COVID-19 Take home kits available today!
Feb 17—Pick up convenient home kits to provide saliva samples in the privacy of your home (three kits person max). Kits are available in Pappas… Read more »
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Co-pay Update on Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP)
For the 2020-2021 policy year, the Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) provider, Aetna, implemented a change in the co-pay structure of visits. In previous plan… Read more »
MySHR—Technical Difficulties (Resolved)
UPDATE 10:13 PM—This issue has been resolved. Scheduling in MySHR has returned to normal operations. Technical difficulties have previously been reported in scheduling COVID-19 testing… Read more »
Panel Talk: “Black Women and Healthcare Discrimination”
Join us for a discussion about race and racism as it impacts Black women, and maternal and infant health outcomes in the community, Feb. 23, 12… Read more »
Celebrating Black History Month
In honor of Black History Month, USC Student Health celebrates Black pioneers in medicine and mental health. Look for these profiles on our social media channels throughout the month of February. Daniel Hale Williams: Performed the first successful heart surgery • Bebe Moore Campbell: American author, journalist, mental health advocate • Otis Boykin: Innovator of the modern pacemaker • Inez Beverly Prosser: America’s first black female psychologist • Alexa Irene Canady, MD, neurosurgeon, inventor of a programmable antisiphon shunt to treat hydrocephalus.
MySHR Troubleshooting Guide
NOW AVAILABLE—Looking for instructions on uploading documentation? Having difficulties logging in to MySHR? The troubleshooting guide to MySHR can help you resolve common obstacles to… Read more »
MySHR scheduled maintenance
MySHR will be temporarily unavailable between 8:30-9:30 PM PST on the following Saturday evenings, on the following dates: February 20 • March 20 • April 17 • May 15 • June… Read more »
COVID-19 Vaccinations Come to UPC
As part of the 1A phase of the vaccination roll-out, health professional students, faculty and staff who are in direct contact with patients or collected specimens have been invited to sign-up for their vaccinations at the Lyons Center. Those in the 1A phase include faculty, staff and students of the Keck School of Medicine, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, and the USC School of Pharmacy. The dental faculty, students, and staff were also invited as the first group to be vaccinated at UPC. Dean Avishai Sadan and Associate Dean Douglas Solow were on hand to support their students as they were vaccinated. The Ostrow School not only were the patients in the vaccine rollout, they were also actively assisting, sending dozens of D.D.S. students to volunteer in preparing the vaccines in the USC Student Health immunization clinic and assisting at the vaccine site.
Spring 2021 Testing Requirements
REQUIRED TESTING: Faculty, Staff and Students (Weekly/Semi-weekly Testing)
Surveillance Testing (Pop Testing 3.0):Undergraduate students who reside in USC Housing or come onto our campuses will be required to test twice weekly for COVID-19. Graduate and professional students, faculty, and staff who come onto our campuses will be required to test once weekly. These required tests will be provided by the University at no cost to our current students, faculty and staff. Tests are PCR (polymerase chain reaction); Keck Medicine of USC Clinical Laboratories is providing the laboratory services for this program which will replace the COLOR program for most individuals. For the University Park Campus (UPC), perimeter access is granted to individuals who have completed compliance on Trojan Check. For the Health Sciences Campus (HSC), access points are by building; academic and research buildings require Trojan Check. Please see the HSC building list for additional details.
COVID-19 Q & A Sessions with USC Student Health
Join Dr. Sarah Van Orman, Chief Health Officer for USC Student Health, for January 2021 updates on the current situation in Los Angeles County (including the 10-day quarantine for people traveling from outside of the Southern California region), COVID-19 spring testing at USC, and the vaccine phases as it applies to California and campus.