UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, August 29,1994
5A
Watkins will benefit from fees
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
As President Clinton struggles to pass health care legislation in Congress, KU students have already approved a $15 increase in the student health fee for the expansion and renovation of Watkins Health Center.
Students approved the increase in Spring 1994 after Student Senate voted to put the issue on the ballot for Student Senate elections. Student health fees are now $86 a semester.
Jim Strobl, director of student health services, said construction on the $5.5 million project would begin in May 1995.
The expansion will bump up the number of examination rooms on the first floor from six to 26.
Strobl pointed to an architect's drawing of the expansion and explained that each physician would get an office and two examination rooms. With two examination rooms, a nurse could be taking the blood pressure of a student in one room while the physician examined a student in the other room, he said.
Watkins Health Center
Year Physician Visits Total Visits
1983 15,229 49,127
1984 29,713 95,848
1985 30,833 99,461
1986 31,193 100,623
1987 36,714 188,432
1988 36,194 116,754
1989 30,941 142,905
1990 39,408 131,373
1991 41,291 137,834
1992 44,971 142,818
1993 49,255 183,840
we're trying to become more efficient." he said.
On the second floor, additional gynecology examination rooms will be built. Renovation of current space will expand the room for counseling and psychological services.
The urgent care department on the first floor will add six beds to the current three. Strobl said
Strobl said that when Watkins was built in 1972, its designers didn't anticipate the flood of students that would use the health center today.
The problem at the health center
was that the building was built as an in-patient hospital," he said. "Today, it's the biggest doctor's office in Lawrence."
Srobt said that from 1983 to 1993, student visits to Watkins Health Center tripped, but that enrollment in those 10 years increased only slightly.
The increased demands on Watkins prompted Strobl to ask fellow members of the Student Health Advisory Board to recommend a $15 student fee increase to expand and renovate Watkins. The board is made up of student senators, faculty and a representative from Watkins.
Student senator Jill Bechtel said that although Student Senate voted to put the issue on the ballot, many senators were skeptical about the raise.
"Initially, there was a lot of concern about whether it was justified," she said.
Student senator Ken Martin said one concern was that most current students would be paying a fee for a facility they would never use.
But Martin, who voted for the bill, said he was counting on student altruism to override that concern.
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