About UHCS

The University Health and Counseling Services Team is anxious to serve you. We hope that you will use our center as a resource, to help stay healthy, physically and mentally, and for care when you are ill or injured, or depressed or stressed.

We work in the primary care model for medical care which means that you may choose a primary care clinician (physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant) who will be your regular clinician over the time you are at school. You may see this clinician for any problem and he or she may refer you within or outside the health center if additional evaluation is needed.

For behavioral health we have an array of counselors with different backgrounds who will help you assess your concerns and determine who may best help you resolve them. You may see a counselor for a short time in the health center or be referred to an outside therapist if appropriate.

Our medical team and our behavioral health team work together so that you get timely, comprehensive and high quality care. We believe in providing care promptly and are committed to seeing you within a week for any problem. We will assist you in getting immediate care for urgent or emergent needs.

We are open at 8 a.m. daily and remain open late two evenings each week and for part of the day Saturdays so that we can accommodate student schedules, including those on coop. We work with the New England Baptist Hospital nurses to provide after-hours advice and have close ties to many area hospitals.

We are committed to providing excellent service to you. We want your feedback so that we know what you think we do well and where you feel there are opportunities for us to improve.