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Darren Aaron elected vice president of the American College Health Association

Darren Aaron, Student Health Service associate director and Wake Forest EMS advisor, has been elected vice president of the American College Health Association (ACHA), the nation’s principal leadership organization for advancing the health of college students and campus communities through advocacy, education and research. Aaron has been recognized for his outstanding leadership, professional skills and representation of Wake Forest. Headshot of Darren Aaron, Student Health Service associate director and Wake Forest EMS advisor

ACHA represents over 800 institutions of higher education and serves the collective health and wellness needs of 20 million college students and nearly 5,500 higher education health professionals. Its leaders advocate for the health and wellness of campus communities and play a critical role in helping shape the future of the association and the field of college health. Read more

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Student Health Service making temporary move

This is a guest post from the Student Health Service:

After 16 years, the George C. Mackie Student Health Clinic is getting a major upgrade.

The crepe myrtles are in bloom outside of the student health building on the campus of Wake Forest University.

As part of the Reynolds Gymnasium renovation project, the Student Health Service will be temporarily relocated while their new clinic is being built.  The new clinic should be open in fall 2017.

Student Health will close its existing clinic doors on Thursday, May 5.  On Tuesday, May 24, Student Health will operate out of a modular clinic on North campus, Lot Q, near Dogwood Residence Hall.  This modular clinic was custom designed and built to allow Student Health to continue to offer the services that our Wake Forest Student need.  Student Health will be open in time for both summer sessions and operate on their normal summer schedule seeing patients from 8:30 – noon and 1:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. Monday – Friday.  Appointments can continued to be made online, through the patient portal, accessible via the student health website shs.wfu.edu.

Typically, summer volume at Student Health is much lower than during the academic year.  This will afford the clinic a couple of months to fine tune policies, protocols and procedures to ensure efficiency in the fall.

In the fall, clinic, pharmacy, lab, psychiatric and case management resources will not be impacted.  Student Health will have clinic hours during the weekdays and a nurse will be on site (with a physician on call) after hours and on weekends.  Telephone numbers for the clinic will not change.  We invite all students, faculty and staff to come see our temporary space and say hello anytime this summer.  If you have any questions please contact Darren Aaron, Associate Director, SHS ataarondo@wfu.edu.

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September 2015 staff milestones

See a list of staff milestones for September 2015:

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Categories: Staff News

Aaron receives American College Health Association award

aaronDarren Oliver Aaron, associate director of Wake Forest University Student Health Service, has been selected as the recipient for the American College Health Association (ACHA) Affiliate New Professionals Award for 2015. The award recognizes ACHA members who have provided service to the field of college health for five years or less and who have made significant contributions to their institution.

The award was presented during the Awards and Fellows Dinner at ACHA’s annual meeting in Orlando on May 28.

This spring, Aaron was presented a Faculty/Staff Service Excellence Award from the Pro Humanitate Institute and was named Advisor of the Year 2015 by the Office of the Dean of Students. Both awards were for his work and engagement as an EMT and advisor for Wake Forest Emergency Medical Services.

Aaron is an alumnus of Virginia Commonwealth University where he was a business management and administration major. He earned his Master of Science in Health Administration from The Medical College of Virginia/VCU.

Categories: Staff News

Secure, speedy and smart access to records at SHS

Lynn Crouse uses the thin client terminal.

Lynn Crouse uses the thin client terminal.

A piece of equipment the size of a computer external hard drive allows doctors nurses and other clinical staff at Student Health Service to quickly and efficiently treat more students. Called a thin client, this equipment allows users with a special smart card to not only speed up access to health records, but also keep them more secure.

“If we save 8-10 minutes per student, we can treat more of them,” Darren Aaron, associate director of Student Health Service said. “That’s especially important during flu season when we have a wave of students needing attention.”

Student Health Service uses thin clients to connect all 11 exam rooms and administration areas of the center to servers off-site.  Although thin clients look like external hard drives, they have no moving parts to wear out. So these affordable units are expected to last about 10 years. Read more

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