After-Hours Care Gap in Campus Housing refers to the structural absence of clinical support once a campus health center's weekday daytime hours end, typically around 5pm, leaving Resident Assistants and Residence Hall Directors as the default first responders for the roughly eighteen hours a day, on average, when the center is closed.
Closing the gap doesn't require adding clinical headcount to an already-stretched housing budget, it's a business case an Executive Director can bring to a VP of Student Affairs using utilization data. Learn more about the fourth model and how the OnMed CareStation® is the campus health strategy that most universities are missing.
Most campus health centers operate weekday daytime hours only, typically ending around 5pm, leaving a substantial after-hours and weekend gap in clinical coverage.
In most cases, live-in residence life staff, Resident Assistants and Residence Hall Directors, become the default first response, despite having no clinical training.
Not necessarily. On-site, licensed clinical access can extend coverage across residence halls without adding clinical headcount to a housing department's operating budget. It gives RHDs and RAs professional clinical backup instead of sole responsibility for the judgment call.
Every term here points to the same gap in healthcare access. See how the CareStation closes it.
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