Emergencies
Emergency Information
Hospitals, Emergency Room, and After Hours Care
Campus Health Services does not provide hospitalization services or emergency medical care. If you have a true medical emergency, please call 911.
Hospitals and Emergency Rooms:
In cases of imminent danger to self or others, please call 911 or ULPD.
If you are a UofL student in crisis or need to speak with someone urgently please call Counseling Center at 852-6585 M-F or walk-in between 9am and 4pm for an urgent consultation, and we will assign a clinician to speak with you as soon as possible.
Counseling Center
Student Activities Center
2100 South Floyd Street, W204
Louisville, KY 40292
If you are a UofL student and a crisis occurs when the Counseling Center is closed, you can use our after-hours crisis line by calling 852-6585, and select option 2 to speak to a crisis counselor right away. Our after-hours crisis hotline as well as other hotlines will connect you with a crisis counselor who is trained to help you work through your thoughts and feelings and provide follow-up resources. The other resources provided offer opportunities to connect you to local Louisville professionals that will help you identify facilities in which you can receive urgent and/or ongoing mental health care.
Crisis Lines
Hotlines & Additional Resources:
24/7 Adult Crisis Line: 502-589-4313 or 800-221-0446
This 24/7 hotline is a resource offered by Seven Counties Services, a local Louisville agency. Individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing can call using KY Relay at 711.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: call or text 988 OR 800-273-TALK (8255)
This 24/7 line is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.
Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741
Text from anywhere in the US to connect with a trained crisis counselor. Available 24/7.
The Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386
This 24/7 hotline is a resource specifically for youth ages 13 to 24 who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ).
- Emergency Psychiatry at University of Louisville Hospital: 502-562-3120
- UofL Department of Public Safety (ULPD): 502-852-6111
For more information regarding mental health services offered by Campus Health Services, please click here.
For exposures, call 502-852-6446
Procedure
Immediately following an exposure to blood or other body fluids, call 502-852-6446, 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week and a provider will assist you. Once it has been determined that an exposure has occurred, the source patient should be counseled by the attending physician or designee, consent obtained, and appropriate laboratories ordered. The health service cannot order studies on source patients who are hospitalized or in other health care institutions. These studies should be ordered by one of the source patient's physicians.
Purpose
In an effort to improve the delivery and follow up care of all UofL students, residents and staff who experience exposure to bloodborne pathogens, Campus Health Services (CHS) is the designated site for the evaluation and treatment for bloodborne pathogen exposures within the Health Sciences Center. CHS will provide all students, residents and staff with initial and follow up evaluations, risk determinations and treatment for bloodborne pathogen exposures in conjunction with infectious disease specialists if warranted.
Occupational Exposures Background
The primary method of preventing any occupationally acquired infection is through prevention. However, given the responsibilities and often hurried provisions of health care, it is anticipated that exposures will occur.
Most occupational exposures to HIV do not result in infection transmission, therefore potential toxicity related to the Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) must be considered. The average risk for HIV infection from all types of exposures to HIV-infected blood is 0.3% (approximately 1 in 250-300). This average combines the risk of all types of exposures meaning the 0.1% risk due to an exposure to a small volume of blood without the hollow bore vehicle to the larger risk associated with a high volume of percutaneous blood exposure with a large bore vehicle. Fortunately, the incidence of HIV has not been found to be prominent enough to warrant automatic PEP for all occupational exposures to blood.
Hepatitis C has become a major concern when evaluating blood borne pathogen exposures because the Louisville area has a low incidence of HIV and because all students, residents and staff are immunized against Hepatitis B. Many patients are unaware that they are infected with Hepatitis C and unfortunately, there are no recommendations regarding the treatment of Hepatitis C exposures. This may change when additional information is obtained through the CDC programs or other data collection sources.