After-Hours Care

After-Hours and Off-Campus Care

For Urgent or Emergent Issues Only

If you need urgent medical attention that can not wait until normal business hours, please have our after-hours care provider paged at Hahnemann Family Health Center of Worcester, at 508-334-8830 and identify yourself as a WPI student. The doctor on call will return your call as soon as possible.

If there is a life-threatening emergency or if a student is too sick to make necessary arrangements or needs physical assistance, please contact Campus Police at 508-831-5433 and an officer will respond to the student's location and request an ambulance if warranted. Students with serious illnesses and injuries will be transported to a local hospital via ambulance. The ambulance fee will be the responsibility of the student. To report off-campus emergencies, call 911.

What is an emergent or urgent issue?

Emergencies	Urgent Care	Routine
Loss of consciousness	Worsening concussion	Headache
Severe pain	Consistent pain from existing issue	Improving, but persistent pain
Difficulty breathing	Worsening asthma symptoms - responding well to inhaler	Cough without fever
Chest pain	Injury to chest area	Heartburn, pulled muscle, rib bruise
Uncontrollable bleeding or severe burns	Deep cut that might need stitches or tetanus shot	Minor cuts, scrapes, burns that don't blister
Alcohol poisoning or drug overdose	Alcohol or drug addiction in sober person
Allergic reaction	Rash	Seasonal allergies
Fractures or Dislocations	Concussion	Sprains/Strains
Numbness, bluing of extremity	Painful redness of extremity	Cuts, scrapes, small bruises
Loss of vision	Redness & constant discharge from eye	Minor itching & redness of eye
Inability to drink fluids >24hrs	Nausea, Vomiting, Abdominal pain	Stomach bugs
Someone who is a danger to self or others	Severe anxiety or depression	Stress, sleep issues, fatigue
Fever >103 not responding to acetaminophen	Fever >100.4 persistent >48hr	Temperature <100.4
Inability to swallow, talk or manage saliva	Sore throat w fever >100.4 degrees C	Minor sore throats, colds, ear aches
Sexual assault	Emergency contraception	Sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy tests

Request for Transportation from the Hospital

When a student is ready to return to campus from a Worcester area hospital after an injury or accident that required hospital transport, the student should call Campus Police at 508-831-5433. The student is responsible for any payment which is not covered by their health insurance policy.

Transportation to Medical Appointments Off-Campus

Students are responsible for arranging for transportation and costs associated with their healthcare. In rare instances, the Medical Transport Committee, composed of representatives of Health Services and Accessibility Services, may deem it necessary for Campus Police to provide local area transportation to medical appointments.