For more than a year, health practitioners in education have been faced with the question: How can you maintain a safe and healthy college campus during a pandemic as contagious as COVID? While elementary and high schools have their own challenges, universities with residential students...
On April 8, more than 500 Arcadia University community members took advantage of Rite Aid pharmacists visiting campus to administer the first of two Pfizer COVID vaccine shots.
Student Health Services (SHS) helped transform the Great Room -- which also serves as the surveillance testing...
Dear Arcadia Community,
With more cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) being confirmed around the world, the University wants to update the community on how the virus has impacted our academic and international programs.
Arcadia has cancelled Preview courses scheduled to travel to high-...
On Thursday, Jan. 9, Arcadia University's Department of Student Health Services will host the Southeastern Pennsylvania College Health Nurses Association (SPCHNA) Winter 2020 Conference from 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Mirror Room at Grey Towers Castle.
The purpose of the SPCHNA...
Student Health Services Director Kathy McGovern, MSN, CRNP and Assistant Director Theresa Smith, MSN, CRNP published “Proof of Immunity Requirements for Health Care Providers and Students: A Guide” in Consultant360, a multimedia platform for primary care professionals.
Over the past nine years...
Kathy McGovern, CRNP, director of Health Services, and Theresa Smith, CRNP, nurse at Health Services, published their joint research on the decrease in immunity to Hepatitis B over a 15-year period.
The study, which compared blood samples from volunteer Physician Assistant and...
