Counseling & Health Services
Health Services
Our staff provides primary and acute care to all Salem State College students. Our goal is to help our students achieve and maintain optimum physical and emotional health by providing high quality, accessible and affordable health care offering primary medical care, consultation on health-related issues, health promotion programs, and referrals and collaboration with area providers. Most services are available free of charge, although certain diagnostic tests are billed to your health insurance.
Staff
We are staffed by two full-time nurse practitioners, a part-time internal medicine physician, a full-time registered nurse, and an administrative assistant.
Services
- Routine & Sports Physicals
- Women's Health
PAP Smears (by appointment only)
- Diagnosis & Treatment of Minor Illnesses
- Routine Lab Testing
Costs [PDF 7KB]
- Contraception
Costs [PDF 7KB]
- Immunizations
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Location
Counseling & Health Services
Suite 107, Ellison Campus Center
North Campus
978-542-6413
978-542-7121 (fax)
Hours
Monday, Wednesday & Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm; Urgent Care Walk In 8:30am – 4:30pm
Tuesday & Thursday: 8:00am - 6:00pm; Urgent Care Walk In 8:30am – 5:30pm
During summer and college breaks: Monday - Friday: 8:30am - 4:30pm; call for walk-in hours.
All students are seen on a walk-in basis with the exception of routine physicals and annual women's health exams (PAP smears). Please call 978-542-6413 to schedule an appointment.
After hours, weekends & holidays
- We do NOT provide services after hours & holidays.
- If you are having a medical emergency, call Public Safety at x6111.
- If you are off-campus, dial 911.
- If your medical problem can't wait, call your primary care provider or go to a walk-in clinic.
Local Medical Emergency Centers
North Shore Medical Center/Salem Hospital
81 Highland Ave. (Rte. 129), Salem
978-741-1215
Open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
Directions from SSC: From intersection at Eastern Bank, take Jefferson Ave for 8/10 mile. Turn left into North Shore Medical & Rehab Center and follow signs to hospital.
Immunizations
Massachusetts law requires full-time students, full-time and part-time health science students, and all international students to be immunized against measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, and hepatitis B. Documentation confirming the immunizations must be submitted before enrollment. There are other vaccines you may want to receive such as varicella (chicken pox), hepatitis A, and influenza.
Meningococcal Meningitis Vaccine:
Accepted students living in the residence halls are required by Massachusetts state law to receive the meningococcal meningitis vaccine. The vaccine is usually available through your primary care provider office or the local public health department. Students may choose not to receive the vaccine by signing and returning the waiver to Health Services before September 12, 2007.
Student Health Insurance
Each student registered for 9 or more credits is required by state law to be enrolled in a health insurance plan. You need to indicate by an annual deadline whether you are already covered, or whether you will need to enroll in the student health insurance program.
Confidentiality
All medical visits to health services and conversations with staff are confidential, unless you have specifically given your consent for us to share information with a particular person. Parents, friends, faculty and other college staff do not have access to information about your care without your permission. [read more]
There are limited exceptions:
- Certain communicable diseases must be reported to the public health department
- If in our judgement, you are at risk of seriously harming yourself or others
- If current child or elder abuse is involved
- Under rare circumstances, if a court of law orders that we provide information
Requesting a copy of your health record
You can request a copy of your medical record by downloading and printing the Authorization for Disclosure Form [PDF 22KB] The form must be completed, signed and either mailed or faxed to our office. No emails please.
Consultations
Health Services staff is available to students, faculty, and administrators for consultations on health related issues. In any consultation, the confidentiality of our student patient is always preserved, as appropriate and required by law.
Health Related Links
While we believe you will find interesting and valuable material within the listed web health related links pages, please note that the information, views, or opinions contained within these websites are strictly those of their authors. [Links page]
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