Free flu shots will be administered at both the University’s Health Faculty Group Practice as well as the University’s Student Health Center, with the latter administering flu shots courtesy of the health fee included in the University’s tuition.
ObamaCare says that after a child turns 26, they are no longer protected by their family’s health insurance. FIU is making sure that every student is covered by a health insurance.
It is difficult for us, The Beacon’s editorial board, to have an opinion either way about an idea that goes back several years, because there is still so much ambiguity. It is still unclear what inspired the idea for the University to merge the clinical components of SHS with FIU Health.
For students seeking medical services while on campus it is business as usual, for now. But as FIU Health assesses what could change in SHS’ clinical operations, the thousands of students who use on-campus health services will have to wait and see if they receive them from the same different doctor or nurse with which they are comfortable.
With the ObamaCare enrollment deadline only a couple weeks away, FIU will host its final Health Insurance Information Enrollment Event at the Biscayne Bay Campus Feb. 7.
Plans regarding student health requirements at the University and decisions on the fairgrounds expansion were brought forward on the Sept. 10 Board of Trustees meetings.
The Board of Trustees met on June 3 and discussed new projects, recent accomplishments and looming changes in college health care.
Alyssa Elso/ Contributing Writer The newly renamed Student Health Services, will soon be improving its medical services available to students. These new improvements will however…
Alyssa Elso/Contributing Writer For more than a year, FIU Health physicians have provided state-of-the-art, comprehensive care to patients at the Modesto Maidique Faculty Group Practice….
