for Patient-Centered Care and Community-Centered Health Promotion
You-centered care
means seeing and listening to
the whole person who arrives at USC.
USC Student Health makes a commitment to being a leader in college health and campus public health, continually deepening our understanding of the whole person who arrives at USC.
We utilize patient-centered health care and community-centered health promotion as two very powerful processes to create health. This happens through the individual attention each patient receives AND the comprehensive attention to our setting that the whole population shares and distinct communities moves through each day.
At USC Student Health, we see the whole you and the world that surrounds you as essential to creating health.
Our team is centered on creating health with persons, policies, practices, and places. We work collaboratively with campus partners to strengthen a campus culture and environments that enhance health.
For each individual, we are committed to seeing, listening, and understanding their context and questions, while providing them with the services, support, and guidance that can help them become empowered in making wise health decisions — both for themselves and the communities and places they share.
Focus Area: ACEs, Toxic Stress, and Trauma-Informed Care
As part of this progress map, trauma-informed practices are embedded into the fabric of our organization.
Our medical providers have completed training as part of the ACES Aware, a program for medical providers on adverse childhood experiences and their impacts on a person’s health. This brings in to our organization a fundamental recognition of toxic stress and its potential roots in adverse childhood experiences. Trauma-informed care training is regularly provided for all Student Health employees.
Public Health Research: “All of Us” Research Program
The “All of Us” research program is a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, aiming to enroll 1 million Americans in collecting health data. The information collected can aid researchers in understanding health conditions that effect millions of people throughout the United States.
USC Student Health is pleased to partner with the Keck School of Medicine, a member of the All of Us Research California consortium, to encourage our campus communities to learn about the study and understand why participation from many communities can help develop precision treatment in medicine.
Campus Participation: Monthly Blood Drives
How can you help save lives? By giving blood.
Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood for surgeries, cancer treatments, childbirth, anemia, serious injuries, blood disorders, and more. Your generous donation can make a difference to millions of Americans—including people in your own community.
USC partners with LifeStream Blood Bank, the primary blood supplier for Keck Medicine of USC, including Keck Hospital and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, for monthly blood donation opportunities at HSC (at the Keck Medical Center of USC, HC4) and UPC (in the USC Village, in front of McCarthy Honors College).
