How it works
Call the number on the back of your Porter Card or start a visit in the health portal. A licensed clinician can assess symptoms, give self-care advice, send a short-term prescription to a pharmacy near you, and tell you plainly whether something can wait until Student Health reopens or needs urgent or emergency care now.
What it's not
Telehealth doesn't replace in-person care for anything that needs an exam, a test, or stitches, and it is not for a mental-health emergency — for that, call the 24/7 crisis line or 911. It's the bridge for the 2 a.m. "is this bad?" question.
In and around Porter Falls
The Porter Student Help Desk in Founders Union 118 is the single place to start when it is not obvious which office owns a question.
The practical details
When: Any time the Student Health Center is closed. Good for: Minor illness and injury, medication questions, whether to go to urgent care or the ER. Cost: Included for enrolled students; no copay for the call. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Porter Student Help Desk (Founders Union, Room 118). Call (715) 555–0120 or email help@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.