Health and Wellness Center
\n<\/b>The Health and Wellness Center, located in Oriskany Hall, Suite B, at the Utica site, provides evaluation, treatment and prevention of health-related problems for full-time, part-time, undergraduate and graduate students. The Health and Wellness Center is staffed by a part-time physician, a nurse practitioner, registered nurses, a health educator and support personnel. It is open daily Monday through Thursday, 9 am to 6 pm, Friday until 5 pm.<\/p>\n
The Health and Wellness Center and Counseling Center are supported through a mandatory health fee each semester. This fee provides each student comprehensive, confidential health-related services by appointment or walk-in basis at the Health and Wellness Center. This fee should not be confused with the mandatory medical insurance fee that covers off-campus health care services. Some services provided by the mandatory health fee include:<\/p>\n
Clinical Services:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Health Education:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Student Health Requirements for Attending SUNY Poly: Immunizations – Mandatory for all students registered for six (6) or more credits.\u00a0Non-compliant students will be de-registered pursuant to the directives of the law.<\/b><\/p>\n Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR)<\/b> – NYS Health Law \u00a7 2165 requires all students taking on campus classes to provide documentation of immunity to MMR. Persons born prior to 1\/1\/57 are exempt.<\/p>\n \u00a0Required documentation:<\/strong><\/p>\n OR<\/b><\/p>\n Meningococcal Meningitis<\/b> – NYS Health Law \u00a7 2167 requires all on or off \u00a0campus students provide the following documentation:<\/p>\n OR<\/b><\/p>\n Health History and Physical Examination within the last two (2) years \u2013 Mandatory for all students registered for twelve (12) or more credits. <\/strong>The\u00a0student may only receive clinical services at the Health & Wellness Center after the health history and physical examination have been submitted. Full-time students\u00a0will not be permitted to register for another term until this health requirement has been met. Students taking less than 12 credits may use the clinical services if a physical examination within 2 years is on file.<\/p>\n Medical Insurance \u2013 Mandatory for all students (Albany and Utica) registered for twelve (12) or more credits and all nursing students,\u00a0regardless of credit hours.<\/strong>\u00a0SUNY Poly provides a basic, economical medical insurance plan for students who need coverage or wish to purchase additional coverage. Students taking less than 12 credits may request enrollment.<\/p>\n Domestic Student Medical Insurance Policy<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 EACH semester all domestic students taking twelve (12) or more credits and all nursing students,\u00a0regardless of credit hours,\u00a0are automatically billed and enrolled for a medical insurance policy as designated by SUNY Poly. If a student has other medical insurance coverage, i.e. under a parent or employer, and the student does not wish to purchase the SUNY Poly designated medical insurance, a waiver must be completed prior to attendance once each academic year. Automatic billing and enrollment will occur, if a waiver is not completed by the first day of the semester. Once that date passes, no waivers will be accepted. A PIN number is required to complete the waiver, which new students receive via mail. The medical insurance waiver is online:\u00a0http:\/\/healthwaiver.sunypoly.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n International Student Medical Insurance Policy<\/strong> \u2013 The State University of New York requires that all international students entering the country for study or research, or any US student studying abroad in a SUNY sponsored program purchase a SUNY medical insurance policy.\u00a0 Medical insurance information is mailed upon admission and students are automatically billed.<\/p>\n For questions or more information, please contact the Health and Wellness Center by\u00a0phone: 315-792-7172 or fax: 315-792-7371.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Health and Wellness Center The Health and Wellness Center, located in Oriskany Hall, Suite B, at the Utica site, provides evaluation, treatment and prevention of health-related problems for full-time, part-time, undergraduate and graduate students. The Health and Wellness Center is staffed by a part-time physician, a nurse practitioner, registered nurses, a health educator and support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":60,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/grad-catalog-2015-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/grad-catalog-2015-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/grad-catalog-2015-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/grad-catalog-2015-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/grad-catalog-2015-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/grad-catalog-2015-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/grad-catalog-2015-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp.sunypoly.edu\/grad-catalog-2015-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n<\/b>All students are REQUIRED to provide the following health documents to the Health and Wellness Center before August 1 for fall admission and January 1 for spring. Student athletes and nursing students have more stringent health requirements. Please refer to those respective departments for details.<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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