UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
Student Health Services goal is to enhance students' health so that students can successfully pursue their academic, personal, and professional endeavors.
Student Health and Counseling Services offers on-campus professional mental health counseling services, collaborative clinical health services contracted through M Health Fairview Clinic- River Falls and Pierce County Reproductive Health in River Falls, and holistic educational and preventative initiatives and programming. Student Health and Counseling Services are supported by the health segregated fee that students pay as part of their fees.
call 911 or contact other crisis options available 24/7, including
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, a free and confidential service that is available 24/7. Anyone can access the Lifeline by calling 988 (multiple languages available), texting a message to 988 (English only), or using the chat feature at 988lifeline.org (English only).
Please see our Emergency/Crisis Situations web page at https://www.uwrf.edu/StudentHealthAndCounseling/EmergencyMedicalCare.cfm.
UWRF is monitoring monkeypox in collaboration with Pierce County Public Health. Any student concerned they have been infected, exposed, or are at risk, can call PCPH at 715-273-6755 to ask a question, get tested and/or vaccinated. Any staff or faculty member with a concern should call their primary care provider. For more information, please see Monkeypox: What College Students Need to Know (wisconsin.gov).
UWRF will continue to evaluate recommendations from Pierce County Public Health, remaining prepared to modify our plans as the situation dictates.
UWRF Personal Counselors Appointments: Counseling Services is offering in=person and remote telecounseling therapy appointments. Students wishing to schedule a counseling appointment, please email (counseling.services@uwrf.edu) or call 715-425-3884.
More information regarding counseling at River Falls can be found at Counseling Services.
Vibrant Health Family Clinics became M Health Fairview Clinic on March 15, 2021.
The clinic is located at 319 Main Street (adjacent to Family Fresh Grocery), telephone 715-425-6701. Press option 2. This will connect them to the care team. They tell the staff person answering the phone that they are an UWRF student and they need to be scheduled at the River Falls Clinic for an appointment.
Students should call ahead for appointments and identify themselves as a current UWRF student. Depending on the provider and the reason for the appointment, telehealth or an in-person visit may be scheduled. Telehealth appointments are covered by Student Health Services just as in-person appointments have been in the past. For more information about covered services, go to https://www.uwrf.edu/StudentHealthAndCounseling/StudentHealthServices/RFMC.cfm.
Pierce County Reproductive Health in River Falls
1234 S. Wasson Lane, 715-425-8003
For more information about covered services, go to https://www.uwrf.edu/StudentHealthAndCounseling/StudentHealthServices/PCRHS.cfm
For updated Covid-19 information, go to Falcons Forward | Covid 19.
Learn more about Monkeypox with this link to the CDC
Influenza vaccines are covered for current students at M Health Fairview Clinic-River Falls by Student Health Services. Students should call 715-425-6701 to schedule an appointment for the flu vaccine. Employees should contact their personal health care provider to schedule an appointment for their flu shot. For more information, see: Immunizations.
Eligibility for Student Health Services at M Health Fairview Clinic-River Falls and Pierce County Reproductive Health: Students are eligible for Student Health Services during the two academic terms, and the January and Summer terms, as long as they are registered for classes and have paid required fees.
Certain clinical health services are provided through Student Health Services for registered full-time and part-time UWRF students through contractual agreements with M Heallth Fairview Clinic-River Falls and Pierce County Reproductive Health. Students are eligible between Fall and Spring terms as long as they are registered for the next term and have paid fees as required. Generally students enrolled in classes offered as part of a distance education program, such as an online program or study abroad, do not pay segregated fees and so would not be eligible for services provided through Student Health and Counseling Services.
Student Health Services covers certain limited health services for students at M Health Fairview Clinic-River Falls and Pierce County Reproductive Health. Student Health Services is NOT health insurance and all students are strongly encouraged to carry health insurance.
For more information about covered medical services, go to https://www.uwrf.edu/StudentHealthAndCounseling/StudentHealthServices/RFMC.cfm.
For information about covered reproductive health services, go to https://www.uwrf.edu/StudentHealthAndCounseling/StudentHealthServices/PCRHS.cfm
Eligibility dates for Health & Counseling Services 2022-2023
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254 Rodli Hall student.health.services@uwrf.edu Email is not a confidential mode of communication and it is inappropriate for conveying information of an urgent nature and/or for relaying information to and from medical or mental health providers. If this is an emergency, call 911. This email is not monitored 24/7 and it not intended for urgent issues or emergencies. Although we do our very best to respond within 3 business days, because of holiday weekends and staff's schedules, there may be times when this is not possible. For questions or for more information about UW-River Falls Student Health and Counseling Services, contact our office during regular business hours (M-F 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) at 715-425-3293 or 3884.
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