253.535.7337
www.plu.edu/health
The Student Health Center, “caring, convenient, confidential,” is
staffed full time by two physician assistants. Also available weekly
are a consulting physician, a psychiatric physician assistant, and a
nurse practitioner.
Services provided include acute care for illness and injury,
physical exams for sports, travel, employment and reproductive health,
birth control, STD information and testing, chronic disease monitoring,
consultations for travel, smoking cessation, substance abuse and eating
disorders. Also offered are immunizations, allergy shots, laboratory
tests and health education on a wide variety of topics. Completion of the university health history form is required for registration.
PLU Student Health Insurance Program: Medical health insurance is required for all domestic full-time undergraduate students, and all full-time and part-time international students. Students will be automatically enrolled and billed in the PLU Student Health Insurance Plan if they do not waive-out of the insurance plan before September 17, 2007. A student who is covered by a comparable health insurance plan can waive-out of the PLU Student Health Insurance Plan by providing evidence of comparable primary insurance through an online waive-out form during registration and no later than September 17, 2007. The full array of costs, plan details and instructions are online at www.plu.edu/health.
PLU Health Insurance Plan is not available to graduate students.
The immunization policy states that all students born after
December 31, 1956, are required to provide documentation of two
measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccinations received after their first
birthday. This information must be on file before a student is
permitted to register. Recommended vaccines are Hepatitis B, meningitis,
and an up-to-date tetanus/diphtheria immunization.
International students, faculty and scholars from countries at risk
for TB will be required to have a tuberculosis skin test. This test is
done at the Student Health Center after arrival at the university. The
cost is $20.
Questions about the immunization policy will be answered gladly at the health center.
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