New Students
November 2020
Dear Incoming Student,
Welcome to Swarthmore College. I am delighted to have you as a member of the Swarthmore community.
The health and wellness team supports the needs of our diverse student body by providing individualized holistic care and campus-wide education. The Health & Wellness Center offers myriad wellness promotion, counseling, acute care, and prevention services.
Students may schedule appointments at the Health and Wellness Center and can be seen by a Registered Nurse, Nurse practitioner, physician, dietitian, alcohol and other drug counselor, and violence prevention educator and advocate. Our physicians are members of the Crozer Health System, a full-service teaching hospital and trauma center. The Health & Wellness Center provides acute care, alcohol and other drug counseling, health and wellness promotion, nutrition counseling, violence prevention services, interpersonal relationship education, allergy injections, first aid treatment, reproductive health services, simple diagnostic screenings, travel health consultations, vaccinations, and wellness visits. Our operational hours are based on when the need is highest, and are supplemented by an after-hours on call system that provides students with access to a registered nurse.
All visits to the Health & Wellness Center are free of cost. A nominal fee is applied for simple diagnostic tests and most medications dispensed at the Health & Wellness Center. Laboratory specimens are sent to LabCorp or Quest Diagnostics and are billed by the lab to the student’s health insurance.
The Swarthmore College Student Health Portal is available for managing your on-campus health needs and forms. You can access your Student Health Portal through your mySwarthmore account. Click on Worth Health Center, then, click on Student Health Portal. The following forms are on the Student Health Portal. Completion is due prior to arrival on campus and necessary to be eligible for a new student housing assignment and access to roommate information.
- Health Certificate completed by student online in the Student Health Portal
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All students are enrolled by default in the Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP). To waive out of the SHIP: Log into mySwarthmore<Click Worth Health Center<Click Health Insurance Waiver
- Immunization Record completed by healthcare provider (print, complete, enter immunization dates in portal, upload to portal and mail)
- Tuberculosis (TB) Screening Questionnaire completed by healthcare provider (print, complete, upload to portal and mail)
- Physical within the past year completed by healthcare provider (print, complete, upload to portal and mail)
Health insurance is required for all Swarthmore students. Please read the Important Annual Health Insurance Requirement information carefully. If you are insured by another plan, please be certain that your private health insurance plan will adequately cover a student away from home. Services away from home, such as blood tests, MRI’s, x-rays, and care from specialists are often not covered under a private insurance plan.
The full amount of the student health insurance plan premium will be charged to your tuition bill if you do not complete the online waiver process. Failure to comply with this deadline will result in automatic enrollment into the Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP). This fee will be added to the first tuition bill.
