Word: shac
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...writing this letter in response to Nancy Raine Reyes's recent editorial on the University Health Services ("Harvard's Health Crisis, Opinion, Dec. 14, 1994). We do not intend to argue with Ms. Reyes's assertions about UHS. As members of the Student Health Advisory Council (SHAC), it is our job to facilitate interaction between students and UHS. Ms. Reyes's points are certainly alarming and are currently being investigated. However, we believe many students simply do not understand how the University health care system is set up and therefore are unable to utilize its facilities effectively...
...patient's chief ally in addressing any issues relating to their individual care. If students want their comments or complaints handled confidentially by their fellow students, they can submit written responses to the student response box located on the first floor of UHS. A student patient advocate from SHAC will respond to the comment within 24 hours and will and will assist in whatever manner is appropriate...
Despite all the negative rumors that abound, UGHS still exists to provide the highest quality of health care for students. We hope to continue opening the lines of communication between students and the UHS. To further this end, SHAC will be holding a series of informal meeting with the Director of UHS, Dr. David S. Rosenthal '59, in the spring so that students, can discuss their concerns about UHS with...
...responsive to the concerns of its community. The Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) is one way to make students' concerns heard: UHS also has a Patient Advocate to investigate complaints. Unfortunately for UHS, it is all too trendy nowadays to publicly create and decry the ineptitude of our health service, and in an even greater leap of logic, to cast it as mirroring a general health care crisis in the United States...
...while SHAC was originally conceived of as a "sounding board between students and UHS, it evolved into a health awareness organization," Parikh says...