Medical Services (formerly Wardenburg Health Services) is the primary health care resource for CU 色吧亚洲 students. Through comprehensive care and education聽we strive to give students the skills and knowledge they need to develop healthy life-long habits.

Accreditation

Medical Services聽is accredited by the聽聽and our laboratory is accredited by the聽.听Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) offers integrated behavioral health services in Wardenburg Health Center and is accredited by the International Accreditation of Counseling Services (IACS).

History of Wardenburg Health Center

On a visit to the campus for homecoming ceremonies in 1955, when Frederick Wardenburg received an Alumni Recognition Award, he and his wife, Effie, expressed a desire to show their appreciation to the university. They presented the university with a gift of $1,000,000 intended to enlarge the student health facilities. On October 17, 1959, Fred and Effie Wardenburg 鈥� who met at CU as students (and graduated in 1900 and 1902, respectively) 鈥� attended the dedication of a student health center named in their honor. At the cornerstone-laying ceremony, Fred commented, 鈥淵ou might say this is just in appreciation of what we feel the university did in preparing us for a profession and bringing us together in a marriage that has lasted 55 years.鈥�

The new Wardenburg Health Center included an outpatient clinic, a 53-bed modern hospital, an emergency room, x-ray technology, a physical therapy department, and offices and exam rooms for eight physicians. It provided students with every medical service except major surgery, which was performed in 色吧亚洲 hospitals. A pharmacy, the Apothecary, was part of the UCHSC School of Pharmacy, and it provided prescription-filling services for students. A cafeteria on the first floor was popular with employees and other members of the university until it closed in the 1980s.

Over the years as the campus grew and student health needs evolved, so did Wardenburg Health Center鈥檚 services. Renovations turned the hospital and cafeteria into additional clinic space. Technological advancements were implemented 鈥� starting with basic computer systems leading up to digital radiography and electronic health records.

Today the health center is just one piece of a student health network which provides services to students across the campus. We have an additional location聽in the Wellness Suite at聽CU Recreation Center.