Emergencies
Emergency Information
Hospitals, Emergency Room, Urgent Care Centers 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.
Urgent Care Centers
Urgent Care Centers are generally a cheaper alternative than the emergency room and frequently take less time to be seen and evaluated.
Family Community Clinic (Uninsured only)
Baptist Express Care - multiple locations inside of Wal-Mart
Hospitals and Emergency Rooms:
Norton Hospitals—Downtown, Audubon, Brownsboro and Women & Children's
If you believe that you have a psychiatric emergency, call 911 or go to the University of Louisville Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Room. UofL offers the only dedicated psychiatric emergency room in the region and provides excellent inpatient as well as referral services other facilities and services.
University of Louisville Hospital
Emergency Psychiatric Services
530 South Jackson Street
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 852-5866
For more information about UofL's Psychiatric Services, visit Uofl Health.
Crisis Lines
Seven Counties 24 hour Hope Now Hotline (502) 589-4313
Vet2Vet Hotline 1-877-VET2VET (838-2838)
Veteran's Crisis Line 1-800-273-8522
Graduate Crisis Line 1-800-GRAD-HLP (800-472-3457)
For more information regarding mental health services offered by Campus Health Services, please click here.
Are You the Victim of a Sexual Crime?
If you have experienced sexual assault, intimate partner violence or stalking, you can meet confidentially with an advocate at the University of Louisville's PEACC Center to discuss your options. PEACC staff are available during business hours in person, by phone or virtual meeting. Contact us at 502-852-2663 or peacc@louisville.edu to connect with an advocate. For services after hours, contact the Center for- Women and Families’ 24 hour crisis line at 844-237-2331 or ULPD at 852-6111 in the case of an emergency.
Follow these directions:
What to do if you have been forced to have sex without consent:
- Go someplace safe immediately.
- Do not change your clothes, shower, rinse your mouth or use the bathroom.
- Do not wash or destroy clothing or other physical evidence.
- Go to the police station or the University of Louisville hospital right away. Making a police report assures that the rape evidence collection kit will be paid for but it does not mean that you must file charges against a perpetrator.
- If you think you may have been given a "date rape drug" or any drug that has made you unconscious for a period of time - try to hold your urine until you have received medical attention. Many such drugs are only detected through urinalysis.
- If you are a University of Louisville student/staff/faculty call the University of Louisville PEACC Program at 852-2663 for assistance.
- You can call the Center for Women and Families Rape Crisis Program, 24 hours a day / 7 days a week to speak to an advocate: (502) 581-7200 or (877) 803-7577 (toll free).
- If the assault took place on the University of Louisville Campus, you can call the Department of Public Safety, 852-6111.
- If the assault took place off campus, you can call 911 and you will be asked if the crime occurred in Louisville or Jefferson County.
- Go to University of Louisville Hospital for a physical exam immediately, so that you can be examined for physical injury, possible contact with sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy. At this time, evidence can be retrieved from your body and/or clothing. (Even if the assault was not recent, it is important for all victims of sexual assault to be examined by a medical professional.)
- If you have changed the clothes you were wearing at the time, bring them to the hospital in a paper, not plastic bag. If you are still wearing the clothes, bring a change of clothing to the hospital with you.
- Evidence from a sexual assault can be held for up to 30 days by law enforcement, while you decide whether to prosecute.
- Seeking medical attention does not mean you will be forced to talk to police or cooperate with criminal prosecution.
- Write down all details of the incident soon afterward and store in a safe place.
What are Emergency Contraceptive Pills (ECP)?
ECP are a safe, effective method of birth control that prevent pregnancy after sex. You can start ECP up to 5 days after unprotected sex, however:
- ECP are more effective the sooner after sex they are taken.
- ECP will NOT work if you are already pregnant.
When do I use ECP? (Also called “Morning After Pills”)
ECP can be used if you had unprotected sex in the past five days. Use ECP if:
- You didn’t use any birth control.
- The condom broke.
- You missed 2 or more birth control pills or started your pack late.
- Your diaphragm slipped.
- You missed your birth control shot.
- You were forced to have sex. If this occurred, we strongly recommend that you seek immediate care from PEACC Program at 852-7014 and Campus Health Services.
How do ECP work?
ECP are not abortion pills. They will not work if you are already pregnant. ECP prevent pregnancy by: Temporarily stopping an egg from being released, or stopping fertilization of the egg, or stopping a fertilized egg from attaching.
How do I take ECP?
Take the first dose of emergency contraception as soon as possible within five (5) days after unprotected sex – and the sooner the better. Take the second dose 12 hours later. Keep a packet of ECP on hand to use when you (or a friend) need them. ECP do NOT protect against sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
Are there side effects?
ECP make some patients feel sick to their stomach or vomit. Some patients may have sore breasts or headaches. These side effects last about one day. ECP can also cause some menstrual periods to come a little early or late. They do not affect a woman’s ability to become pregnant in the future.
How do I get ECP?
ECP is available at most pharamacies without a prescription. Campus Health Services also has ECP available for purchase at Cardinal Station Health Center. Please contact the Cardinal Station Health Office to schedule a visit for ECP.
Cardinal Station Office (502)-852-6479
Health Sciences Center (502)-852-6446
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.