doctors at our SoCal or New England campuses.
We have fully stocked Health Centers in our camps which are furnished with equipment, supplies, and medications that allow us the ability to treat a wide range of illnesses and injuries as they occur. There are Automatic External Defibrillators (AED’s), first aid kits, and rescue equipment available throughout every Hume location. At the direction of our medical staff, we can decide to transport a patient to a nearby hospital or urgent care or request a helicopter evacuation.
Should your camper become ill while at camp or sustain an injury, they will be instructed to tell their counselor and have them go with them to the Health Center for assistance. We will contact you according to our Parent Call Policy.
Steps to a Healthy Camp Experience
- Discuss health and safety with your camper before sending them to camp to help set them up for success. You may find this page helpful in prompting these discussions: Healthy Camp Begins at Home.
- Please input all known medical conditions when you register your camper online. Our Health Center team will reach out to you if further information or documentation is needed.
- Enter ALL your camper’s medications into our system as you register them for camp.
- Send all medications according to the instructions below:
- Send ALL prescription and over-the-counter medications in the original packaging with only the medication identified on the container inside. We recommend that you send only the amount of medication your camper will need for their time at camp and keep the rest at home. Do not put medications in generic or unlabeled pill containers or organizers.
- Make sure all prescription labels are legible with your camper’s name on it. Make sure the prescription label is up to date with the most current prescription information. Medications will be given per written prescription.
- Check expiration date. Expired medication will not be administered.
- Please leave any non-essential medications at home. Standing in line for meds during mealtime is not a camper’s favorite thing to do, so if it’s not essential, your camper will thank you!
Medications at Camp
Please leave any non-essential medications at home. Standing in line for meds during mealtime is not a camper’s favorite thing to do, so if it’s not essential, your camper will thank you!
We keep a comprehensive stock of over the counter (OTC) medications in our Health Center. Feel free to leave standard OTC meds at home. If you believe your camper benefits by using their own OTC medications, you may add these to the medication list and bring the medication in the original bottle to camp.
If your camper comes to the health center with a concern, they will be evaluated by our camp nurses and/or doctor. If they require a medication that is not available in the Health Center, the nurse or doctor will discuss options with the parents/guardians of the camper.
- For church/school groups, turn medications into the designated leader. Please follow all instructions above on how to send medications. The Health Center staff will visit the group leader at Registration as part of the “check-in” process to verify the medications, dosages and go over any specific instructions from you.
- For individual campers, as part of the check-in process, you will come visit with the healthcare staff and “check-in” your campers’ medication at registration.
- Due to the already large number of medicines tracked and given out during the week, we only want to check-in and administer vitamins that are essential for your camper to take while at camp. Please make sure vitamins come with a prescription from a licensed provider or written instructions from you. They need to come in their original container.
- To ensure your campers safety, we must have an order signed by a licensed provider (MD, DO, NP or PA) to administer essential oils and/or dietary supplements. The order must include when and how much to give.
We play hard at camp, so most of the time campers don’t have trouble sleeping. However, if you prefer your child be given Melatonin, please bring it and put it on their medication list. If your camper takes a higher than usual dose, please have your physician write us an order.
Like essential oils, we do not administer Cannabidiol (CBD) products to campers without an order from a licensed prescribing practitioner.
- Our Health Center staff will administer all medications, prescribed and OTC, while your camper is at camp. Scheduled medications are generally given around mealtimes and at bedtime. As needed medications will be given when a camper sees the Health Center staff for evaluation. Health Center staff collaborate with campers and counselors to ensure they receive their scheduled medications, but it helps if you tell your camper before they leave what meds (if any) they should expect to be taking, so they’re aware.
- Medication doses will be administered per physician order or written instruction from you.
- On the last day of camp, you can pick up your meds from the healthcare staff at the medication station in the camp your child attended before or after picking up your camper. Please don’t forget! Medications cannot be mailed back to you. If your child has a rescue medication kept by the counselor (EpiPen, diabetic supplies/medications or rescue inhaler), it is your responsibility to obtain these from your child’s counselor when you pick up your child from camp.
- Church/school medications will be given back during the last meal before departure.
Communicable Diseases
As we have limited isolation space and healthcare staff, we ask that you have a workable plan in place to be able to pick up your child from camp if requested by the Health Center staff.
It is Hume’s expectation that registered guests and staff should arrive with no symptoms of communicable or infectious disease (i.e., temperature over 100.3, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea). Should such a contagious illness present before arrival, please reach out to discuss a plan with the Health Center staff. This may include a delayed or canceled camp arrival.
Hume Christian Camps reserves the right to send home a person who arrives with or develops an infectious disease while at camp posing a risk to others.
As-Needed Medications
We keep a comprehensive stock of over the counter (OTC) medications in our Health Center. Feel free to leave standard OTC meds at home. If you believe your camper benefits by using their own OTC medications, you may add these to the medication list and bring the medication in the original bottle to camp.
If your camper comes to the health center with a concern and requires a medication that is not available in the Health Center, the nurse or doctor will discuss options with you.
Nasal Decongestant Spray (Afrin) |
Flonase Nasal Spray |
Saline Sinus Rinse |
Benadryl 12.5mg Liquid |
Benadryl PO 25mg |
Benedryl Chilren’s Chewable |
Dye-Free Benadryl Suspension |
Cetirizine Children’s (Zyrtec) |
Cetirizine 10mg |
Fexofenadine Hcl Children’s Dissolvable (Allegra) |
Fexofenadine Hcl (Allegra)180mg |
Loratadine Children’s (Claritin) |
Loratadine (Claritin)10mg |
Acetaminophen Children’s Chewable |
Acetaminophen Liquid Child/Infant 160mg/5ml |
Acetaminophen 325 mg |
Acetaminophen 500 mg |
Aspirin 81mg Chewable |
Excedrin Migraine |
Ibuprofen Children’s Chewable |
Ibuprofen Children’s Liquid 100mg/5ml |
Ibuprofen Infant 50mg/1.25mL |
Ibuprofen 200mg |
Icy Hot Cream |
Icy Hot Patch |
Lidocaine Patch |
Naproxen (Alleve) |
Phenylephrine 10mg |
Guifenesin |
Cough Decongestant Adult (Acet 325, Guaif 200, Dextr 15, Phen 5) |
“Dayquil” |
“Nyquil” |
Sudafed |
Robitussin DM Adult |
Chloraseptic spray |
Cough Medicine Children’s (Delsym) |
Sudafed Children’s 2.5mg/5mL |
Robitussin DM Children’s |
Mucinex Children |
Allergy eye drops (Zaditor) | |||
Eye Wash | |||
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Diaper Rash Cream |
Preparation H cream |
Hemorrhoid ointment |
Monistat 1 Day 1200mg |
Monistat 3 Day |
Clotrimazole antifungal |
Hydrocortisone Cream Tube |
Hyrdrocortisone cream 1% packets |
Bacitracin tube |
Calcium Carbonate (Tums) |
Simethicon |
Mylanta/Maalox |
Famotidine or Pantoprazole |
Kaopectate |
Lactaid |
Loperamide |
Biscadyl PO 5mg |
Ducosate Sodium (Colace) 100 mg PO |
Sting Relief |
Tecnu Scrub |
Burn Gel |
Bactine |
Bacitracin packets |
Lice Shampoo |
Solarcaine |
Calamine lotion |
Vaseline |
