WSU Intercollegiate College of Nursing Opens Clinic in Yakima

YAKIMA, Wash. — The Washington State University Intercollegiate College of Nursing in Yakima will open a student health care clinic Sept. 7 to serve the health care needs of students from WSU, Yakima Valley Community College and Central Washington University.

Located in the Deccio Building on the campus of YVCC, People’s Clinic Yakima will provide student health services for all students registered for classes through the three schools.

The clinic will be open from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Appointments are recommended and walk-ins are accepted. Call (509) 494-7921 for appointments. Services may include acute or “sick call” care, school or sports physicals, immunizations, male and female exams, physical assessments and selective on-site lab testing. Complex cases or advanced testing will be referred to three community clinics for physician follow-up if necessary.

WSU students will have no co-payment as they already pay a mandatory student health fee.  CWU students and YVCC students, faculty and staff will pay a $20 fee for a basic office visit.

 “There has not previously been a clinic to address the student health care needs of these three college campuses. The nearest CWU student health services are located on the main CWU campus in Ellensburg, roughly 38 miles from Yakima,” said Laura Hahn, coordinator of WSU Intercollegiate College of Nursing Central Washington. “The new clinic in the Deccio Building will provide convenient, consistent, high quality and confidential health care services for these college students.”

The clinic will be staffed by family nurse practitioners with assistance from graduate students (who are registered nurses) and pharmacy students from the Yakima campus.

The WSU Intercollegiate College of Nursing is committed to making health care accessible for those who need it most. Traditional, mobile and satellite clinics provide health care and related services to those in the communities where the college has faculty and students providing outreach services.

People’s Clinic Yakima will be the fourth health care clinic operated by the WSU Intercollegiate College of Nursing. Other clinics are located in Spokane. These nurse-managed community health care outreach efforts were established in Spokane in 1999 and are made possible through federal grants, corporate and individual donors, foundations, college and university allocations, student fees and essential community collaborations. 

Established in 1968, the WSU Intercollegiate College of Nursing is the nation’s first, oldest and most comprehensive nursing education consortium. Celebrating 35 years of world-class nursing education, the WSU Intercollegiate College of Nursing offers baccalaureate, graduate and professional development course work to nursing students enrolled through its four consortium partners: Eastern Washington University, Gonzaga University, WSU and Whitworth College. Each year the college educates approximately 700 graduate and upper-division undergraduate students and prepares more entry-level nurses than any other state educational institution.

For more information about the College of Nursing, visit the Web site at www.nursing.wsu.edu.