Student Health Services

Providing students with health, wellness and counseling services

Student Health Services (SHS) guides students toward a personal commitment to wellness and self-care, laying the foundation for a healthy life. We’re ready to help students become self-directed, informed healthcare consumers and model patients. 

Confidentiality

Student records are strictly confidential. Information cannot be released to anyone — including family, faculty or administration — without the student’s written consent.

By law, certain public health diseases must be reported to the Department of Health. Exceptions where confidentiality can be broken include:

• If a student is found to be a danger to themselves or others.
• There is reasonable suspicion of abuse to a child, elderly person or other vulnerable adult.
• The case file is court ordered by a judge.

Provision of sensitive health services to Geisinger College of Health Sciences students

Some student health and psychological/psychiatric conditions are sensitive. A professional patient relationship between Geisinger College of Health Sciences faculty and students would be inconsistent with a teacher-student relationship.

Should a Geisinger College of Health Sciences faculty member provide sensitive health services to a student, the faculty member won’t be involved in the student’s academic evaluation or promotion.

Virtual care 24/7

Nursing students have 24/7 access to free virtual care and sessions through TimelyCare.

Students can also take the anonymous stress and depression questionnaire to receive recommendations from a counselor.

If you find yourself or know of a student in crisis and need immediate help, call 911, use the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or text the Crisis Text Line at 741-741.