"We still have a ways to go," says psychiatrist Winthrop A. Burr '65, a longtime practitioner at UHS. "We're hoping there will be an increase in staff. Who's going to pay for it is always the question."
"We need more staff so we can provide more services," Burr adds. "College students need things to be available on short notice. They need to be seen fairly intensively for a short period of time."
Burr concedes that appointments have not always been easy to come by.
"I think things are better for students now," Burr says. "We were always pretty responsive in an emergency way, but people had to wait a number of weeks for a second visit."
The report recommended that students with more serious problems be able to receive weekly visits for three or four months.
But Kadison says this is not feasible for all patients.
"We can't promise people they can be seen every week," he says. "We have limited resources."
UHS' standard procedure has set lengths for specific appointments. An initial visit to UHS can last one hour, but subsequent visits can be anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes.
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