HEALTH SERVICES:
Rutgers-Camden Health Services continued in its role as a comprehensive, collaborative outpatient clinic responding holistically to the health needs of the campus and at times, Camden community. At the unit level, we expanded our clinic hours to provide evening services from Monday through Thursday. We are the only health service at Rutgers University to have our total staff trained in cardiac pulmonary resuscitation. During the past year, two patient satisfaction surveys indicated greater than 90% satisfaction with our services. We attribute part of this success to having an effective ongoing quality assurance program that evaluates the effectiveness of mental health care, medical care, and overall health service staff performance.
Medical Services
Within medical services, a smooth transitional change of laboratory contracts was accomplished without losing one day of testing. As part of quality assurance, two diagnostic chart reviews were performed including a review of our overall treatment guidelines. Campus medical outreach includes consultations with REHS and Facilities to assist with a safe working environment, the coordination with the Teacher Prep Program regarding accurate usage of TB screening, and collaboration with Residence Housing to support student compliance for meeting their requirement for the meningitis vaccination. Campus/community outreach includes programs to local elementary and high schools, Rutgers University Freshman students, and LEAP Academy students on topics focusing on fire safety, first aid and sexually transmitted infections, and participating in two Top Off/Bio-terrorism exercises in Middlesex County and Camden County.
Psychological Services
In addition to providing our basic set of mental health and drug/alcohol/nicotine counseling services, we continued our attempts to meet expanding campus demands for services. We maintained a successful psychology pre doctoral internship and practicum training programs with Ancora Psychiatric Hospital, Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, and Immaculatta University. Health promotion is provided to students through mental health workshops/presentations conducted for EOF Students, Teaching Assistants, LRC Tutors, and Pre Law Society. This is also done through a viable and ongoing Health Advocate training program. Students are trained to function as teams to provide campus outreach focusing on sexually transmitted infections, nutrition, stress management, mental health issues, and available health resources. Professional consultations and targeted interventions were also performed by mental health staff to ten departments during the past year including two post suicide interventions. We provided extensive orientation outreach to six student groups as well as alcohol/drug/nicotine related information to both students/staff. Finally, we continue our collaboration with the English Writing Program to conduct our yearly freshmen health survey to collect data for future student health trends and educational intervention.
Health Services
Camden Campus Center
326 Penn Street
Camden, NJ 08102
(856)225-6005
http://healthservices.camden.rutgers.edu/
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