New director, hours at health center
Weekday service expands
By Sarah Baker
Assignment Reporter
A new director isn’t the only
change in store for the University
Health Center this year. Besides
appointing new director Linda
Herrmann, the health center is ini
tiating new hours and procedures
to strengthen the services provid
ed for students on campus.
Herrmann took over the direc
tor’s post July 1. Peg Blake, asso
ciate vice chancellor and now the
director of admissions, held the
position Jjefore. Herrmann has
been with the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln since 1996 and
was the associate director of clin
ical services at the health center.
She is a specialist in internal
medicine and has worked at the
University of Illinois at Rockford
as the medical director and the
College of William and Mary in
Williamsburg, Va.
Herrmann said she was
pleased with the changes to the
health center.
“In a world where the health
care industry continues to change,
we continue to review our ser
vices and make changes to pro
vide UNL students the best quali
ty and convenient health care ser
i vices as possible,” she said.
“These recommendations are an
excellent enhancement to our
established clinic services.”
Carol Ash, health center com
munity coordinator, said the
biggest change the center made
was with its hours. The health
center used to be open Sundays
from 10 a.m. to noon for emergen
cies but now will be closed.
The health center looked at the
number of students who visited
the center during different times
and then reorganized the hours
accordingly, Ash said.
“We saw that not too many stu
dents were actually visiting the
center on Sundays for any emer
gency situations,” Ash said. “We
closed the center on Sundays, but
then scheduled more hours for
appointments on both the week
days and Saturday, which is a big
improvement in convenience for
students, especially those who
work and couldn’t make it to the
center during our old appointment
times.”
The center is now open week
days from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., instead
of until 5 p.m., as it was in the
past. Saturdays, the hours are
10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., a change
from the old hours of 10 to noon.
This appointment system is
not only more convenient for stu
dents, Ash said, but is also teach
ing them about health care.
“Our new appointment process
teaches students what it is like to
take care of their own health-care
processes in the real community,”
Ash said. “This is something they
can use in the future.”
The changes were put into
place after a review team made up
of students and health center clin
ical staff met to evaluate how well
the health center resources were
being used, Ash said.
Specific topics the team
reviewed include hours of opera
tion, urgent care services, after
hours services, appointment pro
cedures, quality of medical clinic
visits and East Campus services.
After these topics were reviewed,
a list of definite changes was tar
geted. These changes include:
■ Nurses taking calls over the
phone. This allows students the
option to call instead of coming in
to ask a nurse about their con
cerns. These nurses are there to
answer questions and make sure
students receive proper care.
Please see HEALTH on 8
NURSE VICKI BRACHT, left, senior biology major Jenny Starr and the new University Health Center Director Linda
Herrmann discuss changes to the new nurse triage room. Starr and Herrmann were part of the clinical services
review team that searched for potential changes to the health center so it could serve students better.
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