BASIC
FACTS ABOUT STUDENT HEALTH
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The mission of the University
of Delaware Student Health Service
is to provide students with quality primary health care and education about
healthy lifestyles.
The Student Health
Service (SHS) provides a full range of primary care, treatment, and
referral services, as well as related health education programs. All programs
and services are aimed at maintaining the physical and emotional well-being
of University
of Delaware students.
Location
The SHS is located in Laurel Hall, a free
standing ambulatory care center on the main campus south green area at the
intersection of South College
Avenue and East Park Place. This well equipped
facility provides medical treatment and office consultation space for a
variety of outpatient services, as well as an 8 bed inpatient (bed patient)
unit.
In addition to the
Laurel Hall facility, the SHS provides medical services in support of the
university athletic program in a sports medicine clinic located
in the Bob
Carpenter Center.
Staff
The SHS is staffed by practitioners, nurse
practitioners, nurses, technical and support staff - all well trained, fully
licensed professionals. The practitioner staff are
Board Certified or Board Eligible in specialty areas that include Adolescent
Medicine, Family Practice, Sports Medicine, Pediatrics and Gynecology. The
nurse staff includes nurse practitioners and ANA certified college health
nurses.
SHS practitioners serve
on the teaching faculty of the Christiana Care Health Services, Thomas Jefferson
University Medical
School and Alfred I.
duPont Hospital for Children. The affiliation
with the Christiana Care Health Services and Thomas Jefferson
University Medical
School includes
recognition of the Health Service as a primary teaching site for 2nd and 3rd
year Resident practitioners in Family Practice, Pediatrics, and
Medicine-Pediatrics as well as access to major group buying contracts and
continuing education of SHS staff.
Staff List
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