Sonoma State Offering Low-Cost Health Exams

Sonoma State University is offering low-cost health exams on Tuesdays and Saturdays between Oct. 16 and Dec. 15.

The annual low-cost exams for well adults and children are available through SSU's Nursing Department's Family Nurse Practitioner Program.

Nursing faculty supervise the exams by Family Nurse Practitioner Program students who are registered nurses enrolled in the Master's nursing program.

Available are physical and mental exams and screenings, blood pressure checks, vision and hearing testing, urinalysis, hematocrit for anemia, cholesterol testing, and pap smears for cervical cancer.

The program also offers a complete medical and health history and identification of risk factors.

The services can be used for annual exams, sports physicals, pre-employment physicals, camp physicals and Class II DMV licensing physicals.

Copies of the exam records are given upon request and mailed to private physicians and agencies.

Costs of the tests vary between $25 and $60.

To make an appointment, call SSU's Nursing Department at (707) 664-2466 Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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