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The Health and Wellness Center is located in the Wegmans School of Nursing building and is open during the academic year Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
The Health and Wellness Center provides medical and counseling services. Medical services are intended to supplement the services received from your primary care physician/provider and include health care for common, uncomplicated medical illnesses, health education, and health maintenance. Students can also arrange to have their prescriptions delivered to the Health and Wellness Center to pick up. In addition, chiropractic health care is offered at the Health and Wellness Center by New York Chiropractic College.
Appointments
Appointments are encouraged, but walk in appointments may also be available. Visits to the Health and Wellness Center are confidential. Please call the office at (585) 385-8280. The center is unable to make appointments through email. Don’t forget your St. John Fisher College ID card and health insurance card!
Emergencies
If there is an on campus emergency, students should contact Security at (585) 385-8111. If it is an off-campus emergency students should call 911.
Medical Excuses
The Health and Wellness Center does not provide medical excuses for classes missed due to temporary illnesses. Students who will be absent from classes for three days or more due to extenuating circumstances such as illness or family emergency should contact the Center for Academic Advising and Support Services (585) 385-8034 or email academicadvising@sjfc.edu for an official notification to be sent to the student’s instructors. The student should follow up with his/her instructors as soon as possible.
Student Health Insurance
All students who pay the College’s comprehensive fee are eligible to use the services of the Health and Wellness Center. The comprehensive fee covers insurance co-pays for all medical visits. Your health insurance company will be billed for all medical office visits.
If you have health insurance, you will need to bring your Fisher ID card and health insurance card for each visit to the Health and Wellness Center. Doing so will ensure that we have the correct information to bill your insurance company for our fees.
All students without health insurance coverage will be charged $25 for each medical visit to the Health and Wellness Center. The College will bill students for such medical health care visits. If any students are unable to pay the $25 office visit fee, they may declare medical hardship status. Medical hardship status is granted on a case-by-case basis.
Mandatory Health Requirements
New York State Public Health law requires post-secondary students taking six or more credit hours enrolled in colleges within New York State to provide proof of immunity against measles, mumps, and rubella and to complete and sign a Meningitis Response form indicating whether they have had the meningitis vaccine or have made a decision not to have it. Students born prior to January 1, 1957, still need to complete and sign the Meningitis Response form but are exempt from the measles, mumps, and rubella requirements except for students enrolled in programs requiring clinical rotations in a healthcare facility (e.g., nursing, pharmacy, and mental health students). If a student fails to submit the required proof of immunizations within 30 days after the start of classes, he or she will be withdrawn from classes until proof of immunity is submitted. A fee of $300 will be assessed for reinstatement to classes. In addition to measles, mumps, and rubella immunizations, the American College Health Association strongly RECOMMENDS that students entering college be vaccinated against tetanus, diphtheria, polio, varicella (chickenpox), hepatitis B, and meningitis.
All entering students are required to provide a completed Health History form with a physical as well as a record of current immunizations. These documents must be presented to the Health and Wellness Center prior to course registration. The New York Public Health Law requires post-secondary students attending colleges and universities to demonstrate proof of immunity against measles, mumps, and rubella. All undergraduate and graduate students taking 6 credits or more must comply. The law applies to persons born on or after January 1, 1957. Nursing, pharmacy and students in the mental health program born before January 1, 1957 must show proof of immunity to rubella. Proof of immunity to measles, mumps, and rubella means the following:
- Measles (Rubeola): Two doses of live measles vaccine given on or after the first birthday or physician-documented history of disease or serological evidence of immunity.
- Rubella (German Measles): One dose of live virus rubella vaccine given on or after the first birthday or serological evidence of immunity.
- Mumps: One dose of live mumps vaccine given on or after the first birthday or physician-documented history of disease or serological evidence of immunity.
New York State Public Health Law also requires that all college and university students enrolled for at least six credits complete and return the Meningococcal Meningitis Vaccination Response form.
Proof of immunization compliance is required prior to course registration.
Once admitted to St. John Fisher College, students can expect to continue in attendance at the College as long as they maintain satisfactory academic standing, meet their financial obligation to the College, and do not seriously or persistently violate existing College regulations (see the Student Conduct website at www.sjfc.edu/student-life/student-conduct/).
St. John Fisher College expects all students to conduct themselves professionally, as befits those pursuing an advanced degree. Any student who engages in disruptive behavior may be subject to disciplinary action. Academic dismissal from the College occurs only after appropriate review and according to established College procedures.
Students are considered full-time if they are enrolled in nine or more graduate credits in a semester. Students are considered part-time if they are enrolled in fewer than nine graduate credits in a semester.
Note: For financial aid purposes, twelve credits is considered full-time and nine credits is considered three-quarter-time.