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Student Health Care
Des Moines University offers health care services to students at DMU Clinic's Student Health Services.
All office visits and other selected services are provided free of charge to full-time students enrolled in Clinical programs and to their immediate family members. Please refer to the listing of covered services below. Students and family members are responsible for all non-covered services. Students and their family members may choose a provider from the Student Health Services staff, including physicians specializing in family practice or internal medicine or a physician assistant.
All persons seeking care through Student Health Services are required to present their insurance card prior to each office visit.
Services provided free of charge:
- Evaluation of minor injuries
- Evaluation of acute or chronic illness
- General preventive care
- Pelvic exams
- Allergy injections
- Dipstick urinalysis
- Urine pregnancy tests
- Rapid strep screens
- Occult stools
- Spirometry testing without bronchodilation
- Annual TB testing for students
Services provided at cost:
- Immunizations for family members
- Immunizations and titers required for admission
- Nebulizer treatments
- Spirometry testing with bronchodilation
- Durable medical equipment (e.g., splits and ace bandages)
- All lab tests not included in the Free Services, including pap smears, pathology reports for biopsies, complete blood counts, cultures, etc.
- Procedures such as suture placement, wart removal, lesion removal, etc.
- Injectable medications
- X-rays (radiology services)
- Any service not included on the free services list
Student Health Services can be reached by calling (515) 271-7883. Regular hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Students with urgent health care needs can be seen from noon to 12:45 p.m., Monday through Friday on a first come, first-served basis. Students are encouraged to call ahead if possible to facilitate care during the noon hour.
