Urgent Care Clinic services are available on a walk-in basis for ill or injured students.
Summer Hours
Our hours have changed for the summer. Click here for more information.
Regular Hours
Our regular hours (Fall/Winter/Spring) have changed. Click here for more information.
What to Do When You're Sick
DURING THE DAY
The Triage Nurse screens patients to determine the severity of their
condition and direct them to the appropriate level of care. S/he will expedite your visit and help you get an appointment if that is appropriate. A Triage Nurse is on duty Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. when the Health Center is open. The Triage Nurse is not available on Saturdays or during the Summer Quarter.
As with any walk-in service, at times there may be a long wait. Lunch times and late afternoon are our busiest times, so if you can come earlier in the day, there is usually a shorter wait. Students who are severely ill or injured will be seen first.
AFTER HOURS
If you need to obtain medical care when we are closed, you can choose from various Urgent Care facilities or the Dominican Hospital Emergency Room.
Please be aware your insurance may not cover those facilities unless it is truly an emergency. Unless an illness comes on very rapidly and severely, you are probably better served by coming to the Student Health Center when we are open.
If you do visit another facility and are told to follow up with us, please ask that facility to give you or fax ((831) 459-3546) us the records of that visit. Also, if you have UCSC student insurance (i.e., UHIP, GSHIP), you will want to contact the insurance office at 459.2389 or insure@ucsc.edu so they can help you with any bills you may incur.
If you require transportation, you could either call a taxi
or use your student ID to take one of the metro buses passing
by the facility. Routes listed below in bold can be taken from
the UCSC campus. For more information about the metro bus, see
the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District web site.
Santa Cruz
Urgent Care Westside
1203 Mission Street (corner of Mission St. & Laurel)
(831) 458-6310
9 AM - 9 PM, M - F
9 AM - 6 PM, S/S
Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas
Metro Routes: 13, 15, 16, 12
Doctors on Duty
615 Ocean Street (next to UC INN)
(831) 425-7991
8 AM - 8 PM daily
Metro Routes: 22, 8, 36, 25
Urgent Care Santa Cruz
2025 Soquel Avenue (across from Jeffery's Restaurant)
(831) 458-5537
8 AM - 9 PM daily
Metro Routes: 69, 69A, 69W, 69N, 71
Dominican Hospital Emergency
Room
1555 Soquel Drive
(831) 462-7710
24 hours daily
Metro Routes: 70, 61, 63, 71
Scotts Valley
Urgent Care Scotts Valley
4615 Scotts Valley Road
(831) 458-6335
9 AM - 9 PM. M - F
9 AM - 6 PM, S/S
Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas
Metro Routes: 30, 31, 36
Doctors on Duty
223 Mt. Hermon Road (Graham Plaza Center)
(831) 438-7555
8 AM - 8 PM -- Closed Sundays
Metro Routes:
Aptos
Doctors on Duty
6800 Soquel Drive (Near Cabrillo College)
(831) 662-3611
8 AM - 8 PM
Metro Routes: 54, 69W, 69N, 71