• Meagan L. Grega, M.D., is available Monday morning (9-11:45am) and Thursday afternoon (1 - 4pm) at the Bailey Health Center to provide gynecological services for our female students. Appointments can be made by calling extension 5001 or by stopping at the Health Center front desk.
  
  This is a full gynecological service including routine yearly examinations with pap smear, screening and treatment of STDs, birth control counseling and prescriptions, the "morning after pill," and confidential treatment of any other related female problem.

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• Information Regarding Routine Pelvic Exams
  It is important to refrain from sexual intercourse, douching, and any intravaginal medications for at least 48 hours before your exam. When you schedule your appointment, please indicate to the secretary or nurse if this is a repeat yearly exam, your first exam and/or you have a particularly urgent problem.

Meagan L. Grega, M.D will perform the physical examination and one of the health center nurses will assist her. The physical examination is free. There is a $35 lab fee for processing and reviewing the pap smear slides. This $35 fee is due at time of exam OR it can be submitted to your insurance company. (However, when submitted to your insurance, it will no longer be confidential). If your pap smear is abnormal and requires a pathologist's review, there will be an additional $25 fee. It takes approximately two weeks for us to receive the results of your pap smear. We will notify you with the results.

All sexually active women are encouraged to have a cotton swab culture of the cervix to check for chlamydia and gonorrhea. Both diseases can be completely without symptoms and untreated chlamydia is the number one cause of infertility in this country. The cost of these tests is $30 at the time of your exam.

For those who desire a confidential HIV (AIDS) test, it is available at a discounted fee of $11. Orasure Quick HIV Test is $23. Ask the physician privately in her office following the completion of your examination.

To provide more privacy, all pelvic exams are performed on the second floor of the Bailey Health Center facing McCartney Street.  

Dr. Jeffrey E. Goldstein is the team physician for our 21 varsity sports. He is board certified in Emergency medicine with added training in sports medicine. He sees athletes referred to him by the athletic training staff, as well as any other Lafayette student with an athletic injury.

Varsity athletes receive their physiotherapy in our new athletic training room in the Kirby Sports Center. The college has three full-time certified athletic trainers and two athletic training interns. Matthew Bayly is head athletic trainer and is assisted by Dawn Comp.

Carl Weiss, M.D. is the community based orthopedic team surgeon. He attends most home and away football games and home basketball games. Dr. Weiss holds a free weekly orthopedic clinic for varsity athletes. The injured players are attended to by the Lafayette Sports Medicine staff at the clinics. This team approach allows athletes to return quickly and safely to their sport.

The Health Center staff will administer allergy injections and store vaccines at no cost. We ask that students follow the schedule laid out by their allergist. Allergy shots are given Monday through Friday from 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. when the doctor is physically present in the office. All students are requested to remain in the center for 30 minutes after their injection(s).

The Health Center has all the necessary equipment and medications to handle any unexpected allergic reaction.

Confidential and anonymous HIV testing is available at the Health Center. The Health Center offers the rapid orasure test for a $23.00 charge and a simple blood HIV test for $11.00

Simply come to the Health Center and mark the reason for the visit as "confidential". When the nurse or physician sees you, express your desire for an HIV test. We will also try to answer any questions you have concerning HIV and other STD's.

Students enrolled at Lafayette College will not be allowed access to college owned housing without the following documentation:
1. Meningococcal Vaccine- Pennsylvania state law mandates that ALL college students living on campus receive this vaccine
2. MMR vaccine(measles, mumps, rubella)- two doses 28 days apart
3. Varicella vaccine (chicken pox)- 2 doses of the vaccine or documentation of past disease or reactive titer test
4. Tetanus-Diptheria-Pertussis (DPT) –primary series with Tdap booster within 10 years
5. Polio Vaccine – completion of primary series
6. Hepatitis B series – three doses of vaccine

A PPD is required of persons at high risk for Tuberculosis as defined by the Center for Disease Control:
1. International students from high prevalence countries
2. Person with compromised immune systems
3. Close contact with people that have the infection
4. Health care workers

Travel Medicine

The Health Center provides consulting services to students that will be traveling abroad in order to minimize the risk of exposure to serious infectious diseases. Additional vaccines and certain medications are often recommended to students that will be traveling to countries where diseases are prevalent.