Olin Health Center is located at 463 East Circle Drive. For a map, please click here.
Our Neighborhood clinic is at 148 Brody Hall.
It is the position of Campus Health Services that faculty should not require notes from medical professionals in order to excuse a student from a short-term absence from class or for missing an exam due to illness. Requiring notes results in students making appointments for short-term and self-limited illnesses ONLY for the purpose of getting a note. This takes up valuable resources and time that could be spent seeing students that truly need medical care. Instead, classroom policies should be structured to allow for routine short-term absences due to self-reported illnesses, including contagious illnesses, which are extremely common for university students and usually do not require medical care.
Illnesses of longer duration that require medical care and result in multiple days of missed classes may be handled differently. In these cases a medical provider may give a letter for a student. Students must see one of our health-care providers while they are ill, not after they have missed a few classes, recovered and have returned to class.
Students who are seen at Campus Health Services can request an Appointment Verification for any visit, but we discourage professors from requiring this for the reasons given above. Campus Health Services will not issue verification notes or letters without examining the student.
Campus Health Services participates with the Blue Care Network (BCN) MSU Student Insurance plan, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan, BCN, BC Complete, Cofinity, McLaren, McLaren Medicaid, Aetna PPO and Priority Health, and some specific Medicaid plans. We would be considered an out-of-network provider for most other medical plans. We can bill your out-of-network insurance company, and would then bill you for the balance. It is your responsibility to find out what coverage your insurance plan will cover for out of network services.
Our laboratory functions in compliance with the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) and is accredited by The Joint Commission.
Accreditation means a laboratory has been assessed by a third-party auditor and has been determined to operate according to the standards for medical laboratories. It means that the quality and competence of the laboratory’s ability is monitored. This third-party assessment gives confidence that the laboratory is competent to produce reliable results.
The laboratory holds a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments certification by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. View a copy of the certification here.
Screening: identifies the risk of disease or medical condition in patients who present no symptoms. This allows for early diagnosis to better treat or to prevent
Diagnosis: to help to identify or exclude the presence of a condition or an illness in patients who have symptoms, such as a pregnancy test or a blood count for anemia. Sometimes the test will tell the practitioner what stage the disease is in.
Management: to determine the prognosis or course of the disease. A test can be used to monitor the progression of the disease and to determine remission or recurrence and to keep or alter the patient’s current treatment.
Generally, most people have no problems and can return to normal activity immediately.
If you have had a hard time having your blood drawn, you may notice some bruising around the site where blood was drawn. You can use ice if you are experiencing discomfort.
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