Medical Services

Macalester College has established immunization requirements for its students to maintain the health and safety of our community.

Students can enter immunization information in the patient portal. If students have questions or concerns they can call the Hamre Center at 651-696-6275.

• Tdap (Tetanus) booster in the last 10 years
• 2 MMR’s (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) first one given after age 1
• Meningitis Quadrivalent–after the age of 16
• TB (Tuberculosis) Screen form needs to be completed online in the Macalester Patient Portal

Medical/Non-medical exemption form

• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• HPV
• Meningitis B
• Polio
• Varicella

1. Go to Macalester Patient Portal.
2. Enter your Macalester username.
3. Enter your Macalester password—it’s the same password you use to log into 1600grand.

This list provides a general overview of the services that we offer.

Any degree-seeking, registered Macalester student may use our services, not just those on the United Healthcare Student Resource (UHCSR) insurance offered by Macalester. We do not see faculty, staff, or alumni.

Absolutely. See our Gender Affirming Care page for more information.

Emergency contraception is available at the Hamre Center and at a vending machine in the Leonard Center. We have two brands available to you, Plan B and Ella. These are also known as the morning after pill. You can pick up Plan B without an appointment or prescription from a medical provider by stopping by our front desk during business hours and/or you can find it in the vending machine in the Leonard Center across from the athletic classrooms. The cost of Plan B from the vending machine is $18. Ella requires a medical prescription and an appointment. For Ella, call our office at 651.696.6275 to schedule an appointment. If you are on the Macalester-offered United Healthcare Student Resources insurance and you are going through the Hamre Center, there is no charge for either brand. If you are not on the Macalester student health insurance, the cost for Plan B and/or Ella is $15.

If you require EC outside of office hours it is available to any person 17 or over, of any gender, without a prescription from local pharmacies.

There is no charge to see a medical provider. Physicals that require paperwork (study away, employment, athletic, pre-operative, for example) are an exception. Additionally, there is sometimes a charge for labs, procedures, and immunizations. See the Insurance and Billing for more on this topic. A reminder that for students on the Macalester-offered United Healthcare Student Resources insurance, all services received in the Hamre Center are covered at 100% with no out of pocket costs.

The medical team is currently made up of this crew! We also host Family Medicine residents and Adolescent Medicine fellows from the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Dr. Steph.

The Hamre Center does not offer walk in appointments. However based on availability we may have same day appointments available to check please call us at 651-696-6275.

If you are more than 10 minutes late for your appointment, you will be asked to reschedule out of respect for other students with appointments.

Yes, but you may have to pay out of pocket. Current charge for physicals that include paperwork is $100. Like all Hamre Center charges, if you are on the the Macalester-offered United Healthcare Student Resources insurance, you won’t pay any of that fee out of pocket. If you are on outside insurance, you pay the charge to the Hamre Center (it will show up on your Macalester account) and then submit for reimbursement to your insurance company (call your insurance company first to ask if this is a covered service).

We can support you! The Hamre Center utilizes a Health at Every Size Approach. The Health at Every Size approach involves an alternative to the weight-centered approach to treating clients and patients of all sizes. The HAES® Principles promote health equity, support ending weight discrimination, and improve access to quality healthcare regardless of size. Health should be conceived as a resource or capacity available to all regardless of health condition or ability level, and not as an outcome or objective of living. Learn more about The Health at Every Size® (HAES®) Principles – ASDAH.

What does this look like during your visit at the Hamre Center?

At the Hamre Center, you can expect your provider’s approach to include the Health at Every Size model. This means that you can request not to be weighed at the Hamre Center. The Hamre Center will only require you to be weighed if they are working with you to prescribe a medication where your weight influences what dose of medication would be prescribed – such as emergency contraception., etc. In this instance, taking a patient’s weight is important as the Hamre Center wants to be sure that medication is prescribed at an effective dose. You do not have to know your weight, this can be collected without telling you. Hamre Center providers will not discuss weight loss or gain if this does not fit with your goals for the visit. Providers can also discuss eating problems and disordered eating with you during your visit, and connect you to appropriate resources as a continued source of support for you. Finally, the furniture in our lobby is meant to accommodate bodies of many shapes and sizes to ensure you are comfortable while you wait for their appointments. 

All members of our medical provider staff can meet with you and either continue medications you started at home, initiate new prescriptions, or talk to you about ways to integrate medical and counseling care for your mental health. Learn more about mental health medication services.