Student Health FAQs
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
The Student Health Center does not require health insurance. All registered students can seen by providers regardless of health insurance status.
For your $19 per semester health fee (Fall/Spring) and $16 (Summer/Winter)*, as part of your registration fees, you have the opportunity to utilize various services here on campus. The following is a partial list of what is available:
- First-aid
- Free over-the-counter medications
- Free condoms and feminine hygiene products
- Free monthly HIV screening
- Low-cost STD testing and treatment
- Medical Services, including illness assessment and treatment
- Free personal counseling by a psychologist
- Access to low cost medications, immunizations and lab testing
- Health education events
- Disease prevention and wellness
- Low-cost Tuberculosis skin testing
All medical and personal counseling records are kept confidential, with constraints, and are not part of the student's academic record. Information may not be released without the student's written consent (Link here to Student Health Services Privacy Act). Information shared in counseling sessions may be discussed amongst providers for consultation but will not be discussed outside the Student Health Center.
Any student enrolled in the current semester can utilize services at the Student Health Center.
Appointments are recommended, walk-ins always welcome to see providers.
Yes, several plans are available in the Health Center waiting room. Or you can go to the Health Insurance page for on-line access to a variety of insurance vendors.
Unless it is an emergency, care for acute medical problems such as an upper respiratory infection or a tuberculosis skin test requires a parental consent. You can download the Patient General Consent and have your parent sign in the appropriate space. If a minor needs medical attention for a sexually transmitted disease, contraception and/or urinary tract infection, a parent's consent is not needed.
*Fees effective Fall 2020.