Student Health & Counseling Center

Medical services are available for both routine and acute care. Clinical services are provided by certified physicians, physician assistants, and supported by medical assistants.

Who we serve and the Student Health fee:

Who can use these services?

The Student Health and Counseling Center is available to all students currently enrolled at Western Oregon University

The Student Health Fee...

...entitles students to routine office visits to the health center and to an intake session (and five individual counseling sessions) in the counseling center. There is a $30.00 fee for additional counseling sessions. Students registered for 6 or more credits during the academic year (six or more during the summer session) pay the student health fee.

Students enrolled for fewer than 6 credits each term during the academic year,

or less than six credits during the summer session, can elect to pay the Student Health Fee, making them eligible for use of the services at the Student Health and Counseling Center.

The Student Health Fee is comprised of two parts:

• The fee supporting the counseling and medical facility and professional staff;
• The fee for Automatic Limited Medical Insurance coverage

Part one...

...of the Student Health Fee is optional for students taking eight or less credit hours. These students may choose to pay the fee anytime during the term and may then use the Student Health and Counseling Center.

Part two...

...of the Student Health Fee is not available to students taking five or less credit hours each term.

Fees will be assessed for the following:

• Medications
• Laboratory testing
• Medical supplies
• Sports or work physicals
• Women's health care annual exams
• Counseling (after the initial intake and five regular sessions)
• Various assessments (including vocational, drugs, and alcohol

Services offered by the Student Health Center:

• Treatment of acute injury and illness
• Assist with the management of chronic illness
• Women's health care: contraceptive counseling, pap smears, breast exams, pregnancy testing and counseling
• STI testing, counseling, and confidential HIV testing
• Limited laboratory testing
• Limited medication dispensing
• Sports and work physicals
• Immunizations
• Nutritional Counseling
• Excision and wart removal

 Health Insurance

Automatic limited health insurance:

The university requires health insurance as a condition of enrollment for any student taking 6 credit hours or more each term regardless of other health insurance coverage.

The automatic health insurance is of a limited nature:

Extended coverage for students and dependents can be purchased through the business office. You may access the insurance brochure which explains coverage of both the limited and the extended plans for either resident or international students,

Insurance brochures

• Domestic student health insurance plan
• International student health insurance plan

This health insurance can be used at any doctor's office that accepts AETNA:

As always, any full time student may see a doctor or physicians assistant at the WOU Student Health Center at no cost. Costs incurred for lab work or medications may be billed to the insurance company. To learn more and/or access a list of preferred providers,please contact the WOU Student Health Center.

Aetna Student Health and Wells Fargo Insurance Services - Student Insurance Division
Have partnered to support the health insurance needs of students while at Western Oregon University.