Emergency

"What do we do if we need medical help when the Health Center is closed?"

We are asked this often by students.

For After Hours and Weekend Non-Urgent Medical Needs:

If you become ill or injured when the Health Center is closed, your resident assistant (R.A.) or resident director (R.D.) can give you first-aid supplies or help you get to a local health facility. The following facilities are available to you:

The Med Center

  • 2954 State Street
  • Phone: 682.7411
  • Hours: Monday - Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
  • Open Sundays and holidays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
  • No appointment necessary.
  • Bring your Primary Insurance Card and/or the *Westmont Insurance Card.

Urgent Care Center

51 Hitchcock Rd

Phone: 805-563-6110

Hours: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Open Saturdays: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Open Sundays: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

No appointment necessary

Closed most Holidays

 

 

Cottage Hospital Emergency Room

  • Pueblo at Bath Street
  • Phone: 682.7111, ext. 2421
  • Hours: Sunday - Saturday, 24 hours a day.
  • No appointment necessary.
  • Bring your Primary Insurance Card (insurance from home) and/or your *Westmont Insurance Card.

* If you do not have a Westmont Insurance card, follow the link found on the Insurance Info page to print one up.

 

Life-Threatening Emergencies:

Call 911

State the problem and your exact location when you call 911.

 

Other options available to you;

If you want to see a doctor before the Health Center opens, check with your primary insurance, that is your insurance from home, and see what medical costs will be covered. You may also use the Westmont Health Insurance as supplemental coverage. If you do not have any insurance from home, you may use the Westmont Health Insurance on it's own. While it provides some coverage, it may not provide full coverage. You may visit the student insurance website found on the Insurance Info page.

If you do visit a health facility off hours and you do not have any insurance information with you, be sure to identify yourself as a Westmont student. Let the Health Center know about your visit as soon as possible. A claim form will need to be filled out and sent either to the health facility you went to or to the insurance company. The insurance company will not make a payment without this claim. You may also come by the Health Center to pick up an insurance brochure which includes this school year's policy id card.