Clinical Health Requirements
This webpage is for students completing the clinical experience portion of the following health science programs: Nursing, Physical Therapy, and Physician Assistant. If you are an incoming student, please click here to visit the health requirements webpage.
- Students are required to be clinically health compliant PRIOR to starting their clinical experience and maintain their health compliance status throughout their experience(s) (submitting updated records to the CHIP center and clinical site as applicable).
- The deadline to submit required health records to the CHIP Center and clinical site is determined by the faculty clinical coordinator of the academic program.
- Students are responsible for submitting health records to the CHIP Center AND clinical site(s).
Please submit proof of the following to the CHIP Center and clinical site:
- Tuberculosis (PPD) screening within 1 year of clinical end date*
- Physical exam within 1 year of clinical end date
- TD/Tdap vaccination within 10 years of clinical end date
- Varicella (Chicken Pox), (must satisfy 1 of 3):
- Vaccination (2 doses)
- Immunity (positive titer including lab report)
- Physician confirmed disease date
- Hepatitis B, (must satisfy 1 of 3):
- Vaccination series (3 doses)
- Immunity (positive titer lab report)
- Signed declination**
- Annual Flu shot or signed acknowledgment and declination**
- Annual completion of the Health Insurance acknowledgment.
Important note: Clinical requirements may vary by clinical site. Please contact your faculty coordinator for site-specific requirements.
*Nursing students see NUR specific drop down for TB requirement.
**Only permitted for clinical sites that accept declinations; check with your faculty clinical coordinator and contact the CHIP Center for the form.
- Daemen Clinical Health Form*(stamped or signed by provider)
- Flu Shot Acknowledgment and Declination Form (electronic form)
- Flu Shot Acknowledgment and Declination Form (paper)
- Official Health record from a provider’s office (stamped or signed by provider)
- Official Health record from an online patient portal
- Health record from an employer
*Daemen PA students participating in the didactic phase of their program are required to submit the Daemen Clinical Health form. Part 3 (physical exam) MUST be completed and signed by a medical provider.
- Online (preferred): daemen.edu/healthupload (take a photo or scan and upload)
- Fax: 716-839-8230
- Office: Yurtchuk 116 (The CHIP Center)
- Convenient location within 1 mile of campus
- WNY Immediate Care offers physicals, TB testing, drug screenings, and more for an out of pocket cost. Insurance is not accepted for this service.
- Please call about additional services immunizations offered.
Great Lakes Physicians Services
- Vaccinations Offered: Hepatitis A &B, Japanese Encephalitis, MMR (Measles, Mumps & Rubella), Meningitis (MCV4), Rabies, Polio, Td/Tdap, Typhoid, Varicella (Chicken Pox), Yellow Fever.
- Great Lakes Physician Services also offers school physicals. Please visit glphysician.com/occupational-health for more information.
- Cost: $50 visit fee. Insurance is NOT accepted. Immunization costs must be paid out of pocket. Cash, check, and credit card accepted. Call for cost of individual vaccines.
- Address: 462 Grider Street, Suite 116 Buffalo, NY 14215
- Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am- 4:00 pm. By appointment only. No walk-ins.
- Phone: 716-898-4153
Passport Health of New York State
- Vaccinations Offered: Hepatitis A&B, Influenza, MMR (Measles, Mumps & Rubella), Meningitis, Polio, Pneumonia, Rabies, Tdap, Varicella (Chicken Pox), Shingles (Zoster), Yellow Fever, HPV, TB Skin Test, Japanese Encephalitis, Typhoid.
- Cost: $25 visit fee. Insurance is NOT accepted. Immunization costs must be paid out of pocket. Cash, check, and credit card accepted. Call for cost of individual vaccines.
- Address: 2805 Wehrle Drive, Suite 2 Williamsville, NY 14221
- Hours: Monday - Thursday, 9:00 am- 5:00 pm. Some weekend hours available. Call for specifics.
- Phone: 855-729-2479
Travelers Health & Immunization Center
- Vaccinations Offered: Typhoid, Tdap, Hepatitis A & B, MMR (Measles, Mumps &Rubella), Meningitis, Polio, Varicella (Chicken Pox), Haemophilus, Influenza B, Japanese Encephalitis, Shingles (Zoster), Rabies, Pneumococcal.
- Cost: $40 visit fee. Insurance is NOT accepted. Immunization costs must be paid out of pocket. Cash, check, and credit card accepted. Call for cost of vaccines.
- Address: 100 College Parkway, Suite 260 Williamsville, NY 14221.
- Hours: Monday-Friday 9:30 am- 2:00 pm. By appointment only. No walk-ins.
- Phone: 716-631-0920
Please note: this is not an exhaustive list of clinics in the area. The resources listed above are included due to the immunizations offered, cost and proximity to campus.
Students can email health@daemen.edu to request a copy of their health records.
Please review the drop down menu for program specific details.
- Nursing students participating in an external learning experience are required to complete the linked TB assessment. This assessment will be reviewed by the CHIP Center team in place of an annual PPD test. For more information, please contact your faculty clinical coordinator.
- COVID-19 vaccine requirements vary by clinical site. Please check with your clinical coordinator and clinical site for more information.
- ALL nursing students (including students completing the program online) participating in an external learning experience are required to be clinically health compliant.
- As a reminder, the CHIP Center does NOT fax or mail immunizations to your clinical sites.
- COVID-19 vaccine requirements vary by clinical site. Please check with your clinical coordinator and clinical site for more information.
- Letters of intent must be sent to your clinical site prior to the clinical compliance deadline set by your clinical coordinator. For more information, please contact your faculty clinical coordinator.
- As a reminder, the CHIP Center does NOT fax or mail immunizations or letters of intent to your clinical sites.
Typhon
- PA students utilize Typhon during the clinical portion of the program to track progress during rotations. Typhon also tracks some health requirements for PA students. As a result, the CHIP Center will update Typhon with the immunization records you submit.
- Typhon will notify you when a requirement is expiring or past due. Please submit an updated record to the CHIP Center ASAP for that information to be updated.
- "Immunization" on Typhon = Tuberculosis Screening
Other information
- COVID-19 vaccine requirements vary by clinical site. Please check with your clinical coordinator and clinical site for more information.
- Hepatitis B declinations are not permitted by the PA program.
- Letters of intent must be sent to your clinical site prior to the clinical compliance deadline set by your clinical coordinator. For more information, please contact your faculty clinical coordinator.
- PA students are REQUIRED to submit the Daemen Clinical Health form. Part 3 of the form(Physical Exam) MUST be completed and signed by a medical provider.
- As a reminder, the CHIP Center does NOT fax or mail immunizations or letters of intent to your clinical sites.