Answers to your Students’ Questions about the McKinley Health Center
McKinley Health Center Services
The McKinley Health Center fees and services are totally separate from the Student Health Insurance. The mandatory health service fee allows students access to services at McKinley Health Center and the Counseling Center.
McKinley Health Center
- Open every day except Sunday
- Most services are covered under the health service fee. There is a co-pay with prescriptions, and for some immunizations.
- Has laboratory, radiology, and sonogram on site.
- Every student is assigned a primary care provider when they first pay the McKinley fee. Primary providers can be viewed and changed at MyMcKinley located on the McKinley website.
- Health Resource Room has free over the counter self-care supplies
- Women's Health, Mental Health, and Health Education departments
- Travel & Immunizations services
Pharmacy
- Prescriptions with minimal co-pay
- Open on Saturdays
- Can bring prescriptions from other doctors
- Can pay using student account
- Can renew prescriptions online
Dial a Nurse (217-333-2700)
- A healthcare professional helps coordinate your healthcare needs and answer your questions.
- This service is available 24/7.
OASIS at the Illini Union, Room 40
- Health Resource Room has free over the counter self-care supplies
- SportWell services include a dietician, fitness educator, physical therapy and athletic training services
- Relaxation Room – FREE to UI students, $5 for faculty/staff
Website www.mckinley.illinois.edu
- More than 300 health related resources on web
- Portal - MyMcKinley - allows students to schedule appointments, renew prescriptions, change their primary care provider, and view test results online.
- Provides health news and updates important to students on campus
- Online services such as relaxation web exercises, birth control class, downloadable forms, and more
How Students get Access to McKinley and its Services
- Register: The McKinley fee is a required fee, and is assessed automatically of all students registered for more than 3 hours in the summer or 6 hours in the fall and spring terms.
- Pay the fee: Students enrolled for less than 3 hours in the summer or 6 hours in the fall and spring terms, may pay the McKinley fee at the Health Center in order to access the centers and their services for that semester.
- If you are not now enrolled, but were the previous semester, you may also gain access to McKinley services by paying a slightly higher fee. This can be done only for the semester following a semester in which you were enrolled, but you may do it after every semester you are not enrolled that follows a semester in which you were enrolled. For example, if a student is enrolled every spring and not enrolled every summer, they may pay the fee to gain services every summer. However if they then never enrolled in the fall semester, they could not pay the fee to gain services for the fall semester.
- Have your student spouse pay your fee: Graduate students may pay an additional fee to allow their spouses to use these services also.
Students eligible to pay the McKinley fee to access services may pay the fee at any time during the semester, and use the services that same day.
McKinley for Staff
Can use relaxation room at the OASIS for $5 fee
Travel & Immunizations advising is free
Flu shots and other immunizations are available for a fee
Can contact Jennifer Carson for McKinley Healthcare Guide booklets and Dial A Nurse reminder magnets.
Incoming Students
Immunization requirements form
Records due to McKinley by July 1
After that holds are placed
Holds are removed within 24 hours of receiving records