Appointments
Try our new online appointment scheduler on the Student Health Portal.
For an appointment with the student health center, please call 817-257-7940 to speak with a nurse to make an appointment. For sexual health appointments, call 817-257-4624.
If a nurse is unavailable to take your call, please leave the following information in a voice message:
- Your name.
- Your TCU ID number.
- The best phone number for us to call you back.
- When you will be available to take the call.
Our nurses return every voicemail with this information by 5PM on weekdays. Please leave one message with all of the above information on our voicemail, and we will call you back in the order the messages are received.
Important Updates
988
988 is now designated as the three-digit dialing code routing callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
988 offers 24/7 access to trained crisis counselors who can help people experiencing mental health-related distress. That could be:
- Thoughts of suicide
- Mental health or substance use crisis, or
- Any other kind of emotion distress
People can call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org for themselves or if they are worried about a loved one who may need crisis support.
988 serves as a universal entry point so that no matter where you live in the United States, you can reach a trained crisis counselor who can help.
817-257-SAFE (7233)
The TCU Counseling and Mental Health Center has a 24/7 counseling helpline that offers telephone counseling to all TCU students anytime, day or night, and even during semester breaks. Students can call the helpline at any time (even when Center is open) to speak with a trained counselor who is familiar with the resources at TCU . If you feel the need to talk with a counselor, please call 817-257-7233. Read more.
Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus. Monkeypox virus is part of the same family of viruses that causes smallpox. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, but milder, and monkeypox is rarely fatal. Monkeypox is not related to chickenpox.
U.S. monkeypox cases are very rare. Monkeypox does not occur naturally in the United States, but cases have happened that were associated with international travel or importing animals from areas where the disease is more common.
The CDC is tracking multiple clusters of monkeypox that have been reported in early- to mid-May in several countries that do not normally report monkeypox, including in Europe and North America.
When to Get a COVID-19 Test
- If you have COVID-19 symptoms
- At least 5 days after known or suspected close contact to COVID-19
- For screening (schools, workplaces, congregate settings, etc.)
- Before and after travel
- When asked by a healthcare professional or public health official
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The Health Center is currently giving Pfizer COVID vaccinations (including booster doses) to individuals 12 and older.
- We will not be offering vaccines to the pediatric age group 5-11 year olds.
- We offer COVID vaccines M-F from 9:30am-12pm and 1pm-3:30pm.
- No appointment is necessary.
- All other health center visits are by appointment only.