AUM’s Student Health Clinic is a primary care facility available to students, faculty, staff, and their dependents. Located in the College of Nursing and Health Services, Irma B. Moore Hall, Room 102, this office provides comprehensive health services for students with a valid ID. They are available Monday-Friday, 8:15 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Patients will receive “prompt, quality, cost-effective and individualized health care,” says the SHS primary website.
The clinic provides primary care for “sick” visits, physical examinations, women’s health examinations, contraceptive counseling, sexually transmitted infection(s) testing, laboratory testing, and referral services. Additionally, they provide mandatory immunizations including: TB testing and the immunizations listed on the mandatory form for all incoming students. The clinic encourages students to reach out with any questions or concerns regarding campus regulations for immunizations. They also provide information regarding the incoming immunizations form on their website with a link to the direct form. Appointments are available by phone (334-244-3281) or fax (334-244-3396). Though appointments take priority, walk-ins are welcome.
For students needing to be seen by one of the registered nurse practitioners, there is a $5 co-payment for sick visits; costs of more extensive visits may vary. Payment can be with cash, check or credit card
Another service on campus, the Counseling Center, provides different levels of support and counseling to AUM students for free. As listed on the Counseling Center’s site, this office provides “short-term solution-focused therapy that is designed to promote the student’s overall health,” in the form of individual or small-group appointments. This program aims to provide students with explorations of self, where possible resolutions are discussed with respect and confidential understandings.
Support services offers individual and group counseling with solution-focused appointments for a set number of meetings. There is no limit on the number of visits for these services; however, students typically attend four to six meetings each lasting about an hour. There is further information regarding what to expect from the Counseling Center on the AUM website.
By Dana Horton