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Expanded Services at Health Center H ave you checked up on the USO student health center recently? Last year, the center expanded both its physical location and its services under Dr. Regina Fleming, the center's director and its first full-time physician. This year it's again expanding services, this time to employees who need basic nursing services such as blood pressure checks, immuniza- tions, simple first-aid and treatment of non- urgent illnesses. Employees can be seen for these types of simple services for $5 per visit. Because the health center's primary focus is on stu- dents, however, if staff determines that an employee needs antibiotics, other prescrip- tions or more extensive care, the employee must seek follow-up appointments with his or her own primary care physician.

SEA Snippets The following issues were discussed at the April meeting of the Staff Employees Association: • The SEA is accepting nominations from staff members for the Administrator of the Year Award, which will be given out at the employee picnic on June 24. Administrators must have been a full-time administrator for five years, show dedication to the department and USD's values and mission, promote staff leadership and development and demonstrate a strong working relation with others. Nominations can be sent to Perla Bleisch in Warren Hall, Room 218 by May 9. • The SEA voted to donate $150 in movie tickets and campus cards as door prizes for the employee picnic. • Tickets are available at the Hahn University Center box office for two Padres games. Employees can buy tickets for the June 3 or Sept. 16 games at a discounted price of $16. Students will be able to purchase tick- ets for $18 beginning three weeks before each game. SEA meetings are open to all employees, especially staff. The next SEA meeting is at 2 p.m., May 11, in the Hahn University Center, Room 103.

year Fleming says the center sees an average of 50 people a day. Employees can make an appointment by calling the health center at ext. 4595, or they may walk in during regular hours. For the remainder of the semester, health center hours are: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays; 8-11 :30 a.m. and 1:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesdays; and 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. Fridays. Bike to Work Day Need a break from the high gas prices, the . long commute to work or the frustrating search for campus parking? Break the cycle and cycle to work.

Bike to Work Day 2005 is May 20, and USO is one of the pit stops for thousands of San Diegans who are expected to bike, run, walk, carpool or take public transportation to work. Snacks will be served to participants from 6-9 a.m., in front of the Degheri Alumni Center, by members of USD's Fresh Air Commuter Club, who are dedicated to regu- larly taking public transportation to work. For more information about Bike to Work Day, log on to www.ridelink.org/bicycle.html or www.keepsandiegomoving.com. Through the Fresh Air Commuter Club, which was founded in 1996 by employees to promote the use of alternative transportation, USO offers what's called a fresh air parking permit. This permit, available through the parking services office, is free and allows employees, who typically bike, walk, carpool or take alternative transportation to work, to park on campus 16 days per semester - which works out to about once a week. To sign up, go to the parking services office, in the Hahn Administration Center, Room 150.

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Regina Fleming "We realized there are a lot of things employees needed, like blood pressure checks, that we could easily take care of here," Fleming says. "It makes sense for us to have simple nursing services like this available, without jeopardizing our care of students." The renovated center - in Camino Hall, Room 161 - doubled the clinical space and allowed staff to begin offering additional services to students, including physicals for students studying abroad, immunizations and general lab tests and prescriptions. Students last year only came in for an estimated 5,000 visits, but this

reconstructed by June 1, and then con- struction will begin on the Serra Hall side. The project is expected to be com- pleted by Aug. 15. - Roger Manion Assistant Vice President of Facilities Management