WSU faculty and staff will have access to appointments through the new Student Health Services Faculty/Staff Acute Care Clinic.Uninsured students will have access to lower cost services. WSU students will continue to have the same access to appointments at Student Health Services and can use their personal health insurance benefits or pay for services by other means.Symptomatic testing for COVID-19 requires an illness appointment with the SHS providers.While this option is still in effect, COVID testing can still be obtained at no additional charge through Student Health, by appointment only. Symptomatic, by appointment testing for COVID-19 may be provided by WSU Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory (MDL) while CARES funding and supplies last.Asymptomatic walk-in testing for COVID-19 will no longer be provided at SHS.While on-campus COVID-19 services will still be available, patients may become financially responsible for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations that were previously fully covered by federal/state funding during the public health emergency. What does this mean at Wichita State University?īeginning May 12, Student Health Services (SHS) will no longer support free COVID-19 walk-in testing or vaccinations for the WSU community. Federal and state government funded healthcare for COVID-19 will end. While COVID-19 is not gone, public health conditions have improved to a point where COVID is effectively being self-managed. Department of Health and Human Services let the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Declaration expire at the end of the day May 11, 2023. Based on current COVID-19 trends, the U.S.
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