Employee Health Center

The UW Employee Health Center in EH&S provides clinical services for UW personnel not employed by UW Medicine medical facilities.

UW Medicine medical facility personnel receive care from their respective UW Medicine employee health clinic (below).

UW Medicine employee health clinics:

The UW Employee Health Center in EH&S provides care based on medical management requirements of work activities.

Examples of work activities include research involving biohazards, animal research care and use, scientific diving, lead and asbestos, and work requiring respirators. 

The Employee Health Center provides clinical services that help prevent work-related illnesses, such as health screenings, ongoing medical surveillance, case management for exposure evaluations. If your position requires screening, surveillance, or preventive care from the Employee Health Center, your supervisor or HR manager will let you know.

These are some of the specific services the Employee Health Center provides:

• Audiogram review and standard threshold shift notification
• Respiratory medical evaluation and clearances
• Animal research and care health screenings and clearances: animal use medical screening (AUMS).
• Medical exams and clearances for work involving hazardous materials, select biohazards, potential for zoonotic disease
• Scientific scuba diving medical exams and clearance
• Hepatitis B vaccinations and records management 
• Immunizations to comply with specific work-related requirements
• Tuberculosis screening and surveillance
• Project-specific surveillance and safety counseling
• Influenza vaccination (if required to meet a job-specific requirement)
• Post-exposure evaluations 
• Blood pressure screening
• Smoking cessation referrals