Calvin college health services

The college provides limited outpatient medical care for all registered students. Charges for services provided are kept as low as possible. Health Services, located in the basement of Heyns Hall, is staffed by registered nurses and a team of physicians with consultation hours on weekdays during the College academic year. Serious health problems are referred to the student's family or to the local physician of choice after discussion with Health Services personnel.

In addition to caring for health problems the Health Services staff encourages health teaching and preventive medicine. For the protection of everyone in the Calvin commu­nity, current physician-documented immunization status for polio, diphtheria, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella, and tuberculin skin testing is mandatory for under­graduate students entering the Calvin College. Students, who lack such documentation, are not permitted to register for succeeding semesters until this requirement is met.

A Group Accident and Sickness Expense Protection Plan is available to all students on a low-cost, voluntary basis. This plan primarily covers conditions for which hospitalisation is required and provides little in the way of outpatient benefits. All students are strongly urged to be certain they have adequate broad-range coverage. Family plans for married students are also available in the Financial Services Office.

The college is not normally liable for injures sustained by students in their activities as students, even though such injuries occur on college premises, in laboratory work, or in physical education classes. The college does not undertake to be the insurer of its stu­dents, and its liability under the law must be based on fault. It is necessary, in order to establish the liability of the college for such injuries, not only to prove negligence or carelessness on the part of the college, but also to show that the student was free from any negligence or carelessness which might have contributed to the injuries. Accord­ingly, students are advised to be certain that they are covered by personal health and accident insurance.

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