Eye care coming to UNL
From Staff Reports
Students in need of eye care will
have a convenient, low-cost alternative
when the University Health Center
opens a new optometry department on
Sept. 8.
Hcaitn center
medical director
Russell LaBcau said
the department was
started in response
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have called for information about eye
care services, he said. LaBeau said the
service had been offered at many other
universities but never at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Mark Ameson, a local optometrist,
will run the department. He received his
undergraduate degree from UNL and
has been practicing in Lincoln for two
years.
Glasses will not be available through
the health center, but students can lake
their prescriptions off campus to get
them filled. Contact lenses will be avail
able at the health center in January.
Eye exams initially will be offered
only on Thursday mornings, but the
hours will be expanded as requests for
appointments increase, he said.
The cost of the exams will not be
covered by student health fees. LaBcau
declined to release specific information
regarding costs, but he said the exams
would be significantly less expensive
than private optometry clinics.
For more information, contact the
University Health Center.
Health center: New hours OK
By Rebecca Pitmans
Staff Reporter
The University Heal th Center has
had no problems adjusting to having
no overnight services, said Russell
LaBeau, medical director of the heal th
center.
The center stopped providing 24
hour medical services on May 9. It
eliminated late-evening and carly
moming services and expanded day
time hours.
LaBeau said too few students used
the overnight services. The cost of
serving the small num ber of students
was not economically feasible, cost
ing up to $400 per patient.
Cutting out the nighttime hours
has made a big difference to the
center financially, LcBeau said.
“We arc better able to meet our
budget,” LcBeau said.
An orderly still remains over
night to answer calls and to reter
students to another location or phone
number, he said.
“The calls are very few,” LaBeau
said. “Even afternoons are 1 ight, and
about once or tw ice a week we ’ II refer
a student out at night.”
LaBeau said weekend and holi
day hours th is summer also had been
used lightly. The center usually re
ceives fewer calls during the sum
mer, he said.
Prior to this summer, the night
hours in the summer were used less
than 10 percent of what they were
used during the academic year,
LaBeau said.
Although the health center had
more students using the nighttime
hours in the regular school year,
most calls came in before 10 p.m.,
LeBeau said.
“With the center being open until
10 p.m. this fall, we will still be able
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LcBeau said.
Prevention specialist David Bow
er said the health center also had had
no problems without the nighttime .
detoxification service.
Few students used the service when
it was available at night, he said.
For students living on campus
who need a detoxification center, the
health center will refer them of have
the UNL police escort them to the
Comhuskcr Place Detox Center at
721 K St.
If students arc victims of sexual
assault at night, they have a few
optioas, Sexuality Education Coor
dinator Pal Tetrcault said.
“They could either call the Rape
Spouse abuse crisis line,” Tetrcault
said. “Or if they go to the emergency
center at Lincoln General, the health
center will pay for that service.”
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coln community, officials said.
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comment on who appeared to be
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was looking for no one quality.
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