Health and Counseling
Sterling College Health Services provides professional care in a friendly and caring manner.
Location
Campus Health Office (Inside the Student Union)
125 W. Cooper
Sterling, Kansas 67579
Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday – Closed Wednesdays
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
- Prescheduled appointments are available when appropriate.
- Medical consultant: Dr. Mark Reed
- With a few exceptions, treatment is free to all Sterling College students.
- Sterling Health Center will work with student’s family doctor with approval of our Medical Consultant.
- Equipment Loans: crutches, slings, heating pads, vaporizers
- Referral of students as needed or requested. Sterling College Health Services is a nurse-directed health service. Students are referred to doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dentists, optometrists, and other medical personnel as needed or requested.
- Educational references available.
AED (Automated External Defibrillator) locations on campus:
- Student Union (by student life office)
- Cooper Hall (3rd floor)
- Mabee library (in office behind main check in area)
- Kelsey Hall (across from registrar window)
- Thompson Hall (in lobby on south side of pillar)
- Spencer Hall/Culbertson (in main lobby by water fountain)
- Gleason (in hallway outside gym entrances)
- Wilson Hall (west entrance inside main room)
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Indoor practice facility- north west entrance by water fountain
FOR EMERGENCY dial from campus phone 911
For more information contact:
Dana Ely RN, BSN
Campus Health Director
Phone: 620-278-4505, toll free 1-800-346-1017 ext. 505
Email: dana.ely@sterling.edu or nurse@sterling.edu
Local Health Care.
- Sterling Medical Center
239 N Broadway
Sterling, KS
(620) 278-2123
- Lyons Medical Center
1221 Noble Pl
Lyons, KS
(620) 257-5124
- Hutchinson Clinic 2101 N Waldron
Hutchinson, KS
(620) 669-2500
- PrairieStar
2700 E 30th
Hutchinson, KS
(620) 663-8484
- Xpress Wellness Urgent Care
1805 1/2 E 17th
Hutchinson, KS
(620) 615-7197
Emergency Care. Emergency services are provided by Rice County Emergency Services by dialing 911.
- Rice county District Hospital
619 S Clark
Lyons, KS 620)
257-5173
- Hutchinson Regional Medical Center
1701 E 23rd
Hutchinson, KS
(620) 665-2000
Reporting Accidents. All accidents should be reported to a Resident Assistant or Resident Director as soon as possible.
Vaccination Requirements:
- Kansas law requires all incoming students residing in student housing to be vaccinated for meningitis or to sign a waiver. The risks of meningitis can be found at