Providing Wellness for All

Supporting Students Holistically

To better support students who are often having to navigate the healthcare system by themselves for the first time, the new clinic will provide updated spaces and utilize a patient-based care model. This comprehensive approach includes everything from primary care to birth control, travel immunizations to mental health counseling. Unlike many clinics, this facility will have a primary care clinician that is able to decide when it’s appropriate to add on a nurse visit, vaccination appointment, mental health visit, or even dispense IV fluids under medical supervision—all during the same clinic visit.

The OSU Health Center includes both mental health and physical health services—both provided in the same size room, on the same corridors. This reduces the stigma of walking into a mental health clinic, ensuring students get the support they need, and makes it easier to refer patients back and forth.

Promoting Collaboration

The design features large multi-function staff space along the street front that supports greater collaboration between clinicians—including primary care physicians, OB/GYN physicians, nurse practitioners, and mental health professionals. A central break room also provides integration between all student health and community practice providers housed together within the facility. To support staff mental health, design strategies promoting health and wellness—including access to daylight—are prominent throughout these spaces.