Services Offered
No-Cost and Low-Cost Services
Student Health Services provides Cal Poly Pomona students with affordable, accessible and high-quality health care. Most services are covered by the mandatory student health fee already included in tuition payments.
Types of Services
- Unlimited appointments made online, by phone, or in person with licensed & board-certified clinicians, nurses and physician assistants
- Digital X-Rays
- Travel consultations
- Well-patient physicals (1 per academic enrollment; cost of some lab work may be extra)
- Minor surgical procedures (removal of warts, cysts, moles; suturing; repair of ingrown toenail, etc.)
- Well-Womxn Exam
- Wraps, braces, slings, crutches, etc.
- Generic Tylenol through the pharmacy
- Flu Shots
- Tdap vaccine
- Tuberculosis screening
- Common STI/STD testing (Gonorrhea, syphilis, Chlamydia)
- Medication Abortion (call 909-869-4000 to make an appointment)
- Prescription medications can be filled at our on-site pharmacy. By request, prescriptions can be printed and given to patients to be filled at an outside pharmacy at their own expense.
- Common non-prescription drug store items through the pharmacy
- Biopsied tissue
- Laboratory tests, including Pap and Cholesterol, sent to an outside lab
- Copies of medical records
- Wraps, braces, slings, crutches
- HIV Testing (expect on Tuesdays)
- All immunizations except Tdap
| Lab Test | Explanation | Approximate Processing Time |
| CDC w/AutoDiff | Complete blood count | 20-30 minutes |
| Chlamydia | 7 - 9 working days | |
| Glucose, Whole Blood | Detects sugar level in blood | 15-30 minutes |
| Influenza A/B | Checks for 2 strains of the seasonal flu | 45-60 minutes |
| KOH | Skin scraping to test for yeast and fungi | 45-60 minutes |
| Manual Differential | Examines cells in the blood | 30-45 minutes |
| Microscopic Exam-Direct | 20-30 minutes | |
| Microscopic Urinalysis | 20-30 minutes | |
| Mono Test | Tests for Mononucleosis | 20-30 minutes |
| N.gonorrhoeae | 5 working days | |
| Nasal Smear for Eosinophils | Test for allergy | 30-45 minutes |
| Occult Blood 1, 2 or 3 | Test for blood in the stool | 20-30 minutes |
| Pinworm Exam | 20-30 minutes | |
| Pregnancy Test | Examines urine | 10-15 minutes |
| Rapid Strep | Determines strep throat | 20-30 minutes |
| RPR | Test for syphilis | Once per week on Friday |
| Sedimentation Rate, Manual | Test for inflammation | 1 hour |
| Stool for Polys | Test for white blood cell count | 20-30 minutes |
| Strep Screen | 24 hours | |
| Urinalysis Culture & Colony Count | 24 to 48 hours | |
| Urinalysis Screen | 15-20 minutes | |
| Wet Mount | Test for yeast, trichomonas, fungi and clue cells | 15-20 minutes |