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Student Health Service
STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE
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Student Health Service (SHS) is here to help keep you as healthy as possible. College is more fun that way. When you’re sick, we’ll do everything we can to get you back to 100%. But more importantly, we provide you with the essential knowledge and skills to form lifelong habits that lead to sustained wellbeing. Through a variety of services — including a 24-hour on-call nurse service available during the academic year — we are committed to promoting and maintaining to promoting and maintaining the health of our students with a comprehensive approach a comprehensive approach involving health education, health maintenance, acute care, appropriate care of chronic illnesses and referral assistance. assistance.
STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE Website: shs.wfu.edu Phone: 336.758.5218 Fax: 336.758.6054 Administrative Questions Email: shs@wfu.edu Appointment Request Email: apptshs@wfu.edu MAILING ADDRESS MAILING ADDRESS P.O. Box 7386, Winston-Salem, NC 27109 LOCATION LOCATION Lower Level of Wake Forest Wellbeing Center
The following page provides more details on what we do and how we can help you during your time in the Forest. If you have any questions, please feel free to give us a call or stop by. free to give us a call or stop by.
Student Insurance Program
Health insurance coverage is required as a condition of enrollment for all degree seeking students. Students may waive the coverage if they can demonstrate comparable coverage. Please see the Student Insurance Program website for more details about benefts, policy, enrollment/ waiver instructions and eligibility. The deadline to enroll or waive this coverage is August 1. All students who do not complete this form will be automatically enrolled. Please visit shi.wfu.edu.
Health Information & Immunization
Wake Forest University, per North Carolina state law, requires documentation of certain immunizations for students attending college. The Health Information and Immunization Form can be found at shs.wfu.edu/forms. Forms must be completed and uploaded to your student portal at shs.wfu.edu/ - student health portal/ or returned via email to hiif@wfu.edu by July 1.
Student Health Fee
Most services at SHS are covered by the Student Health Fee. In addition, - there are discounted “fee for service” charges for medications, laboratory tests, observation care, procedures and some supplies. Payment can be made by cash, check, credit/debit cards or Student Blue Insurance, or charged to the student’s account. Each student is given a copy of the medical charges incurred on the date of service, which can be used for insurance fling. Student Health Service neither participates in nor fles insurance claims on behalf of patients. Forms can be found at shs.wfu.edu/forms.
Wake Alert
The University’s Wake Alert website is the primary source of information on emergencies: wakealert.wfu.edu.
Wfu Google Mail
The University will send a message to all WFU Google Mail addresses of students, staff and faculty.
Wake Alert website announcements will appear on Twitter. Follow @WakeAlert.
Indoor alert system
Many academic and administrative buildings have advanced fre alarm systems that can announce an emergency using speakers in particular common areas. The messages are prerecorded.
Outdoor warning system
An alert message will be broadcast outdoors using speakers that activate a siren and announce a brief prerecorded or live message.
Text messaging
The University will send brief text messages to students, faculty and staff who have registered their cellphones on WIN. Undergraduates must register for the messages by providing their cellphone numbers when they register for classes each fall.
Please complete by August 16, 2022
Using your WFU login, register your cellphone with Wake Ready in order to receive emergency notifcations: wakeready.wfu.edu. Register all property with WFUPD: police.wfu.edu/forms/operation-id-form. View the Safety 101 and Shots Fired videos: police.wfu.edu.
Review all the following links:
Anonymous reporting: police.wfu.edu Rape Aggression Defense: police.wfu.edu/rad/rad-info Safety tips: wakeready.wfu.edu/crimeprevention-and-safety-tips Emergency preparedness: wakeready.wfu.edu Download LiveSafe app: police.wfu.edu/safety/live-safe-app
